COVID-19 is a creation of natural anomaly as a result of human mediated mishap or natural mutations which got its way to human being accidently.
Human kind itself has created many disasters and has faced many disasters.
In ancient era Plague and Small pox were number one threats to human being and killed more people than all the wars in the history. When talking about Spanish Flu of 1918, it is said that approximately quarter of world population were affected and 1 percent of world population succumbed to it. Asian Flu (Influenza A virus subtype H2N2) epidemic of 1957-58 claimed around 2,000,000 lives. Hong Kong Flu (Influenza A virus subtype H3N2) erupted in Hongkong and spreading all over world claimed approximately 1,000,000 lives between 1968-69. Swine Flu (H1N1/09 virus) epidemic between 2008-10 claimed around 150,000–575,000 lives according to CDC estimates.
Encephalitis lethargica erupted in South Africa in the year of 1915 which lasted over 10 years and has 1,500,000 lives after his name.
In present century, world has faced epidemics of Ebola few times, an extremely fatal virus with fatality rate of >30%. 2013 epidemic of Ebola with epicenter in west Africa with worldwide spread affected 28,646 individuals and claimed 11,323 lives.
India has faced Japanese encephalitis in 2017 in the state of Uttar Pradesh with 1300 mortalities and Nipah virus calamity in 2018 in Kerala state, an extremely deadly virus where it claimed 18 lives out of 19 diagnosed.
World has faced Cholera multiple times since the ancient days and has claimed thousands of lives every time.
World is known to other epidemics like plague, dengue, poliomyelitis, measles, yellow fever etc very well.
Not at all the occasions world has its definite cure or by the time it was available it took some time.
Few things these epidemics has taught us,
1. Any virus can’t consume everything it infests and that’s the boon for human existence.
2. Every time human being didn’t have definite cure, these viruses disappeared with the climate change or some inherent mutation in viral genome.
3. Every time human has protected themselves by isolation and quarantine.
4. As taught by the Spanish Flu, there is the possibility of second wave with the ongoing viral mutation which may be even deadlier than present but not necessary as it’s also an anomaly.
5. Every time human being has overcome the social, emotional and financial trauma of the epidemic and this time shall also pass and human kind will be winner again.
Thus, the epidemic will take its own course until the nature will heal its own creation or there will be a breakthrough invention in the form of vaccine or antiviral drug which is again a chance.
But as the generation pass history is forgotten; the spread and impact of COVID-19 in present time is the example of this. So, in future we need a strong uniform system to cut short such attacks at the earliest and to understand that the nature belongs to other species also.