Dear Covid-19

Dear Covid-19,

We are aware that the chances of you reading our letter is quite slim, given your packed schedule of wreaking havoc around the globe. We're quite convinced of your meticulousness, for it is quite a task to enter a body, infect the whole of it and continue spreading fast and thick, across vast cities and towns. It takes you two whole weeks to find your presence in the human body. So, the question is, how do you manage to hide from the probing gaze of the avant-garde medical devices of the twenty-first century? Your competency poses a deep threat to humankind. Despite the aspersions cast against you, we are thankful for showing us the ground reality, however hard-hitting it may be, and the shortcomings we need to rectify.

You have balanced the scales too, at least for a while — for now nature flourishes in its wild glory, as we humans are trapped, struggling indoors. We now understand how highly it has cost us to restore the nature we have destroyed, after decades of torture we have inflicted on it. You have done what no one else could do — you taught us a hard lesson, made us taste the bitter truth. You brought justice to nature.

However, we believe that it is extremely important to bring to your notice the fatalities — the plummeting world economy, the dire condition of daily wage earners and migrants, and the whole world turning against each other. We know your anger won't cool down too soon, for you have wrongs to right and nature's grievances to redress, but we request you to come to a halt now. In return, we promise to mend our ways and adopt strategies that won't hurt or cause the environment to complain in future.

Yours sincerely,
The Repenting World