During the widespread of a pandemic, you have noticed the citizens of your city to be very disciplined and committed to get victory over the direst situation.As Suraj write an article on Patience wins pandemic.
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“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” — Joyce Meyer
Hello world. We are now in the infancy of April and deeply entrenched in the battle against the global pandemic known as COVID-19. And the hard truth is things are looking much grimmer than we anticipated they would be.
America has surpassed the rest of the world’s count of coronavirus infections. The death toll is rising rapidly and is expected to get considerably worse over the next couple of weeks. Millions of Americans are out of work and unemployment claims have reached record highs. We have done all we can to busy ourselves, keep ourselves entertained, and continue with some degree of normalcy in our daily lives, but the truth is normalcy has reached a point of near impossibility. Every day of social distancing, isolation and quarantine feels like a slow drift on a never ending conveyor belt. We all want to believe with every fiber in our being that an end is in sight. But with every new report announced and every name that we now have to reference in the past tense due to this virus, it becomes increasingly more agonizing to wait this moment out.
I am more than sure that no one, irrespective of sociopolitical status, gender, age or ethnicity, had plans of having their 2020 put on an indefinite pause. A new year brings about the prospect of new possibilities and the oncoming of the spring season is symbolic of bloom and growth. The world is collectively experiencing a wilting of our plans, goals and in some instances, a decaying of our loved ones. None of this is easy to reckon with and for the vast majority of us, we have never witnessed a calamity of this magnitude in our lifetimes. And though it almost seems asinine and/or condescending for me to be writing about the value of us maintaining patience in this time, being that none of us have a magic wand or crystal ball to either diminish or predict what our immediate future will look like, patience in this moment is beyond a virtue; it is necessary for our survival.
Here’s some additional and personal context for anyone who may be reading this: for those of us tasked with writing the nuances of the times we are in, I can assure you that most, if not all of us, would rather be focusing on other topics. Which is not to say that every journalist, essayist, columnist, poet etc. spends every waking minute writing about COVID-19, but it is to acknowledge that whether we are specifically writing about this pandemic or not, we are immersed in it and to a large extent are obligated to scribe where we are in this continuum of time.
What I can tell you is that upon beginning my contract with The North Star, I pitched a variety of concepts for the editorial team to consider that I have for the most part opted to put on hold to give language to the now. I desperately want to be able to focus on ideas that have no correlation whatsoever to this pandemic, but to do so would be dishonest to my genuine thoughts and concerns, and as the great Nina Simone once said, “it is an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live.”
And so as a writer, I have to exercise patience in my output. As a husband, I have to exercise patience in understanding a new dynamic of me and my wife both working from home and having a single bathroom and similar bathroom breaks. As an arts educator and organizer, I have to exercise patience every time I get on Zoom with a community of folks I’d rather be fellowshipping with in real life. As a citizen, I have to exercise patience with a federal response that can be best described as tragic comedy. And as a human, I have to exercise patience with my faith in humanity, and believe that at some point in the very near future that we all will begin adhering to the directives given to save lives. None of these exercises in steadfastness are simple, but what is the alternative other than to defy common logic, disregard my own personal health and put myself in grave danger?
“Patience, the ability to keep calm in the face of disappointment, distress or suffering, is worth cultivating. The virtue is associated with a variety of positive health outcomes, such as reducing depression and other negative emotions.” — Anna Goldfarb