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COVID 19: REINVENTING MORAL, ETHECAL, SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANE VALUES

COVID 19: REINVENTING MORAL, ETHECAL, SCIENTIFIC AND HUMANE VALUES

The pandemic Covid 19 has brought an wonderful chance to us to reevaluate the moral values and ethics in interpersonal relation and our relation with ethics, science and religion vis-a-vis each other. And this is true not only at individual level but also at community level. First take revival or rediscovery of ethical interpersonal relation. The pandemic has enabled us to think about ourselves and about community to which we belong at the same time. We realized that if we keep distancing physically we are not only protecting us from others but also protecting others from us. We realized that mutual   protecting both us and them is serving a public good or common good; our individual safty trancends and  community sefty and vice verca. Both individual good and public good come together with our concious efforts. The most striking part is that this concern is not only for those who belong to us or to ahom we owe our relationship but also for those who we dont know. There is of course an elements of fear of being infected and this fear is one of the major reasons to think in this way but there is nothing wrong in this as we are anxious for well being of all. This oneness become more obvious when people feel grief for the sickness and demise of even unknown as people feel the loss is the loss of whole society. This feeling of unison of grief of others is a compelling factor behind the meeting of individual and public good. We have found connected with others, both whom we know and don't know. And all this connectivity and mutual awareness is in the age of distancing when we are adviced to remain cut off from other fellow people. Despite being physically distanced which was incidentally and also wrongly  coined as social distancing we are more aware of our surrounding and wishing well wishes for all. This situation has also provided us an opportunity to see the ethical values of manual and other works which were till now not being valued much, for example the works done by the medical personnels, petty sanitation workers, poor chaps delivering our online orders, police constables, small grocery shoppers, low paid office staffs, drivers etc who have  enabled us to remain inside our homes. We have got an opportunity to revalue the importance of works done by petty people whom we usually don't value . We have got an opportunity to look within ourselves to find out what is our real self, whom we are, what's the purpose of our life, how should we find the real importance of ourselves, what types of persons we should be. All such questions have been agitating all of us while sitting before TV, watching videos on YouTube and reading news articles and nevigating social media . All the time despite being physically disconnected we have been passing through the trauma of others. And when we are ourselves in real happenings of trauma we feel we are one part of larger trauma of community or society. 
   Here there is one interesting facet of the pandemic. Throughout the pandemic larger sections of people continue to rely on science. Of course there have been some bizare incidents of superstitions and highly illogical actions ultimatly all have to fall in line with science. We accepted the reality readily that the covid is not due to some sin but it's due to virus which origin has been being debated at length  from the perspective of science. Religious leaders have also accepted covid as an act of virus and not as an wrath of God. There has been unanimity that covid can only be dealt with medically and medical science has proved it's worth again. There has also  been a fierce debate all over the world about the availability of vaccine to all free of cost. It's has been unanimously accepted that it's the ethical duty of governments to vaccinate all people without charging them. It has also been argued that it's the ethical responsibility of the rich nations to help in vaccination of poor countries and this argument is being extended within the countries that the richer section of population has obligation to ensure vaccination of poor section. Questions of human rights and right to equality for getting vaccinated have taken central place. Demands for removing curbs put by IPR are in this context and in this way fruits of scientific development and technological advancement have been deeply integrated with the ethical issue of public good or common good.
      In this way covid 19 pandemic has provided us a chance to be more ethical, more value oriented , more scientific , more rational, more humane , more morally responsible towards fellow citizens. If we strive to keep this spirit alive, we continue to live for these reinvented  human values we can succes in making this place a better place.

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