COMMENT | The numbers of Covid-19 infections and fatalities keep rising and we are in very critical times.

Those of us in chat groups must have lost count of the hundreds of messages and updates on the pandemic we have been receiving daily. The sighing, whining and complaints we hear regularly from our friends can be very depressing.

Oh yes, they are. As if we do not have enough personal, family or work-related issues to handle, we are being bombarded with unhappy, dreadful and stressful accounts in our hometown, our district or state, nation and even from abroad.

Some of us must have consciously attempted to shut off all the negative vibes around us. We stop reading all the sad, miserable news which we know would not make us happy but likely to stress us.

There was one occasion when I pleaded with my friends not to post anything on “Politics, Covid-19 or Palestine” (which I termed “PCP”) just for 24 hours. It didn’t work.

Serious. We cannot even refrain from...