A Pandemic : Lesson for Mankind

Wuhan, a city in China’s Hubei province, is a commercial center for the country. A few months back most people didn’t have had any idea about the city, but the outbreak of the CoVID-19 virus in the world put the city into light. Everyone accused China of spreading the virus, which was obvious as the first case came in picture in a city of China, i.e., Wuhan on December 2019(According to World Health Organization).

But then also, there are many doubts and questions on ‘From where the virus came into existence?’ in my opinion there are two theories, without much evidences to withstand.

According to the first theory the virus originated from a lab, where an incident took place, which was a top secret Bio-Chemical facility of China situated in Wuhan city.

The other theory suggests that it originated from a source i.e., bats from where it started. But does this CoVID-19, commonly known as Corona virus affected people that much, as it affected our environment. Does the virus really affected people as deep as it affected the Mother Nature. Instead this virus turned out to be both a blessing and a lesson for humanity.

According to the reports from all over the world shows that social distancing measures adopted by most governments have caused many beaches around the world get cleaned up. This happened because of the reduction in the waste generated by the tourist visiting the beaches. Likewise, noise levels have fallen significantly in most countries. The decrease in the use of private and public transportation, as well as commercial activities, has caused a reduction in noise. Also air pollution has dramatically reduced since governments ordered citizens to stay at home to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Main industries as well as other regular activities have ground to a halt. 

The above figure shows the reduction in the amount of NO2 released (a) before and (b)after the corona virus restrictions in Europe.

Therefore, in my opinion this panedemic is more of a lesson to humans that we depend on nature and we need it, whereas nature is independent which does not rely upon us to heal it, so Think About That !!!