Epidemic and Business

October 24, 2014

Eyes are wide shut. Ears are deaf. Tongues are dumb. They say in the book that they have eyes, but they do not watch as they have ears, but they do not listen. Most people could have big ears, but they listen to silly things as they have big eyes they watch very small things. Silly and small things does not mean in size but in content and value. What they see and hear affect their thinking reality and the way they understand and perceive things since what people see and hear affect people’s integrity of life and how and what interpret realities of life, capacity of understanding and things since people live seeing and hearing many things in all their lives. Are they selective or do they take everything as they like, which depend upon the types of personality and thinking they have in life.

People still live with past dreams and nightmares although the present and the future is not far from past due to the fact that most things happen according to what is already dictated although deviations are also there in and they happen since they are out of control, and people cannot have manage over . The drama of being the unknown is still not far from the present and the future. Expectant eyes and hands are staring at what is going to happen since this world is under pregnancy and suspenseful activities which could give birth to handicapped or healthy child are on the stage, but the point lies on the capacities of the medical doctors and facilities and environment of the hospital to help in world such physicians are getting corrupt and business oriented while the woman is still crying for professional and honest help.

The present is mostly dictated by past unless and otherwise fundamental and significant revolutionary changes come to happen in the life of any given society that make any given society think and behave from left to right and vice versa. Spontaneous revolutions are sometimes good since they can bring about fundamental changes in quicker period of time than those revolutions that do occur on evolutionary basis which are slow and they could not even make any given significant changes in due course of time, they probably could forge their motives and objectives as time goes by on what they are doing and how they should do it, and they could make any society to obtain its nobles fruits since in due course of time many things change and the desired change could come to happen as time changes come. Past, present and future are connected with chains of activities.

Accordingly, they tell in the past and traditionally that it is eve who deceive Adam so that they ate that forbidden fruit in past and generation afterwards is cursed by the involvement of satan who was introduced thru snake and eve and thus Adam ate that fruit which put t entire generation and world under curse. Although it is very hard very hard to claim that sex is forbidden fruit since people could not escape from enjoying and doing it due to the fact that it is biological and natural human need. What could be arguable in today is that the fashion or method in which few claim that sex has identity, we have our own way, and unfortunately they do not have the manuals; others put it on shows and the like; others claim that it should be done under marriage or without marriage others say it is commercial, others do it in rape, and so on.

They say, when a man or woman sleeps with another woman or man, they assume that one sleeps with those people who slept with this person before. Meaning, when one made love with 20 men/women before, the current person who makes love with this person is indirectly sleeping with the 20 men/women before, though such theater make such people heterosexual or gay, even if the person is doing it for the first time. This sounds envious people thinking and theater since it sounds bit up surd. However, others claim that such 20 people are useful elements to this person current look since they have contributed great deal to this person current attraction or being attractive person to the current one. Otherwise, the current person could not be attracted to this person.

Anyways, who cares with such people saying since people continue doing all these dramas no matter what takes place in anyone’s life or how many number of people sleep their nights with others and none makes an inventory of such actions and reactions of peoples’ life, but people are attracted to people for various reasons and circumstances, but not only or bed reasons and sexually related ammeters of life.  If such was the case, none sleeps with other since most are victims of such dramas, but the good things in such life is that most people live by the current notions and thinking g in which they regard future as criterion of life although past is useful, but the present is what matters.

Yesterday, I was into a seminar related to HIV/AIDS which was organized by HIV steering committee of the Head Quarter of an organization, which I belong, which invited several sister companies that work under it. One was wondering in here that the drama of such diseases which is till the concern of Sub Saharan countries although Ebola is becoming a hit in these days at global scale since it spreads all over in fast and the case of transfer from one object to another is not controllable in places and cases and lifestyles where people are densely populated and connected with one to another with higher connectivity and other moisturized activities which humans cannot remove whichever place they live and this epidemic is replacing the Media’s attention and concern, and the west is paranoid of such deadliest virus which goes and get widespread thru out the globe due to the fact that such virus is not sexually transmitted, but by far worse and susceptible ways and killing people with shocking tragedy.

It is also quite note worthy to find such systematized organizations that dedicate and coordinate their daily businesses along with social issues, work and put in order things out in a way they discharge their corporate social responsibility thru participating and eradicating social problems of societies in expeditious manner. This is one of the healthy aspects and indicators of such given organizations that devote themselves not only on profit making agendas but also sharing social burdens and challenges as well with feelings of sense of accountability and responsibility they have to the society at large which they respectively belong. When private businesses integrate social and environmental factors and responsibilities and matters within their organization agenda, their success is rest assured and guaranteed. This is what it means by public-private integration and ownership in which profit making can be integrated with public and social issues in which the public serves private companies for its own sake as the private companies serve the public for its own sake.

Presumably, one could think and ponder in here that, is HIV Aids a threat in these days or not, is one of the issues since there are other possible threats hanging around on the world and Medias in which out of 7 billion people, 3.5 million people are infected with HIV Virus as they state, which could be considered as one of the negative forces that affect the developmental aspect of the developing nations especially in those countries which belong to Sub-Saharan countries. This country is on the list of the top 10 in as the positive growth in economy is considerable, hitting high and great in these days, which should have an impact on preventing the widespread of such virus, although 700,00 people carry such virus in relation 90-100 million.

One of the interesting ideas one heard on such seminar is about the current strategy on HIV prevention in which the investment base and approaches employed in preventing and controlling the prevention of HIV in which institutions have gathered learning thru time and they invest money to best practice and methods deployed in HIV preventions in past. It is business oriented approaches although they claim that they have scarce resources and it is not appropriate to go by the way they used to go, or what the private business call profit seeking oriented approaches in which donors or those who are engaged in such work invest money to best practice and methods that give best results. What is quite paradoxical in here is that they claim 50% of the population is hidden and they do not know whether they carry HIV or not in their blood, and in such scenario, it is doubtful to tell that there exists best methods or practice employed in such prevention and controlling mechanism although they claim that they have benchmark out of present scenario and experience.

The funny and quite strange part and the irony of such drama in here is that this country is telling its people it has registered double digit growth for a past decade but the claims or the ways and methods it employed in preventing and controlling such epidemic is till dependent upon donor’s hand or foreign powers assistance and aid. Economic growth should secure in reducing and solving social chaos and complications of any given society otherwise it is just number or digit change. Economic growth should be justified on how far such growth has an impact in solving societal political and economic affairs along with cultural and other socio-cultural factors. When economic growth has no impact on social issues, it is not growth, or it could be something else.

If economic growth does not participate and act as major actor of such huge drama such as  alleviating poverty, removing epidemics and other societal problems, what is the point of counting money or/ and numbers since the most important aspect of any kind of growth should be in  terms of helping societal activities and strengthening  organizational capacities and undertaking; growth should be measured on how far such growth has an impact in reducing and decreasing societal complications and problems otherwise the touchstone on measuring any given growth will be questionable and doubtful and the standard of measurement by itself will be handicapped and hard to trust and thus people should revise their mechanism and perspective in measuring and stating any given growth without putting the agendas of social aspects as priority.

What is quite interesting in here is not on the foreign aid, but the mentality which is still similar as in those days before such growth was not declared. When there is no mental shift, the number of buildings, roads and other infrastructure would be futile when the human mind is still thinking in its obsolete and traditional way and manner. In this given case, the mental shift should star to emerge on the leading arms; otherwise whatever claims are on, they are just fake dramas and continuations of sheet systems before us.

Economic growth by itself cannot prevent the wide spread of HIV virus. In fact, it could facilitate in the widespread of such virus since as there exist few coins in one’s pocket, people tend to contact and interact with many people and prostitutes are one of the highly affected category of people, and as there is economic growth, people move from place to place, and this is inevitable. However, economic growth do create capacity in terms of designing possible projects and plans or whatever strategies people and institutions do in relation to those ailments that affect the growth and future of any nation. Although studies tell that those people who have higher income are also affected with HIV Virus, which tell that such growth is not warranty to creating HIV free environment, but it allows people to buy drugs and develop more health centers, help in controlling such spread and decrease death rate as well.

When businesses integrate such epidemic in their plans and undertakings, and such epidemic become the concern of everyone, they help enormously, the drama of expecting funding and playing games with the sufferings of the mass will be over. The theater of being lords on poverty will come to an end when every businesses starts giving attention and directives towards eradicating and preventing all kinds of epidemic. The problem in here is the mentality and thinking which is not derived in overnight but takes centuries and ages of tradition and socio-cultural makeup in which transformation is not only required for economic growth but also in eradicating all kinds of epidemic problems.

Poor nations are well known as poor since they do not have resources, but they do not know how to make use of their resources to their own benefit, but they expect everything from donors and outside sources and thus, there is no need to develop recipe and make any given calculation to tell them that they are poor and needy and they are still in darkness and ignorance. They need to be trained in all aspects not only in terms of political behaviorism but also in their social and cultural make ups in which those problems and challenges they face thru life and time should by their own give them a lesson. If they cannot learn from such consequences of life, there is no point that other people should help them out but rather they could put them into sea of other layers and levels of poverty.

When society owns problems, then social focus and concentration is given to such problems. Although expertise help is one major drama and factor, social concern is what most people need since such victims require social and psychological support along with expertise advice and treatment. When such full collaborations and efforts are coordinated and integrated within an organization and social frameworks, the road is not such stony, but comes smoother. However, when societies and institutions are in contradiction and ambiguity, such epidemic gets its worst scenario and shape and thus, it is a disaster to the generations yet to come as the present one is suffering and experiencing such wild pains due to ignorance and arrogance factors.

Leadership is an accountable and responsible factor to such failure since it focuses on money or funding than thinking and perspectives since it is the core of any given social dynamics. Leadership should confess in its own tongue that it cannot lead its society and failure is the balance than the success story it gains except mere propagandas it spreads wide over and tell. Such leadership could not lead properly, it should outsource leadership from others or it has to reborn in value and thinking, otherwise the society should do something for its own good and sake.  This will surely come!!