Student of SJMC Sem.-V
School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Lockdown 2020, a big title which everyone even our coming generations will remember forever. The worldwide biggest Pandemic COVID-19 has left us in such a difficult situation that we are now badly influenced by the way we work, communicate and lead our daily lives. Due to this all the non-essential businesses are shut down which lead them to incur heavy losses. While many of the sectors have shifted their work online like the IT and education sectors. But, the life of lower strata of society have been adversely affected. Their livelihood and means of earnings have been badly affected.
The pandemic has created a lot of insecurities and uncertainties across the world. In a survey, it was reported that 65% people are now suffering from mental problems of feeling loneliness all the time. People are now suffering from various health issues by doing all the work from home all the time. Apart from this, the businessmen are having heavy losses which most of them do not know when they will be able to recover. Many employees who have been working tirelessly day and night are being provided half salaries by their companies. In some sectors, there is no limit of hard work the people are doing right now. But their work is not getting appreciated or getting recognition. Due to which there have been reports of suicidal cases. A report from Indian Today came few months ago that a student of 7th class, son of a farmer committed suicide because his father was not able to give him a smartphone for online classes. So, this is a pertinent question we need to think right now that is this the direction our youth will have to go in the current situation? The global pandemic has already taken the lives of millions of people. The lockdown has badly affected the people mentally and emotionally.
There are certain good things which also happened during this lockdown. The climatic change, the environment, the global warming situation have changed in the positive direction. We can see now that our earth is healing itself. People are more focused about health and hygiene, the way they live have changed now. Earlier, we rarely saw people wearing masks and using sanitizers. But, now these products come under our basic necessities of life. People are now more focused on maintain their immunity system.
We are in the midst of unpleasant circumstances and it is the necessity to move forward in harmony to fight this menace.