Black marketeers and profiteers- be aware this virus does not discriminates

Dr. VINOD KHANNA
4 min readApr 30, 2021

Black marketeers and profiteers- be aware this virus does not discriminate.

You may earn a fortune with your social dreams. Otherwise vultures too had become threatened species.

COVID-19 has changed life so significantly that it can sometimes be tough to remember what life was like without it. Social distancing, mask usage, and doing your best to stay home are all “normal” these days. You may be wondering as a result: When will the COVID-19 pandemic actually be over?

Experts swear this weird version of reality won’t last forever. Vaccines for COVID-19 have been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are currently being distributed.

The classified initiative of the government to seggregate innoculation , first to the Corona warriors, followed by the senior citizens , 60+ and then the middle agers ( 45–59) to the last class — the youth of India (18–44), who comprise more than 60 percentile of the India’s demography , is working fine.

Everything was going good till the third to end week of March 2021. The peoples despite warnings and hitches celebrated a very good and fearless holi in the last week and suddenly there was a news of IInd wave of Corona outbreak that took astronomical proportions in no time any one could imagine.

And this happiness was short lived as it could not be appreciated by the hoodlumps — the black marketeers and the profiteers.

The organised kissan squatting at the borders acroos capital NCR for around six montgs , included some NRIs from UK , Canada and neighbouring nations in the Mid January 2021, who were never checked for carrying the viruses. They roamed freely.

The fresh invasion of the virus probably originated through the route.

When the virus blasted in the shape of increasing coronagraphs, the beds in the hospitals went off availablity, the free oxygen in hospitals started running in mismatched quantity of supply vs the number of corona positives thronging , the medicines went out of stock , the life saving drugs became an easy source of making fast bucks, Ramdesivir became dearer and profiteers started not only duplicating or faking it, also started blackmarketing, that too at astronomical prices. Even an Ambulance , in Delhi Charges Rs 10000 / on bill for transporting a covid patient to hospital for a distance of 4kms (inset above). The antigen tests and the RT-PCR which became madatory, are a great stress on the labortories and a boon to profiteers… Great…indeed…

Making money is not bad but think that the Epidemic, no no ..this time pandemic, does not discriminate.

Maybe the families of the black marketeers and profiteers ,will be one day much more affected and they will then realise, that they loved money more than their families.

The Oxymeters and contactless infra red thermometers went into hiding for a premium price.

There is a news of the profiteers booking fake beds in private hospitaks ,for fake patients, to be alloted to the real patients at premiums. What an irony.

The otherwise common medicines for the seasonal viruses and flu also went off the shelves or not to be given OTC ….

The “jhola chhap” quacks to the top physicians became obscure consulting. The ques on the hospitals , both private and governnent ,started becoming serpentine to vanishing.

The only virtual consultations mode began taking a new route.

The common man is confused.

The cremation grounds have piled up corpses but hardly any relative seen to lit the pyre or to see how many bodies were burnt in one pyre and how much wood is used.

The situation is scary.

An image that never occured in anybody’s dream is a feature to watch openly these days.

Families and families have been wiped off and mostly there is hardly anybody in the society, their own left-out, even to put a lock on the properties and premises of those who departed unceremoniously this covid-exodus after buiding their dens through their lifetime sweats.

In the first wave last year in 2020 there was a control on the supply of essential commodities but 2021 is a step ahead, as normally said in Indian lingo, 19–20, the controls are gone. The rates are arbitrary for most of the essential commodities.

The people this time are more scared. The roads are barren. But the blackmarketeers are on prowl, looking for, not to miss any opportunity to grab profit this crisis.

Mind you….the Epidemic does not discriminate, between the rich and poor, the black or white, between the cast and creed, between social and unsocial, between an honest and a profiteer or a black-marketeer.

On the other hand there are peoples, rich and poor, who have risen to this occassion voluntarily to help the needy and sufferers , self lessly. There are volunteers and NGOs helping the victim families in various ways( inset above).

God bless them. They are providing them food, transport, oxygen, water, arranging medical help, medicines, doctors or funerals, whereever needed.

But in a societies scavengers are also required..

But dear friends, a few years back the scavanging vultures too became the target of unknown adino- virus. Their population declined to a thresh hold levels. The crows too declined in their congregation ratios in city places.

Black marketeers and profiteers- be aware this virus does not discriminate.

So have some sense of humanity. You may earn a fortune with your social dreams. Otherwise the scavanging vultures too vanished.

Its a tsunami of virus invasion, knows no bounds.

Follow the circulated precautions.Wear Masks in house, outside, wash hands regularly, safe distancing. Stay in stay safe.

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Dr. VINOD KHANNA

A good boss creates his own mirrors in his subordinates not by mentoring or coaching but by empowering and motivating them.