New World (English) Nuovo mondo

Research explains how past quarantine have "shaped our streets ,buildings, and cities, our borders,laws,identities and imaginations .                   With the long lag between exposure and Symptoms of virus,the intensity of trade and travel and the capacity of the virus to hopscotch continent in hours,and the inadequacy of medical infrastructure, it was clear that quarantine was the only tool against the new and truly alien.                              Quarantine began when the Black Death epidemic devastated venice that great crossroads of commerce.Special rooms were built to confine traveller ,those infected were forcibly locked inside homes. It is clear that quarantine word originated from Italy for 40 days.Theologician says,it was the span of time taken to transform and purify one self and enter the world reborn.             Much about the quarantine experience remains the same,from 14th century to this moment. When the prospect of lockdown looms ,many people are guaranteed to flee in panic,invalidating  it's purpose ,so quarantines are" Compromised before they begin."There were virus vigilantes then,as now-the first ghetto was built in Venice to forcibly relocate Jews.From scented herbs,beaked mask and garlic to hand sanitizer and PPE kits,we focus on rituals to keep threat at bay.Health passports devised for quarantine were the begining of borders control bureaucracies.                   The grim truth is that today ,as ecological disruption lead to more pandemic,            " quarantine a solution from past,is back -and here to stay.                                Quarantine-as opposed to isolation of known patients-is a buffer between the known and the unknown. It is a state of suspicion ,of  potential infection and possible risk.And so ,uncertainty and surveillance ,are its core.A system  begun in quarantines becomes a permanent technique of control.Today ,for all the tools of  contagion modelling ,location tracking and big data,the promise of "Precision quarantine" remains illusory.                             We have to think beyond pandemic to the quarantine of astronauts to nuclear waste purgatory to plant and animal quarantine. History needs to be traced  between lazarettos(old italian special rooms) to today's bio containment facilities.Event of ebola outbreak to tuberculosis in New York and ofcourse, the covid story around the world,need to include .                           "There is no control without care" Quarantine asks for the public good- and those individuals are owed the duty of public care, too.An effective quarantine is not  an exercise of authority, but public duty.                                   It is our moral duty to maintain  safe distance from each other and Indian "Namaste" Should be adopted instead of hand shake.                     Most of the work of daily nature can be performed online. Information technology and digital mode of financial transaction is viable option of work. We are going to see new world in comming days.

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