The Price of Myopia is Often Steep

 

While mentioning about myopia, I don't  essentially refer to the ones that have to bear the brunt of being short sighted, but more towards matters that we choose to be rather oblivious of. Consider the concept and practice of mass eviction. Whether it's in Ranthambhore or Marichjhapi, mass eviction hasn't really been unknown to one and all, but it's just the few of us that continue to remain in oblivion.

Now, similar regulations apply for the Punjab farm fires, as well. News reports state that farm farm fires in Punjab have been sending smog signals to Delhi. The estimate according to a Hindustan Times report is stated to be around 17 percent, which is to say that the air quality has been depleted majorly. 

On the other hand, we can under no circumstances rule out the protests at Thailand, or the extreme infighting in Pakistan. Possibly somewhere down there we are rejoicing the fall in the number of COVID cases since the past three months, from the month of July. Yet, is there a reason to rejoice fully? Have we reached that stage yet? 

Perhaps not. Maybe some amount of patience and an increased sense of perseverance would come to aid. More than that what's even more important is ensuring to a great extent that all of the informations that we share across is proved, authenticated, and then shared further around. 

What's more crucial for everyone during this eleventh hour and to ensure that we aren't preparing a death knell for ourselves is to remain safe in the upcoming times to come. As was being highlighted in the PM's speech today, if we think that the novel pandemic, the one that we can never ever thinking of befriending in the long run, had turned any less violent, we are highly mistaken..

If we do believe so mistakenly, then a heavy price has to be paid, and this price of remaining myopic would be really steep.