We will soon be half way through 2021, but the dreadful menace of COVID “ 19 deadly virus continues relentlessly to haunt the entire world, the whole of mankind. In India, just as we were trying to believe that the worst was over and normalcy was returning, we are hit with yet another wave of the vicious kind, which has yet again thrown everything again out of gear. For the school going children the online classes has been a thing they least expected, and they know not when they will resume their school life which cannot be replaced by any other form of learning. We have lost so many friends and loved ones to this pandemic, without being able to bid them farewell due to the restrictions of the so called SOPs in force.
The pandemic has affected the entire of mankind leaving everyone perplexed and dazed with no answers but only questions galore, while the scientists are on their job and the virus confusing them every now and then, by striking in different variants. Even being debated now is the efficacy of the vaccines that have been launched to combat if not restrict the virus. Ironically, in Goa, the only thing almost unaffected has been the very lucrative narcotic trade and also the world’s oldest profession -- both seem to be merrily thriving defying the pandemic. While everyone’s earnest hope is that life returns to its normalcy, we can only pray that it so happens and this catastrophic nightmare ends. May it be soon.
