Why the village has to be prepared for COVID-19

The blatant truth is that nobody is ready for the coronavirus. No country is ready or was ready for the pandemic. As new cases of the coronavirus spiked on the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the world was not ready for it. The world has seen doctors and anesthesiologists in developed countries look helpless as people succumb to the virus. In Bergamo, Italy, they are calling it the apocalypse.

I feel apologetic to our kinsmen in the village. This is due to the measures that have been put in place to slow and flatten the curve of infection. The virus is already creating havoc even before it lands. Funeral ceremonies, dowry negotiations, and market days have been halted. For a common villager, these are what define village life. It is a pandemic that is creating sorrow and misery where it visits.