Before COVID-19, the world had been progressing in its usual way. Most of us were leading our lives by following standards already set in place. People were having fun with friends and paying family visits to their loved ones without being afraid of contracting a contagious malady that can be this fatal for them. Official and unofficial gatherings were in full swing to address essential business agendas and spend leisure time away from the former respectively without any fear. Our thinking patterns had not been affected in the past by such kind of pandemic. The quality and limitations of our health and related systems were not known to the masses. Educational institutions were operating the way they had been for ages. Traveling from one place to another place was being done in simple ways.

Post COVID-19, when the information regarding the spread of disease surfaced, our life patterns have been changed. The lives of people have taken a track which was never followed before. We have kept ourselves from going outside and any meet & greet, thus avoiding physical contact not only with humans but also non-living things in line with SOPs delivered by WHO. KITS were developed and sent to the affected locations. Media channels have been updating about the total number of cases being reported, recovered, and deaths from a deadly virus. All of the official and unofficial meetings were called off, to come up with SOPs other than conventional ways of convening meetings, till further notice. Lockdowns have been observed to curb the spread of disease and to avoid the collapse of the health system. Economies have gone slow down. Plenty of businesses are negatively affected and headed towards layoffs. Central banks took initiatives to put a hold on unemployment being triggered. There have been controversies in the air since day one that COVID-19 doesn’t exist, spread by people who might be insentient enough to not recognize the sensitivity of the pandemic, which has not only misled patients but also cost many of them their lives. This invisible virus has changed the thinking patterns of humans in a way that we have become afraid of humans to save humans.

Many of the affected countries have overcome the spread of this virus but many haven’t yet, especially developing countries. No one can tell with conviction that how long will we have to face this unprecedented way of leading a life. This uncertainty has made a large percentage of people in developing countries become carefree about the spread because providing for the family is now their top priority. Tourism has been adversely affected as traveling to places has been abandoned till circumstances are normalized.

This tiny virus, which can’t be seen from the naked eye, has altered the way the world had been operating for centuries. Earth has started fixing itself. It has divulged the true face of governments asserting the soundness of critical systems to human survival. It has made the world think of how a little virus can put into question all of the technological progress been done so far. Adverse effects of junk food negatively affecting the immune system have also attracted the attention of field experts. People become cognizant of food upgrading their defense system against foreign bodies. True faces of societies that follow principles of moral corruption and made bucks out of this have also been unmasked.

In a nutshell, this crown-shaped virus has brought few positive results as well as a number of negative ones. We have to follow the relayed instructions in its letter and spirit to stop the spread and regain the charm lost in adversities brought by COVID-19. Thank You.