Sadhguru: As a generation of people,
never before have we confronted an 
emergency of this proportion and nature.
Speaker: COVID-19 can be
characterized as a pandemic.
Sadhguru: In fact it’s a war-like situation.
The administration, the government 
is trying to handle it on a war footing.
Speaker: How dramatically Corona virus 
has changed life in America.
Sadhguru: So at a time like this,
there is no nation
which is fully prepared to 
handle a situation like this.
The richest nations’ in the world are trembling
under the onslaught of the virus.
So definitely India for the kind of population
and the concentration of population we have
we don’t have a medical system
and the economics to really
provide everything
for everybody for months on end.
Speaker: Those affected directly 
and particularly the poor
will have to be reached out with
tangible help and assistance.
Sadhguru: The union government has come out
with an elaborate package to support them
for three months; the farmers, 
the workers, the construction workers,
various kinds of packages but still there could 
be people who’ll fall through the cracks.
There only the
community can come in.
Sadhguru: I urge everybody wherever you 
are, especially all the Isha volunteers;
everywhere in the world particularly in India that if
you see someone moving in that direction
that we must commit that we will not allow 
starvation to be the basis of suffering and deaths.
We have set up a thirty-bed 
hospital in the local village
where in case it breaks out, there
is an emergency room
and we are also identifying
families who have no livelihoods
and trying to support 
them with groceries
and other kinds of input so that…
one thing is we want to ensure in this 
region that there are no starvation deaths.
Speaker: (Speaks in Tamil)
Sadhguru: We are setting up a community kitchen.
Sadhguru: And we are also trying to serve
the medical personnel
and the police who 
are out there,
fending for us but they 
don’t have protective gear.
So we are trying to support them to see 
that they should not be the people who suffer.
We are gearing up and today I’m making an
appeal to everyone, we need lot of money.
Please, wherever you are, in which ever way
you can contribute, right now it is needed!
We have dedicated volunteers, 
committed volunteers on the ground
but we need to fuel them with
fund otherwise they will not be effective.
So, we look forward to your support.
