Staying home during this pandemic bliss or bane?

Pranitha
3 min readSep 28, 2020

An unruly bed with chips scattered, an overflowing laundry bag with an overloaded medical cabinet. The Covid-19 news running 24/7 on the T.V and an employee glued to his laptop screen. Sounds familiar right? Yes, this is the scenario the Covid-19 pandemic brought to us. Hey folks!, today I’ll be sharing a wonderful story with all of you!. Staying home during this pandemic bliss or bane?, in my opinion it is definitely a bane. We humans have completely forgotten the human interaction and are stuck to the electronic gadgets the whole day!. Instead of getting knowledge from the books, we have firmly declared that the computers are the all time genius! and BC, i.e, not before Christ but before Covid-19!!it was the dead opposite of what is happening now!. Learning, studying, teaching everything is online and with this we are watching the screen the whole day!, which isn’t good for our eyes. I’ve also got some blue-light filtered specs which protect my eyes from the direct light of the screen!.The blame is definitely on the pandemic which has locked in the 4 walls that surround us. We humans are social animals and must be free to move and not locked in a tight cage!. The pandemic hasn’t only locked us all but has made us all lazy as we don’t want to do exercises daily. Even though there are apps that provide us with exercises everyday, we don’t want to do it as we don’t feel the personality and we are busy with our online work ;p. Since restaurants, malls, gyms, cinema theatres etc are closed, the people who work there are facing a great loss and have lost their jobs too!. We can’t even go enjoy ourselves with our friends nor can we enjoy outdoors!, isn’t this ridiculous!. Can we all stay even an hour without our devices?, no. Don’t we become restless for not looking at the devices?, yes we do. So, we know how hard it is to stay home for a long time!. Medical waste is increasing day by day and the people who have opted their jobs as deposing the medical wastes, their lives are in grave danger!. The medical waste is also increasing the amount of pollution and garbage in our locality. Our vacation plans would be doomed because of the pandemic so, we must think we are on a vacation at home itself! and how is that?, well it’s quite simple. Dreaming!!. So, we have the ability to dream infinite wonders and endless possibilities right?. Everything which was offline is now online!, I’m fed up with this and want to change as soon as possible to BC not before Christ but before Covid-19! life. I felt online classes aren’t as effective as offline classes as sometimes the children have internet connectivity issues and the same with the teachers. Teachers may find it hard to manage all the students in the class. So, all in all, online classes can’t be so reliable as it won’t be as efficient as offline classes but we are still managing the situation and making the best out of it!.

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