IMAGINE LIFE AFTER COVID-19

IMAGINE LIFE AFTER COVID-19

I can’t recall how many weeks we’ve been enduring physical distancing unless I actually sit down to think about it. The days seem to blur together, and the time at home seems similar today to what it was yesterday, and to the days before that.However, if this is what we need to do to rid ourselves of COVID-19, then so be it. We will continue self-isolating and maintaining physical distance from others for as long as it takes.I often wonder if things will ever be the same as they were before this pandemic. While I can’t be certain, I imagine they won’t. One of my hopes is that we as a human race will reevaluate the life we used to live and prioritize what is important, such as quality time with family and friends.we talk about Imagine life after COVID-19, there is urgent need to talk about life after the lockdown. It is difficult to imagine that anyone of us can return like before. Shops  & offices will slowly limp back putting up a brave front and expending all their energy to ensure that they survive somehow. The government has yet to share a blueprint for revival and recovery of the stricken economy. Reassuring noises have failed to comfort the most distressed segment of the population—the daily wage earners and those employed in the unorganised sector, landless farmers and millions of migrants rendered refugees, helpless and ‘stateless’ overnight.

There is no clarity how the fragile supply chains will be maintained, restored and repaired in the absence of those who wood and fetch water to make the cities buzz. Will they return? Or, will hunger and unbearable discrimination drive the stigmatised poor back into a life of bondage in overcrowded cities? How will ‘social distancing’ unravel once school, colleges, universities, offices and factories restart—not with 50 per cent staff but in full steam? Transport will remain a major challenge. When will trains and interstate buses resume regular services? It’s great that some arrangements have been made by some governments to bring the migrant workers and students back home.

But, logically, all such persons will have to be put in quarantine. It appears that even if there is gradual relaxation in lockdown, the unfortunate interruption will last more than three months after the lockdown is lifted. Neither the central government, nor the state governments can be faulted for this. Minor and major glitches apart, they have done the best under the exceptional circumstances. 

However, this doesn’t mean that all is well. Political partisanship and communal prejudice have eroded the credibility of many leaders and parties. Abject sycophancy of senior bureaucrats verging on servility is shameful. There is not a squeak of dissent, or pointing out a lapse that could result in mid-course correction. Plenty of back-slapping and chest-thumping; basking in the reflected glory of the prime minister’s radiant Mujza, his cabinet colleagues are content with cameo appearances most of the time.  

The greatest disappointment has been the judiciary. To be precise, the Supreme Court. There was a time—and how long ago it seems—when the public discourse was focused on judicial overreach. Now a days, it is more apt to talk of masterly inactivity of the bench. It is in rarest of rare cases only, that their lordships are stirred into action. Those not well versed in ways of constantly evolving contingent jurisprudence are left puzzled by some recent decisions of the apex court. 

Now, even a one may point out that the courts seem to treat different individuals  before law. . One would like to submit humbly that it is at times like this that judicial oversight is required most. Specially, in a federal system like ours where conflicts may arise between the states and the Centre about the implementation of policy.  

It’s imperative for the nation to be united in war against this deadly virus. But this certainly doesn’t mean that we should all the time blindly follow the leader like a herd of sheep. Nor can the Pakistanies allow themselves to be browbeaten into submission before superstitious fanaticism. There are legitimate apprehensions about unnecessary surveillance. Not only by government agencies authorised to do so  but also by vigilantes claiming to be supporters of the regime. Thank God, lynch mobs have not been rampant lately but volunteers of social organisation/NGOs have been active and visible at many places ‘helping’ the authorities impose the lockdown effectively. I also believe that several subtle changes will occur as a result of COVID-19. Following are some of the smaller changes that I anticipate will occur after COVID-19.

• Wearing masks: As a patient with a chronic lung disease, I joke that I was wearing masks before they were cool. Kidding aside, a popular discussion on the Pulmonary Fibrosis News Forums is about the awkwardness of wearing masks in public. Forum members have supported one another when this was difficult in the past. Going forward, I think that life after COVID-19 will see a lot more masks, and people won’t think twice about using them or seeing others wearing them.

• Reduction in physical contact: I’m an extrovert who loves people dearly, and I relish in the joy of a good hug from friends and family members. It is common in Muslim Cuntries to extend a hand for a handshake, especially when meeting someone for the first time. I can’t help but wonder if this type of physical contact will change after COVID-19. I think people will be more reluctant to have physical contact with others, and we’ll see a reduction in gestures such as hugs and handshakes.

• Responding to a cough: Unfortunately, many patients with IPF also suffer a debilitating cough that can turn heads in public, based on the assumption that we are contagious. Following the pandemic of a global respiratory virus, I can only imagine the stares that those of us with chronic cough will receive. Fear might grip those who hear this cough, and they might keep their distance from us for a long time to come. Perhaps this isn’t a bad thing, especially for those of us who are immune compromised.

• Annual fears about the virus: Some predict that a “COVID-19 season” might become similar to our annual cold and flu season. I can’t imagine the fear that people will have about this each year, at least until a vaccine is available.

• I think it is Nightmare for daily wages People and well settle families as well to restore their lives on prvious Pattran their is need a time Period.

we need work side by side with government and domestic people leave differences and Personal Banifit .I imagine that life will be very different after COVID-19, which in some ways might be a blessing. Other changes, however, might be difficult to deal with, especially when compared with life as we knew it before the pandemic.imagine that life will be very different after COVID-19, which in some ways might be a blessing. Other changes, however, might be difficult to deal with, especially when compared with life as we knew it before the pandemic.

we do work like a Nation and will overcome the restoration Inshallah.