Mairi Eid Mairi Marzi

In January 2020, news reports began to circulate of a new respiratory virus spreading in Wuhan, China.  What initially appeared to be a problem limited predominantly to China, soon became a global issue.

The World Health Organisation declared a global health emergency on 30^th January, and on 11^th March, a pandemic. The situation has continued to dramatically escalate: at the time of writing, there have been 43966 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 939 deaths, 217 people are critical and 12489 people are recovered in Pakistan. It is estimated that 20% of the population is now living with restricted movement. 80% of people are outside in the markets and streets.

How does the response to the coronavirus pandemic differ from our response to other global health challenges, i.e. climate change?

·   1. Technology’s role for facilitating communication during lockdowns and for distributing public health information: i.e. government distributed text messages, or Instagram’s ‘stay home’ feature.

·  2. Education considerations: the impact of closed schools, cancelled exams, online teaching and assessments; establishing new best practices;

·  3. Cultural considerations: the impact of the cancellation of many national cultural events, the likely postponement of the Olympics and the ramifications for all affiliated sporting bodies; the impact of closed museums, cinemas and public events of many kinds on our cultural lives and identities; the impact of cancelled conferences on ongoing academic discourse and knowledge exchange.

Above all these effects Eid is about to come and the people who were asking for Rs.12000/ from Ehsas programme as imdad, they are the first fine to go for shopping. Now no one is poor, no one needs ration, no one needs imdad. People were shouting that they don't have rozgar (work), they are dying for hunger. Now at once no one is hungry. Everyone's pockets are full of money now.

Yesterday when I was passing by the market to buy some grocery for the home, It was amazingly crowded even that I could not go forward on my bike. Small kids, young ladies, youth and even old people are exited(dying) to do shopping for Eid. Some of them had parked their car far from the market because there was no parking near it and going to the shops in a hot sunny day. People are gone mad for purchasing things as they are going to be finished. People used to do short timings in the offices that they are having fast but for shopping there is no fast and unlimited timings for shopping. For work we need short timings but for shopping we don't. I just want to say that don't play with your health and your kids and grand parents health.

We know its " Mairi Eid Mairi Marzi" but you can save other to be effected because your health is connected to the health of the people around you. If you don't want to think about yourself then think about others. Enjoy Eid at your home and be save.