Ways how ignorance to the rapid spread of corona virus.
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I stared at the picture above (shot at Kasimedu on Friday) for a long time, wondering why these people crowd and jostle despite the threat of contracting the novel coronavirus. Since I couldn’t make sense of it, I asked a psychiatrist (Dr N Rangarajan) and two psychologists (Saras Bhaskar and Mini Rao): Is it a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery? Not really, said the experts, it’s just ignorance wrapped in arrogance inside apathy.
The virus has infected more than 14 million people across the globe and more than a million in India, killing more than 6.1 lakh worldwide and more than 26,000 in the country. In Tamil Nadu, the number of infected people is more than 1.7 lakh and casualties are nearing 2,500. Almost everyone knows someone who has been either ill or is dead due to the virus. Yet we go out there, masks cradling our chins, to rub shoulders with strangers and let the virus have a bigger pool to thrive.
The virus has restricted us from leading our normal lives for a long time and sooner than later we have to get back. But what explains the wilful endangering of everyone by crowding? Let’s examine the three attributes the experts pointed out: Ignorance, arrogance and apathy.
Ignorance? After the authorities and the media beaming messages 24×7 of the virus and the need to stay safe? Turns out we are ignorant not just about the virus, but about how little we know about it. In other words, we are ignorant that we are ignorant. Look no further than the WHO’s changing statements over the past six months on how the virus spreads. First, they said the virus spreads only through contact, direct or indirect; then came aerosols, and finally some studies said it could be airborne.
Treatment protocols have not been any less inconsistent. Hydrochloroquine — endorsed by the US President Donald Trump and Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro — has moved from a cure to a health risk; favipiravir was caught up in false claims; convalescent plasma therapy has had mixed results. While we know the virus primarily affects the respiratory system, several Covid-19 patients have died of multiple organ failure. Incidents of ‘silent hypoxia’, when apparently healthy people infected by the virus moved rapidly from being asymptomatic to critically ill, have made doctors look at the neurological effects of the virus. While experts have come to agree that we are ignorant of several ways the virus acts, many of us are not aware of this poverty of our collective knowledge.
This ignorance leads us to arrogance of two kinds. One: I won’t get it. Two: I don’t care if I get it. While younger, healthier people are prone to the arrogance of the first kind, some of the elderly have been exhibiting the second. Mini says she is baffled by her 80-something neighbour going out every day to the market. She says it’s also conditioning that abets this arrogance. You’ve been going to a particular market for 20 years and you just can’t think about going anywhere else though there are safer places in the neighbourhood to buy things.
The experts I spoke to agreed that at the root of such wayward behaviour is apathy exacerbated by a sense of numbness and frustration that the lockdowns have brought about. Not caring about oneself is as much apathy as not having concern for others to whom we may spread the virus. Saras calls it “a complete lack of mindfulness”. Till collective wellness enters our consciousness, Kasimedu and such places will remain playing fields for the virus till a vaccine sounds the final whistle.
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We know that the disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which spreads between people in several different ways.
The virus can spread from an infected person’s mouth or nose in small liquid particles when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing or breathe. These particles range from larger respiratory droplets to smaller aerosols.
Current evidence suggests that the virus spreads mainly between people who are in close contact with each other, typically within 1 metre (short-range). A person can be infected when aerosols or droplets containing the virus are inhaled or come directly into contact with the eyes, nose, or mouth.
The virus can also spread in poorly ventilated and/or crowded indoor settings, where people tend to spend longer periods of time. This is because aerosols remain suspended in the air or travel farther than 1 metre (long-range).
People may also become infected by touching surfaces that have been contaminated by the virus when touching their eyes, nose or mouth without cleaning their hands.
Further research is ongoing to better understand the spread of the virus and which settings are most risky and why. Research is also under way to study virus variants that are emerging and why some are more transmissible. For updated information on SARS-CoV-2 variants, please read the weekly epidemiologic updates
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