Coronavirus Compassion
Like many around the globe, we all feel our lives disrupted lately with the ongoing pandemic. What is happening has been freaking and it is mind-boggling that no one, not one in the entire world, could ever predict the gravity of the situation earlier in the year. The intensity is changing by the day and if you are exposed to different time zones like I am with my family in India, then you go to bed with one set of news at night and wake up to an entirely different data in the morning.
I wonder where we currently are in the graph – at the peak, peaking, flattened? It is all a big guessing game. What we in the DC area are going through might be something that NY or Seattle went through few weeks ago? Which means we will likely go through the trajectory that Italy currently is in? Unless…as I understand from the validated sources ….unless we alter that trajectory.
Here are some of my takeaways that I consider valuable from this situation:
1. This is a classic scenario of part-reactive/part-proactive decision-making. At each stage, we guess based on the situation what to do next. We react based on anxiety and concern surrounding us. So yes to halt some of those immediate social gatherings, minimize large group interactions, stock up on basic essentials. Then pause and proactively reconsider others – travel plans, what more can we do collectively to contain the virus, stock up as necessary.
2. It is a sad global situation when our frontline workers – the already overwhelmed doctors and the public health system – are faced with such a dilemma in life! I pray that they get the strength – physical and emotional – to face their patients who may be most vulnerable at this point in time.
3. Covid19 is really testing the spirit of humanity and surprisingly, it has become a great equalizer! There are so many other ‘Cs’ that I can substitute here –
– Considerate when it comes to stocking up. Is Toilet Roll really going to save us all?
– Community care is a great step amidst such crisis. I am supporting ‘Second Story’ for now and hope you can find your cause.
– Common message from around the world for all of us to be optimistic, cautious and prepared.
– Collective effort – after all we are all connected with this globally so lets be more careful here.
– Compassionate of how we treat a person next to us just in case he/she has an ‘accidental’ cough?
What is your C going to be?