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Vol. 10 No. 4 (2023)
Journal Space and Culture, India-Tribute to Professor Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya (21 January 1936 - 29 January 2023)

Perspective

COVID-19: An Ontological Human Circus?

https://doi.org/10.20896/saci.v10i4.1273

Published 2023-03-29

  • Venkat Rao Pulla

Venkat Rao Pulla
Foundation Professor of Strengths-Based-Social Work Practice, Brisbane Institute of Strengths-Based Practice; Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University, Inaugural Fellow, Australian College of Researchers; Editor-in-Chief (joint), Space and Culture, India & Life Member, Australian Institute of International Affairs

Abstract

Geopolitical and national interests predominate, given that a war between Russia and Ukraine would result in a daily economic decline in both countries. I am convinced that countries, not their people, wage wars. People have other concerns, such as food and a virus that has apparently not yet left these countries. Several plausibility arguments are presented in the first section of the paper, which addresses the persistently debated virus's origins. In contrast, its leadership continues to flounder. Numerous healthcare workers perished on the front lines, but there was scant coverage of their deaths during the first year of the pandemic and none since. The elderly, the frail elderly, and even the young are the most severely affected by the pandemic deaths that have occurred over the past two years and continue to occur. Current ontology is concerned with the controversies, hypotheses, and theories surrounding this damned insignificant RNA and its capacity to cause such catastrophic harm to humanity. Indeed, the issue is its disputed and contested origin. After two years, it appears that the graphs, countries, and news that are updated every minute on the Worldometer have not changed. However, something has changed; for example, countries have ceased to report the incidence of COVID-19 deaths.

Keywords

Ontology Revisited, Covid-19 Circus

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