Learnt to enjoy the silence around us due to frequent lock downs resulting in the stoppage of movements of humans and vehicles, and reduction in noise pollution level.
Learnt that, too much of anything is not good and the mass movement people and vehicles and destruction of natural resources have caused immense damage to the global environment
Learnt about many health related matters required to protect ourselves from such dangerous viruses like Corona
Learnt about the methods of engaging the children productively for the whole day during the enforced imprisonment.
Learnt to lead life without social events, guests and domestic assistants.
Learnt many medical terms related to pandemic situations.
Learnt various ways of protecting ourselves from falling victims to the Covid 19 virus .
Learnt to be empathic to the sufferings of less fortunate fellow human beings when they were deprived of their earning so suddenly and for a prolonged period without any hope of restarting their normal work lives.
Learnt about the need to save money for crises period.
Learnt to realise our total dependency on various types of service providers and the significance of their economic role.
Learnt the need to train the family members in division of labour to manage the household works when our domestic helpers were not available.
Learnt to do minor repairs related to plumbing, carpentry and electrical works due to restrictions in the mobility of service providers related to these works.
learnt to understand the hard work of mothers related to food , childcare, elders care, health care, house hold work, education management etc.,
Learnt to understand the miseries faced by the of daily wage earners families.
To top it all, the nonstop coverage of the migrant worker’s hardships during their exodus from their work places to their native places by the media had shaken the collective conscience of the civil society. It was heart moving to learn about their working and living conditions and their exploitation by their employers.
Learnt about the methods of personal and environmental cleanliness to be followed throughout our lives
Learnt to appreciate the hard work and sacrifice of the front line workers like police, health workers medical teams, conservatory workers and the media persons who have been dealing day in day out with the Corona pandemic.
Learnt about the need to have savings to rescue us during crises and the economic ways of using resources.
Learnt about the living in peace despite constrains of many types due to family togetherness.
Learnt to thank God for even small mercies especially when we happened to see the visuals of migrant labourers .
Learnt to be kinder towards less fortunate people and be generous in extending assistance to them through various means.
Learnt about the loopholes in our health care system.
Learnt about the need to develop our immunity level through taking care of the quality of our diet.
Learnt about the value of homemade food .Total dependence on it led to improvement in our digestive system and protected us from stomach disorders and helped saving considerable amount of money
It is true that repeated lockdowns and absence of public transport restricts our freedom of movement and loss of earnings for daily wage earners. Staying within home for a long time with enforced idleness causes depression and affects mental wellbeing. Nobody would have expected that the whole world would be affected in various ways by this one virus resulting in large number of deaths and paralysis of the economies. But we have learned to manage crises through knowledgeable ways of with grit and determination. This virus has treated rich and powerful nations and underdeveloped nations, richer and poorer sections of the people and all the sectors of the economy alike. It is indeed is a virus of extraordinary nature endangering the lives of people taught us the need for international and regional cooperation in taking coordinated efforts to drive away the virus from this world
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