We will soon be half way through 2021, but the dreadful menace of COVID –
19 deadly virus continues relentlessly to haunt the entire world, the whole
of mankind.
It persists to be a very daunting and unpredictable scenario, no one
knowing what is next in store. Even the scientists and experts seem to be
dazed and lost in these uncertain times.
In India, just as we were trying to believe that the worst was over and
normalcy was returning, we are hit with yet another wave of the vicious
kind, which has yet again thrown everything again out of gear. And we know
not how many more waves of this pandemic are yet to come and when, if ever,
this nightmare will end.
For the school going children the online classes has been a thing they
least expected, and they know not when they will resume their school life
which cannot be replaced by any other form of learning. For the toddlers
who may have been gearing up for their first nursery classes it is still
worse -- missing the wide world outside during their formative years.
We have lost so many friends and loved ones to this pandemic, without being
able to bid them farewell due to the restrictions of the so called SOPs in
force. We can only pray for our beloved ones who departed in various
countries around the world.
In our lifetime we have not witnessed such a tragedy, never one of this
magnitude, which has struck the entire globe, sparing no corner,
distinguishing no caste, creed or your financial status. Places of worship
and the Temples of Justice have also been invaded.
The pandemic has affected the entire of mankind leaving everyone perplexed
and dazed with no answers but only questions galore, while the scientists
are on their job and the virus confusing them every now and then, by
striking in different variants.
Nobody knows what lies ahead with the future ever so uncertain. Even being
debated now is the efficacy of the vaccines that have been launched to
combat if not restrict the virus.
The global economy has taken an unprecedented severe beating while
businesses all over have had to brace the brunt with many small
establishments having to close shop.
Ironically, in Goa, the only thing almost unaffected has been the very
lucrative narcotic trade and also the world’s oldest profession -- both
seem to be merrily thriving defying the pandemic.
Family functions and community occasions all have had to be restricted as a
precaution. Buying the right gift for an occasion had been always an
arduous task but during this pandemic a pair of face masks has become the
ideal gift one can offer.
While everyone’s earnest hope is that life returns to its normalcy, we can
only pray that it so happens and this catastrophic nightmare ends. May it
be soon.
Aires Rodrigues
Advocate High Court
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Ribandar Retreat,
Ribandar – Goa – 403006
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