Ongoing learning this season of life
As I started looking around almost a month back and started interacting with friends and colleagues across our nation and beyond, one thing I realized that, I was afraid and there was a “pandemic of fear”. And most of these fears were rational and logical. I am talking about committed health care professionals like all of us, engaged in good work. But a logical rational fear, due to various reasons. But beyond the rational fear, soon there was an “epidemic of panic”, that has continued but has not changed much. Why this ongoing panic? Because of the myriad of information coming from the nations that are severely affected, and this information creating a deep sense of anxiety, fear and panic among not only the public but also health care professionals. This also emerges from a feeling of uncertainty. We, in the countries that are yet to have a huge burden but locked down to prevent and mitigate, are overwhelmed by the predictions and future potential of how bad the spread could be.