PEDAL POWER
Manish Jain
Cycling in Corona times ! R
emember Jyothi? The girl from Bihar who did the impossible feat of cycling 1200 km with her father on the pillion, that too on a rickety old bicycle bought in second hand? In the wake of the unprecedented reverse migration that followed with millions hitting the road earlier this year, the ubiquitous vehicle for moving from place to place was the pedal power or merely the feet. Though there has been no focused research on the percentage of people affected by Corvid 19 virus, from among the people who moved back
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from cities, the available empirical evidence points to the resilience of the people in fending off the impending disaster that befell the urban counterparts. There is also increasing global evidence, that young people involved in physical exercises are less likely to be affected by the killer disease. The pandemic has taught us among many signiďŹ cant lessons, the absolute need to keeping ďŹ t to become to be immune to any lethal infections or other debilitation. "Upper respiratory diseases caused by Corona viruses themselves don't kill but the co morbidity owing to lack of immunity and pre-
