![]() Governments, district administrations and philanthropic organizations are putting in their best efforts through preventive, curative, regulatory, social and human interventions. ![]() For them, the fear of dying of destitution and starvation is more powerful than the fear of dying from the corona virus. Their desire to reach their distant homes far outweighs any fear of death from invisible viruses, which have been a part of their lives for many years, coming from some of the poorest states of India. The virus and its containment has dislocated supply chains across agricultural, industrial and service sectors, made stock markets crash, and halted economies, ranging from humble domestic economies to mighty global and national economies of scale.Īs always in any emergency, the hardest hit are the poor and most vulnerable – in the case of India, they include first and foremost the migrant labourers, who suddenly find themselves homeless, wage-less and starving. Apart from the virus’ capacity to indiscriminately kill people, the inevitable preventive measures of social, economic, production, education shutdown, are equally lethal in killing livelihoods and occupations across the economic spectrum, more especially targeting the survival of the weakest. But never before has a virus invasion and its containment resulted in such a multi-pronged pincer attack on the entire life structure of populations. ![]() ![]() No doubt, there have been pandemics before, and viruses have wiped out millions of people across the globe. Governments across the world are presently working in emergency mode, concentrating all their energies in conquering the invisible, unknown, lethal virus which is heaping death, shutdowns and chaos everywhere. ![]()
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