Of Virus and Vermin
Man has seeds of his ruin in himself. Man is the worst enemy
of man
By
Mukesh Sharma
It was a cold day but very still. The
sky was clear and the sun had packed up for the day. Though roads were choked
with vehicles, none was plying. Traffic signals were blinking but there
was no vehicular movement - no honking, no screech of tyres and no
whizzing. It seemed that the time had stopped. Lifeless bodies of humans were
strewn here and there. The bodies with seemingly leftover sign of life could be
seen on the sidewalks in different postures. Groan, and grunts, moans and
murmurs, hiccups and hush could be heard in the midst of scary silence. None was
there to help out the dead or half dead. But still a few were holding hope
against hope hugging their last breath tenaciously unmindful of the fact that
the death is the great doctor that vanishes away even the last vestige of human
pain. Even death has a heart. When life betrays, death embraces. Despite all
beautiful landscape, wide roads and winding flyover, glittering lights, it
looked like a haunted city.
The horrific and heart rending scene
described above is not from any Hollywood movie but an imaginary scene of a
modern city hit by the deadly virus. An eye witness says that the
imaginary details are rather close to Wuhan city of China, an epicenter of
corona virus outbreak. The people maintain that this could be the probable
scenario if God forbids, next world war breaks out; it would be altogether a
different war - no boom or bang, no bomb or bloodshed but just
countless dead bodies of humans snuffed by deadly virus and vermin - a
weapon of future warfare.
The rumour is doing rounds in close
circle and social media that the China has cultivated the deadly virus called
as corona virus in its laboratory that mutates in human body only; it can
transmit through contacts as well as through air; it affects human body only
not any other animal. And as luck would have it, the virus got unleashed
accidently and engulfed the Wuhan city. And rest is history.
The sources reveal that a book
entitled "The Eye of Darkness"
by Dean Koontz was published in 1981. The author made a mention
specifically on page 352 - 353 of his book that China has developed a man made
micro-organisms named Wuhan-400 at its RDNA lab located at the outskirt of
Wuhan city. The book says:
"
Wuhan-400 is a perfect weapon. It affects only human beings. No other living
creature can carry it. And like syphilis, Wuhan 400 can't survive outside
living human body for a longer than a minute which means it can't permanently
contaminate object or entire place the way anthrax and other virulent
micro- organisms can. And when the host expires, the Wuhan 400 within perishes
a short while later as soon as the temperature of the corpse drops below 86 F.
Do you see the advantage of this"
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| The Eyes of Darkness |
Though the Wuhan city is the worst
affected, the deadly virus has reached to 120 countries across the globe as per
WHO report; it has already taken the toll of 4500 lives across the world so far
and still counting. Tens of thousands are reported to have infection and have been
battling for life. Besides Italy, France, Germany, Iran etc. who have already
declared emergency in their respective counties, America has also declared
national emergency. With reported deaths and rising number of infections,
US is shutting down - no social gathering, travel ban across border - all
schools, entertainment programme have been shut sine die. GDP of US has slumped
to 4 %. The situation is getting more and more serious with each passing day.
Further, WHO in its report no.51
dated March 11, has characterized the corona virus as "
"pandemic" - an epidemic that is geographically widespread or
throughout the world without containment.
However, an Australian scientist has
claimed to have isolated the virus and is nearing the solution to contain it. Even Germany and US are making such unsubstantiated claims. But nothing tangible has come out so far.
Now referred to as COVID 19, if this
virus goes controlled and uncontained, it may give rise to a cataclysmic
situation; it might further jeopardise the existence of humans on the earth.
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| Latest status of COVID 19 outbreak as per WHO report |
It won't be wrong to say that the
man has seeds of his ruin in himself. Man is worst enemy of the man. Robert
Burn rightly says:
Man's
inhumanity to man,
Makes
countless mourn.
