By announcing lockdown in countries, are we able to overcome the virus? Are we able to find a cure? Are we able to control death? No! The fact is that due to the nature of this virus, that it is asymptomatic and highly infectious and contagious, we are helpless. Instead of using courage to face the disease, and to make intelligent choices and take the right precautions, we have permitted fear to create panic in our subconscious. Of course, we will not accept that it is panic that has guided our decision to lockdown our economies. But that is the truth. Far more damage than the virus will do, is the crisis that will be caused by the economic outcome of the lockdowns across the globe. Fear has made us not only shut our borders, which has led to shutting down of airlines, hotels, malls, businesses, but has also caused the loss of jobs to daily wage earners like taxi drivers, construction workers, and the likes.
What has fear done? In an effort to save a thousand lives through total isolation, we will ultimately lose several thousand lives through unemployment. No doubt there is a crisis, but the consequence of fear is making us take wrong decisions. Fear destroys our wisdom. It stops us from seeing that while we are trying to protect people from Coronavirus, many more will die of hunger. The economic recession that we will cause from the current decisions inspired by panic, will last for a very long time without actually stopping the virus from killing those it attacks.