A few months back a very eminent doctor was discussing a topic which I happened to watch. Lockdown was still not totally called off. Among the medical practitioner they are aware effectively two views and two divisions.
One part of them were totally against calling off lockdown and one part of them were wanting to take off the lockdown step by step.
This doctor whose discussion I was listening to was saying. If this lockdown is to continue for days what would be the condition of the masses that are below poverty line, middle class,or lower middle class?? Who would provide their bare necessities of life ??Who would take care of their families??How long can the government provide for them??Our resources are minimum.
The doctor kept saying that for a country like India ,keeping people locked behind the door in the name of covid-19 is no way to save the population. They would soon be starving to death if not attacked by Coronavirus.
The workless or the jobless mass would cause a terrifying questions to the condition of India if the lockdown continuous for too long. The total financial system would face the huge blow on its face if lockdown has to continue.
A day would come soon when people would come on the road out of poverty. What would happen then??? Who would try to make those masses understand about social distancing then?? Who would make them where a mask then ???
It was at that time that this question started haunting me .....What is more important ??'life 'or a 'living '??
Our country India is an agriculture based land with people working and getting paid the same day. It is a land where most people survive from small businesses, low salaried private jobs..Most people are engaged in grocery, selling vegetables, hawkers, and transportation.
The majority classes of a country do not lead a life of extravagance. How can a middle-class society Man or Woman say that they won't work ,when they know that their little kid's name would be unlisted from online classes, if they don't pay their fees??
The total economic condition of a country would meet a sudden and rapid lockdown if you don't put ourselves in the working mode.
After listening to the discussion, I reflected on what the doctor tried to say. There are many people who are staying at home and even then getting Corona positive .At the same time, there are many labourers working all day under the sun but yet not getting a Corona positive.
But if that same labour had not come out to work ,he would not get a bread to eat that same day. So who would kill that labour???' Corona' or 'No food' ?????
This is where we must reflect upon..
What we must do is upto us... but wearing a mask ,maintaining distance and carrying out our daily activities at work or being at home is what we can do at the most...!!