Science has failed us

There are millions of biologists. Still we do not have anti-viral drugs. We can see what is happening in the sub-atomic realm. We can hear the murmur of colliding of black holes which do not allow light to escape some billion light years away. Yet, we cannot save people dying around us. We are scrambling for machines that keep us breathing like people hiding behind walls from falling bombs. We rely on a piece of cloth to mask ourselves. That’s as primitive as it can get. We are the ones looking out to set up colonies in Mars. What for ? To escape death on Earth or to coin a new word ‘Galacdemic’ or something after we spread viruses beyond Earth? We are a century from the last pandemic. We are a million times better in the availability of science and technology to fix things and make this planet a safe place to live. Yet, here we find no solution. It is time to ponder how we ended up in this situation? Why is Nobel not given for targeted goals that helps humanity instead of rewarding arbitrary achievements, that has no doubt brought us here, but also has progressed a false hope that we are safe in the hands of Science. Deaths due to viral infections aren’t new. We need not have waited for a killer virus to arrive. And it is clear we will witness more of such things. This clearly shows our priorities are skewed. Our budgets are shooting the wrong goals. It is time our Scientific community identify goals that keep life on this planet. It is time to shed artificial walls and come together to identify common goals for ‘human beings’ and not be divided on race, color, language. It is time Government heads who meet at all those exotic locations keep their Ego away and work for humanity to survive. It is time to declare War on the enemy of humanity and not manufactured Wars. Let Science become more humane to keep life ticking.