Bill Gates’ Biggest " I told you so " Moment : Outbreak of Covid-19

By Ayush Kumar

2020 was off to a great start. I'm sure you all made some resolutions and you're sticking to them. But all of a sudden, I badly need a rewind button to 2019. This urge of me has further become pugnacious ever since Drake and future released the song: Life's good. Life has been totally the opposite of good. So, you might have got a hint for today's topic, we're talking about Covid 19

In a single word, it is, catastrophic. We were warned by Bill Gates about a major pandemic outbreak in 2015 but he's a computer guy, he doesn't know anything about healthcare and medicine.

Well, here we are today, reflecting all the loopholes present in our healthcare system. But this pandemic hasn't gravely affected just the healthcare, economy is the patient heavily blowed by the ill preparedness of humans as well. Till time, the vaccine is developed for both the virus and the economy, death of human resources would take a big toll. The unprivileged are exposed to this fear of death, if not by the disease, then by the repercussions that this outbreak is going to have on the means from which they earn livelihood from.

Businesses are running out of money , government is running out of resources , which entangles me with the question that how ill equipped we are as a species in front of a virus which isn't even visible to a naked eye but has landed our Big Brother ( USA ) in such a predicament that despite of being a superpower they're impotent to contain and overcome this tribulation ?

In context of India, the exodus of daily wage earners, the underperforming economy, the hard-hit manufacturing sector adds up to one fact: If this outbreak isn't controlled, neither the economy, nor the fiscal position of our government would prove to be a stimuli. Lives over livelihood can surely be implemented for a month or two, but how would the people sustain their lives without food? Sooner or later they will move out of their houses to feed their stomach.

Hence a balance between lives and livelihood should be sought after.

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