The irony is that 8 billion people have literally created a pause in their life. Most economies are either under lockdown, emergency or like Singapore calls it, “circuit breaker.”
Let us analyze the scenario. Is the virus real? Of course, it is! Is it infectious and contagious? There is no doubt about that. Is it killing and wiping out the entire population? No! But fear is already wiping out millions in our mind. It is a False Expectation Appearing Real that millions of people will die from this virus. If that was to happen, indications would have appeared by now. We can see that the virus is not going beyond killing a few thousand people and declining. Instead of using our intellect to discriminate and analyse, we are letting our fear make us paranoid by thinking that the virus will annihilate the human race. There is no doubt that the virus is real. It is a fact that some people are dying. But fear is causing us to jump from the frying pan into the fire. We are already being tormented by the virus. Fear has made us lockdown our economy. More people will die out of unemployment and starvation than out of COVID-19. The facts are plain and clear, but fear does not let us see the light of truth. It creates a fog of stress, worry, anxiety and the false expectation that we will all lose our lives due to the virus has made us choose to shut down our economy only to create a far bigger crisis.