Adapting to crisis

Letter April 03, 2020
The best we can do is to make cleanliness our first priority

ISLAMABAD: It has been almost a month since the globe has been blanketed by the Covid-19 outbreak. It has changed the world completely. All around, people have adopted the basic habits of personal hygiene. The habit of washing hands for 20 seconds has now suddenly become common among people, which most of us lacked before. People are disinfecting their surroundings on a regular basis for the past one month. The fear of the deadly virus has instilled cleanliness habits in us, which will prevail even after all this ends. We should start learning how to live in the midst of pandemics like this because we have to accept that the contemporary world is prone to such health-related problems due to weak immunity, unhealthy eating habits and lack of organic food. Global warming has caused diseases to mutate, so if we are not careful these pandemics may visit more frequently in the future. The virus is particularly scary because of how quickly it spreads to the lungs. The only way to not falling prey to virus is to start adopting the practices of social distancing and self-quarantine. The best we can do is to make cleanliness our first priority, do something productive during isolation, find effective ways to manage our daily life smoothly under quarantine and urge the state to focus on the betterment of the healthcare system.

Hamna Aslam

Published in The Express Tribune, April 3rd, 2020.

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