Are we really going ahead?

Virus, Lockdown, Infection, Quarantine, Isolation, Co-morbidity---these are the words that have been dominating the world for a couple of months. Earlier, we had a arrogant feeling that how a Micro-Sized Virus could cause unrepairable harm to such powerful human race! We thought that we could be able to crush it in a blow! But ironically we are now struggling with the massive strike of that Micro-Sized Virus which we thought before to be inferior. Being unable to bear the viral strike, the world is now observing Lockdown which is slowly becoming a part of our lives. Lockdown had brought a mixed sense of feelings in the lives of people. Many of us has begun to feel sad and lonely during the Lockdown. In earlier times, students would have had gone to school, working people would have gone to work and everything would have been just the way it was. But the Lockdown changed it all dramatically. Similarly , we also had another superior feeling that our progress in the field of Science had reached its zenith. News of human beings conquering the unknowns, its progress in Artificial Intelligence and even journeys to the Moon or Mars filled the newspapers thoroughly. Nowadays, when the television is switched on or if a newspaper is read we find that they are overflooding with news of Covid-19 infections, people's deaths around the world and tons of penniless people who are facing great misery. The virus which is a trillion times microscopic than a grain of sand is now posing big threat to the planet ! 'Science had reached a certain height in its progress." It's true. But a note should always be kept in mind that there is still a lot to go ahead, there is still a lot to know, there is a still a lot to discover. We are still hopeful that the new journey of Science would be resumed by the development of Covid-19 vaccine.

99.99...Is it enough?

Let's start the blog with a story. 

Once, a man washed his hands with a sanitizer. A virus came near him and saw him washing his hands with a sanitizer. He knew he would be finished if he wanted to attack him. He was about to retreat when he saw something. It shocked him but at the same time he was also pleased. He saw in the label of the sanitizer. It was written---"99.99% GERM PROTECTION" in bold letters. The virus laughed. "99.99%? Only?" It said. So there was still 0.01% chance. He wanted to become the virus in that 0.01% who would cause harm to that person. He risked his life and succeeded. The perosn fell ill.

In these times everybody uses sanitizers from time to time. But the question still remains that does sanitizers give complete protection? It might very well be said that sanitizers protects us from germs as well as it could do, but there is still 0.01% chance of us getting infected. 

Now, in there pandemic times, there is another question that lingers in an individual's mind if mentioned about sanitizers. We all know sanitizers protects us from germs. Sanitizers are packed in bottles. Now, here one might wonder that santizers are present only at the inside of a bottle. What about the outside? 

For example, we might touch the sanitizer bottle conatining a virus from the outside. Then while washing our hands with the santizer conatined inside the bottle, we wash away the virus. Then? Don't we have to close the bottle of the sanitizer? That same bottle of sanitizer who's outer surface contains a deadly virus? Won't we be infected? 

So, even if we might think that by sanitizing our hands, no germs could affect us; WE ARE WRONG...It would be inappropriate to say that we should not wash our hands with sanitizers, but we must also keep this in mind, that there is still a 0.01% chance of getting infected. But at this point of time, you might wonder that the chance of getting infected is only 0.01%; which is a very small percentage. But who knows, the next victim of the virus might be you yourself! In these times the main focus is to remain immune and be safe. I don't mean to say by all the above discussions that sanitizers are useless in terms of protecting us from the virus. We must wash our hands from time to time. We must follow all the safety rules confined to us. Only then could we free ourself from this invisible prison.