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This Pandemic - Look Ahead

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This Pandemic- Look Ahead 
One Editorial or Opinion one after another on the new normal and how we human beings are having to fundamentally reshape our lives. Every manner of expert from health to economics is plugging away on this. From TV Channels to all forms of the media. This world is truly upside down. Doomsday is the new scenario, only the degree of the gloom varies. I have a different point of view. Honestly. I first concede times are difficult and traumatic. This is a reality. Economies have collapsed or compressed drastically. Readjustments and acceptance is a reality. But. That is the essence. But. 
We should hope in the essential resilience of the human spirit and the tremendous impact and potential of modern technology. We should have the patience and perspective on this. Maybe a time period of twelve months to eighteen months more. Atleast start to think on these lines. I am not suggesting anything too positive or that the previous happy days, life as we knew it, shall be back again shortly. But that in the near future solutions will certainly emerge. You will find this thought process changing you from within. Being a trained development banker has one advantage, you learn to have the patience to wait for the plan to kick in over a period of time. And then the benefits. Along the way, we human beings will have to and shall innovate, draw and redraw roadmaps, readjust, develop and redevelop medicines and medical care processes and ultimately then a new normal will certainly emerge. It has to. And it will. 
A mental journey through the previous centuries only proves this. Plagues and Viruses have impacted us before. Some of mankind’s best efforts in the arts and civilisation have come through prolonged periods of widespread disease too. 
Even here we walked into this. Straight up. If we had not been besotted with ourselves and our ideological blinkers, this pandemic would have been handled differently by the world. To begin with, China would have severely curtailed its international flights to minimise its spread. And maybe the Italians would have focused less on combating the racial part and focused more on the medical care and strategy part. We forgot to unite on this as one world and went back to our national borders or state borders immediately. That is now over. We can continue to debate but that is for the future. 
Individually and as a people Now we have to focus first on survival and sustaining ourselves through the next twelve to eighteen months. And to maybe re-calibrate somewhat our lives as the world will evolve, after the new medical drugs and medical care are developed and start impacting positively. My request is to hold onto this thought and faith. Have the patience to ride it out. Eighteen months could be twenty four months too but maybe twelve months more too. We have to have this underlying faith in us and our abilities. We have the intelligence and technology to take it on, so it will occur. 
Then we can celebrate and move on with our lives as once we knew it. But let us Preserve ourselves till then and take the full safety precautions as mandated but don’t over do it. Wait for the near term. With faith. 

PS - Just had to randomly put these words down. DKK.

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