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Insensitivism

COVID-19 changed everything for us.

While it ravaged us emotionally, physically and financially, it also showed us 3 sides of  humanity - the Exploiter, the Exploited and the Messiahs.

While the first wave put us on high alert, boomeranged our sensibilities, helped us identify our priorities while showing us a new way of living; the second wave has been a harbinger of death and doom.

The positive cases sharply soared and people fell like a pack of cards in huge numbers. Amid the surge, the need for Medical Oxygen and Remdisivir injections grew manifold. While Messiahs in the form of NGO's and individuals continued to work relentlessly from the front-line without fearing for their lives, we, also witnessed the birth of vultures basking in their new businesses. Be it launching a duplicate essential medicine in the market or hoarding the medicines, medical devices, oxygen cylinders and selling them at obnoxious prices unaffordable to the common man. These black marketeers profiteered of people's miseries and vulnerabilities. The fact that they are scraping and bartering on lives does not deter them. They have clearly emerged out as the lowest scums of the society who need to be punished but our inept Regulatory System has failed considerably unable to even curb these exploiters and they continue making hay. To add to this mayhem, while strangers cremated the dead, the photographers sold the drone captured on-pyre dead bodies images at insane prices in the stock photo industry. 

Such disgusting levels of insensitivism!

Speechless.


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