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Nobody knows the variations of this virus, in fact in all this time, nobody really knows jack about this virus. It’s unpredictable: can be mild, asymptomatic or fatal. Variables of old, young, babies, climate, fitness, medicine? The data changes weekly.
How do we account for fact that virus hit Pakistan in Feb & despite high cases, our fatality rate is relatively low? Even if figures are underreported, how underreported can they possibly be? How long can you hide morgues or hospitals overflowing? I’m asking, I don’t know myself.
We have already failed at social distancing. Step outside DHA & posher localities, you rapidly realise no such thing exists. How can it, in a country where average household size is 7 ppl, cramped living, sharing of toilets & bathing facilities in neighbourhoods, not enough water
And so for people who have nothing else, no preventive resources, no whatsapp groups, Twitter, webinars, no money, no jobs left & no community but the community of God, prayer is all that remains. Many of us unfairly create binaries of mullah-minions rushing to mosques. Its wrong
It’s wrong to be pissed at people who seek comfort in mosques in all this darkness. But it’s right to be so pissed that our state invented the idea that religion cannot rightfully exist outside the mosque, and that God cannot be fully found at home. Now they reap what they sow.
And even as somebody who reports on figures all the time, in the absence of any completely reliable data, and with studies and variables changing every other day, some days all I’m doing is praying for a miracle too.
