nature does not discriminate but society does. essay
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The unprecedented outbreak of novel coronavirus COVID-19 has stretched the frontier of human capacity to combat an emergency situation. Before the emergence of this virus, we had not often been forced to face the fact that human beings are hostages to nature. The present world has witnessed many classifications of human beings. This classification was done on the basis of wealth, human resources, technology, atomic energy, even on the basis of culture, and so on. Moreover, the terms ‘developed society’, ‘developing society’, ‘least developed society’, and ‘underdeveloped society’ crystalize this classification. But this lethal COVID-19virus, infecting indiscriminately, reminds us of the principle of equality. It infects people from all classes (!), people from all countries regardless of their status, health, wealth. However, it teaches us many things. It has given the environment a considerable pause from human intervention. It has stopped some cruel wars existing in the world. It teaches us the cleanness of body and mind. It sets some people to pray to their God. It makes us understand that there are things which human beings can’t grasp because of their superficial knowledge, or their health, or their fame, or their pride, or their wealth. The most important lesson of COVID-19 we have found is that it does not discriminate while it infects people. It does not discriminate between a president and a beggar, between rich and poor, between a servant and a boss, between an inmate and a free person, between an asylum seeker or migrant and a national, between a stateless person and a citizen of a country. It has infected us going beyond the so-called classifications of the modern world. So, it can confidently be said that this virus keeps us all busy with the measures of protection from this virus. It does not know who are migrants, or refugees or stateless persons. Governments have also been very busy developing precautionary measures and with the treatment of infected citizens – but each is more concerned about the health of their citizens – those who have the nationality of their country.