Isn’t frailty and passing an inescapable human experience? Yet the overarching signs of this unchanging reality, which is viciously and aggressively demonstrated in the spread of COVID-19 worldwide, has driven mankind and the world in an unthinkable, almost absurd, conundrum.
Interestingly, the ultimate demise of human life remains a frightful reality. Its approach, whether swift or expected, is something every living soul has yet to learn to accept.
But while the unpredictability and finality of the experience is something every human person should always feelingly anticipate, it is not and should not be premeditated.
Inexplicable puzzle
The inexplicable puzzle that COVID-19 has created amongst people and nations – the desperation to get hold first of the cure, as well as the aggressive rejection of the same among those that view the disease as something crudely fallacious (an orchestrated deception that forms part in what they claim an agenda tied to “a great global reset”), notwithstanding the upsurge again of hundreds and thousands of new cases worldwide – remains miserably to date a baffling, unsolved global crisis.
A public concern and a political thing
Sadly, whether it’s because of our avowed poverty, or simply an undue consequence of what may be a gross yet camouflaged incompetence of our government for their apparent failure to secure and deliver the needed antidote, this permeating fear of becoming a COVID prey remains an overwhelming public concern. In fact, it is fast becoming a huge political thing because members of the opposition are now using the epidemic to hit what they claim as a “failed leadership” of President Duterte, particularly on its policies in its fight against COVID-19.
But that’s beside the point of what I really want us all here to consider.
If only I would not sound awkwardly fatalistic, maybe it’s about time for mankind to reexamine, and perhaps appreciate, the inescapable reality of human frailty. Yes, the often reckless and unexpected passing of life down to the corridors of the forgotten is a constant struggle we humans have yet to willingly accept.
COVID-19: Just another disease
What I mean is, since an antidote to COVID has already been made available globally, and perhaps by this time people and the nations have already mastered the methods and strategies on how to effectively prevent its spread, maybe it’s about time for the “real global reset” – that the nations of the world, the greater public, and the government authorities would begin to consider treating COVID-19 as but just another commonplace disease, just like any other more deadly and more dreary of sicknesses and diseases, humankind had to live with.
That in fact, the passing of life does come at any moment. As one writer aptly said, “life is fleeting and brief, and its appointment with death is an express closing moment of a lifetime.”
After all, without necessarily disregarding and mocking science, could it be that mankind may have just overhyped (because of social media) a really not so deadly (statistically at only over 1% fatality rate) disease?
A matter of personal choice
Don’t get me wrong. The minimum health standard being generally observed now – the constant washing of hands, the wearing of face masks, and maybe reasonable social distancing – may stay as a matter of choice. Not mandatory. Any more stringent measure than this will be altogether unnecessary.