Pages from World's COVID Diaries
“Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be.” - Sean Higgins March 2023 would mark three years of the COVID onset in India and the country-wide lockdown. Even though the signs were already visible as early as January 2020, the first official lockdown was announced and had commenced in the last week of March the same year. Initially it was to be for 21 days only. But soon the paradigm shifted swiftly, changing the well versed accustomed social norms followed around the country and the World as a whole until then. The Novel Coronavirus or COVID – as we all have come to call it quite fondly – has been, in my opinion, the most unorthodox, unbiased and undiscriminating mass assassin since the 1980s. It not only challenged the manslaughtering might of the HIV/AIDS and Swine Flu pandemics, but it also established itself as the subtle winner. Until it was too late, we never realized that we def...