Covid-19: Brought by the Sedentary Lifestyle and Suffered by the Working Class

Abstract

Why isthe Indian Government and administration so much alert to stop the spread of Covid-19? Is it because the Elite Group is under threat? If we look at Covid-19 outbreak in different parts of our country more than fifteen hundred people have lost their lives. Now let us look at another figure, in India8.8 lakh children under five years have died due to starvation or hunger in a single year, and at the same time we have vaccine for this, and that is food. Those in power do all that is needed just to prove that the one who died did so of natural causes, including resorting post-mortems to find remnants of food in the victim‟s stomach. It shows the class and social division of the Indian society. P.Sainath, in his book, „Everybody Loves a Good Drought‟, remarks how the 1994 plague in India got unprecedented media attention because unlike several other diseases, it couldn‟t be restricted to rural areas and urban slums. Thus this shed light on how India responds differently to health requirements based on the social and class locations of those affected. As the largest humanitarian crisis that India show was an emerging of a mass exodus of migrants who reverse migrated hundreds of kilometres for the access of basic necessities such as shelter and food. As providing preferential treatment to prosperous Indian citizens while they were evacuated from foreign countries, shows the discrimination against the underprivileged migrant workers. If we are fighting against Covid-19, we must at the same time not abandon other deadly diseases.