Wuhan Shake

I was reading the various opinions on the living-together-before-marriage thread. And then read the following in a newspaper article about life in Wuhan, a city of about 13 million, still under severe lockdown:

In a city of 13 million, how many poignant stories must there be? We will never hear most of them, but here is one: a young man comes home to visit his ageing parents to see in the new year. The parents have long been wishing that he would marry, but he has not been able to attract a girlfriend. Not wanting to disappoint, he hires a young lady to come home with him as his “fiancee”, sleeping in a separate bedroom. The two have agreed that after leaving Wuhan they will revert to being casual acquaintances. But the virus strikes and they are trapped in the parents’ apartment. The young woman endures – slicing tofu and making small talk with her “future mother-in-law”. Nothing can be done about that.​

 

Last line sure to touch a chord. Eyes turn moist.

 

Dear SLN Sir,

The bride cries sitting in the lap of her father asking for the man and eventually, her father buys the bridegroom that the bride asked for. Isn't it what the ritual of Kannigadhanam represent? Jokes apart, I really like the Wuhan shake of people who live in Wuhan, China. Had they not been shopping for bats, the world would have been a better place. Only in Communist China, it is possible to keep 13 million people in a locked-down position for a month.

Had they listened to the doctor who found the Coronavirus instead of forcing him to sign a letter stating that he had misdiagnosed it, China and the rest of the countries wouldn't be facing this pandemic. When it went out of proportion, the Chinese government began to take action and let the news release to the rest of the world. - Source Richard Engel's show in MSNBC on Sunday, March 8, 2020, at 10 p.m.

America is now promoting a fist shake.

 

"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" ​

is a platitude that is not useful for any short term come back. We are here, because of the challenges from the pathogens to weed out the weak among us... over an evolutionary time scale.
The current virus does not affect dogs and cats -- the usual housepets. What have they got that we ain't?-- is the question that may hold the answer to some more new vaccines. And there will be more viruses coming up in the future as well. This is the outcome of the Chinese Government's achievement to lift millions out of poverty in encouraging entrepreneurs to raise wild-life for meat-sale under unregulated conditions==> See LINK


Viruses revealed to be a major driver of human evolution <==click
Study tracking protein adaptation over millions of years yields insights relevant to fighting today's viruses
Date: July 13, 2016
Source: Genetics Society of America
Summary:
The constant battle between pathogens and their hosts has long been recognized as a key driver of evolution, but until now scientists have not had the tools to look at these patterns globally across species and genomes. In a new study, researchers apply big-data analysis to reveal the full extent of viruses' impact on the evolution of humans and other mammals.

 

That is true indeed.
2. As a habit, my father’s elder brother & his spouse used to drink this warm cow’s milk+ turmeric powder + knocked pepper from silver tumbler every night an hour before retiring to bed. But then, he was in Kumbakonam with half a dozen cows at the back of his home.

• Dad used to tell me His brother and manni never turned patients to any doctors or hospital in their vicinity.!

3. I also endorse views of OP’s phenomenal researched views.
Thanks and Regards.
GOD - do this COVID-19 would ever strike Your sanctum( in temples).