The Masks We Wear

Masks have become an inseparable part of ourselves

- Smt. Sujatha Rao

These days we see them on everyone. While some people wear them on their chin, others dangle it around their necks. Yet others keep them in their pockets - just in case. A considerable chunk cover their mouths with it, leaving their noses fully exposed.

A good number of them wear them properly covering their nose, mouth and chin and a small number of them wear two of these.

Face masks are the ubiquitous symbols of a raging pandemic. Masks come in various colours and textures. While some are trendy, matching the designer clothes of the wearer, others are plain. Some are stitched out of simple cotton, whereas yet others are the ones prescribed by the medical fraternity.

Just like the masks, we have come to learn that the microbe too has variants with a few of them being more infectious than the others. The microbe that cannot survive for long without a host body relies heavily on its strength or virility in the speed at which it replicates and mutates for its own survival.

That’s how this common nemesis of the size 0.06 micron is capable of eating into the entails of its host, despite the host being endowed with a superior brain capable of coming up with the making of a nuclear bomb that could lead to the extinction of life as we know it, within minutes.