write an article on how covid is grabbing our spirits desire and strength
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In the past few weeks, the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has gone global affecting almost all countries, societies, and health systems. It is disrupting varying spheres of our social, political, or economical lives. It is also intruding into our spiritual domain. Spirituality is the foundation of human existence and getting more attention in Global Health recently. Christina Puchalski et al. (2009) define it as: “Spirituality is that aspect of humanity that refers to the way individuals seek and express meaning and purpose and experience their connectedness to the moment, to self, to others, to nature, and to the significant or sacred”.
Despite the lingering uncertainty, COVID-19 silently offers us an opportunity to reflect on the spiritual impact it has on the world and our communities. In this broad sense, the spiritual impact is currently not unequivocally positive; however, I’m convinced that in the end, humanity, as a whole, can take a spiritual leap forward.
COVID-19 creates a worldwide threat but reminds us we are a global community
Diseases have often (though not always accurately) been linked with poor living conditions, social strata, or geographical regions/countries. HIV/AIDS has been associated with individual high-risk behaviour, cholera with poor hygiene, or TB with poverty. There are regional associations: Great Plague (17th–18th century) with Europe, Ebola with African countries, SARS with Asian countries, and MERS with Middle Eastern countries.
In its initial days, COVID-19 was associated with China, but in a short span, it has travelled the globe, crossing national boundaries without any visa needed. Irrespective of the pandemic stage, today it is everyone’s problem. It should thus leave no space for stigmatization of a particular country or ethnic group. However, it faces huge counteracting forces which push in a ‘non-spiritual’ direction: stigmatization, blaming, and scapegoating, capitalized on by populist politicians (and also sometimes linked to geopolitics, see for example the current US-China controversy). This goes totally against the idea of ‘we’re all in this together’. Prof. Addiss quoting Dr. Bill Foege (2012) in his article states, ‘Everything is local and everything is global. Global health is not ‘over there’—it’s right here’. COVID-19 has removed barriers of ‘we and they’, ‘here and there’, and stirs up the value of belongingness amongst us. It has demonstrated that it sees our globe as one single interdependent community, as strong as the weakest link. We have realised COVID-19 is the problem of ‘our community’—it is right here.
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ARSH
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