Love at the time of epidemics

Marquez's novel "Love at the time of cholera" depicts the human obsession with romantic love even when death is waiting at the door.

Similarly, Camus's "The Plague" shows the preoccupation of the stranded visitor to the stricken town with his separated lover. He even fallaciously thinks God created him to indulge in romantic love rather than die of the plague.

No scripture of any religion preaches this absurd doctrine, emphasising rather that Mankind was created to adore God. The first commandment of Moses & Jesus Christ also make this explicit. The Quran says the primary duty of a Muslim is to adore Allah.

But nowhere is this most emphatically presented than in "Srimad Bhagavatam" which was expressly created to solace King Parikshit's last days, who was under a curse of untimely death.

So at the time of pandemic, like the present, while all possible precautions have to be taken, the golden opportunity is to constantly love & remember the Lord. For the rest, one has to dree one's weird!