Covid-19 Pandemic and Hope

Hope is the driving force of every human being living all over the world. Many people around the globe are now struggling with an invisible enemy. It has rampaged the income source of the public shutting down the businesses and the office doors. Large scale business owners to the labors who rely on the day to day work have been  suffering  from insignificant loss of income to cover their daily living. Some rich countries have supported their citizens providing rations for the emergency period. However, there are many poor nations who have no sufficient resources to distribute their citizens, came under pressure of releasing the lockdown soon even the spread of the virus is on the pick. People have only hope to survive at the time of crisis.

The main responsibility of the government is to provide food and shelter to their citizens. Besides, public health and social security are major works to be maintained by the state. During the time of pandemic and natural calamities, the role of the government is crucial. The bacon of hope of the public relies on the action taken by the state. When the state orders millions of its public to stay home, the public needs must be taken care by the government. The state collects tax from the public to run the government, to build up infrastructures, to secure the border from the enemies.Besides, the government should look after the public health, their social security and protection of their rights. Rich countries have become successful to address the public needs at the time of lockdown. They carried out wide ranging testing and separating the infected one from the rest. It helped them the flat the curve sooner than they predicted. But those countries who have poor resources or have already been struggling with torn out economy can not provide emergency benefit to its citizen and also they lacked resources to carry out the wide ranging testing measure to the public. As a result, the ray of hope of the citizen of poor countries is gradually fading off than the citizen of the rich countries.

Why hope is significant at the time of pandemic? The answer is very obvious to many people, ' to survive.' Yes, we need hope to survive at the time of uncertainty of everything. Now, the world is facing hard time coping with economy, health and well-being of the overall population. Every nation is struggling to keep their public safe no matter how hard is it to run the state functional. The powerful nations of the world such as America, Australia, Germany, France, Italy suffered a tremendous loss of their citizens. Their state economy crippled with in a few months. They were forced to lift the lockdown before they actually flatten the curve of pandemic. They said,"their economy would be collapsed if they did not run the business. Millions of people claimed the unemployment benefit. Millions of people shut the doors of their business. Several people committed suicide when they lost  income to feed their family. However, there is still hope in the public that one day the scientists will discover the vaccine to cure the disease and the economy will bounce back. Businesses will be reopened and jobs will be back.

What about the people who are living in the country where the state economy is already collapsed? Do they have hope of getting support from the government? Of course 'yes'. They still have hope of getting better job, better profit from their business no matter how poor their country is. Hope is the driving force of every human being either rich or poor, healthy or sick, long or old. When the pandemic hit hard to the senior citizen, they also had the hope of getting cured and live some more years. There were millions of people in India who used to live in the street and railway station. Where have they been during the time of lockdown? How would they survive? How would they protect from  the disease? Although there are many questions unanswered, one thing is very certain. They are still living somewhere with hope that some day they will go back to the station and beg travelers to make living. They have hope that some day restaurants will reopened, and they will work as a dishwasher and make some money to buy food. They have hope that one day they will collect recycles to buy food for their dependents.

If people lose hope, they would not survive. Albert Camus wrote an essay "Myth of Sisyphus" having absurd character who disobeyed the God and was punished to carry a rock to the summit of the hill. Each time he comes closer to the summit, the rock rolls back to the bottom of the hill. He repeats the same action all his life. His repeated action looks absurd. However, the protagonist has hope to meet his goal. This story symbolizes the modern man. The modern man is living with hope of fulfilling his goal one day, but this never going to happen. Only thing that drives them is hope. During the time of crisis, natural disaster, pandemic, epidemic , the only medicine to survive is hope.