COVID-19: Much ado about nothing?

After frightening the whole world about COVID-19 virus and its unknown implications, we are slowly wondering whether it was yet another case of much ado about nothing or something insignificant. Only WHO can be blamed for its over reaction about something before it could study in detail.

No doubt a few lakhs the world over have died, but an overwhelming majority of it was primarily due to other major reasons. But the panic created by WHO’s blunder has destroyed the livelihood and lives of millions of people the world over. The number of suicides all over the world will eventually overtake the toll indirectly attributed to COVID-19.

WHO has proven itself to an ineffective organisation to be in charge of the health of human beings in this planet. Whether this immature false alarm was a genuine blunder or as a result of the over enthusiasm of a few to do something huge in their jobtime, remains to be investigated. The one and only positive result of this humongous exercise is that the whole world had a full dress rehearsal for something similar by a fatal pandemic if it happens in the next few decades.

Right now, WHO will disappear from the scene by shouting ‘Honey, I shrunk the World Economy’.