Human Values and behaviour in the Context of COVID-19

Abstract

The novel coronavirus disease or COVID-19 emerged at the end of December 2019. It has caused immense effect on the economy, human society, health system, human psychology, daily life and livelihood of human beings around the world. In India this deadly virus first attacked in Mumbai and turned to be a pandemic after rapid transmission throughout the country. During this pandemic thousands of people died due to the infection of the virus. The citizens of India became witness of an unnatural and heart throbbing situation which they had never seen before. In this adverse situation human values like faith, love, respect, affection, self-confidence, responsibility started to deteriorate and reached to the bottom line. Human behaviour is influenced by these human values. Naturally people's behaviour started to deteriorate towards others in this pandemic situation. They began to show disrespect to others, hatred and negligence to a corona patient, selfish and self-centered attitude to protect themselves only. In my opinion, most of us were compelled to show these type of negative behaviours at the beginning of this pandemic, because there was no vaccine and no treatment during those days. But today we have already spent almost one and half year in this abnormal situation and started to believe that COVID-19 does not mean death only, rather the probability of recovery from this disease is high if we follow some good habits and practices like hand-washing, wearing face mask, maintaining social distance, maintaining cleanliness etc. Now-a-days almost everyone of us is following these good practices and precautionary measures, because we have come to know that these practices will protect us from the coronavirus. Today we are all optimistic and confident that a day will definitely come when our beloved earth will be out of the adverse effect from this invisible enemy.