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    Ultimately, The Greatest Lesson That COVID-19 Can Teach Humanity Is That We Are All in This Together.

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    The document is a letter from students at a university requesting that classes be suspended for a week due to the severe mental and physical toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking. It details how many students and faculty have been infected or lost family members, and how the constant stress, grief, academic pressures and lack of support are overwhelming. It argues that a brief break is needed to help students recover and cope with the increasingly dire situation, as seen by other universities providing the same for their communities.

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    The document is a letter from students at a university requesting that classes be suspended for a week due to the severe mental and physical toll the COVID-19 pandemic is taking. It details how many students and faculty have been infected or lost family members, and how the constant stress, grief, academic pressures and lack of support are overwhelming. It argues that a brief break is needed to help students recover and cope with the increasingly dire situation, as seen by other universities providing the same for their communities.

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    “Ultimately, the greatest lesson that COVID-19 can teach humanity is that we are all in

    this together.”

    Dear Sir/Ma’am,

    We hope this email finds you hale and hearty in these testing times. We pray to the Almighty
    for being generous and we extend our heartiest best wishes to the staff who fell ill during the
    pandemic and pray for their speedy recovery.

    We also would like to take a minute of silence for the family members of our fellow
    university who lost their battle to the virus. 

    This is to bring to your notice that in the last few days many of the students of the University
    and their family members have been infected with Coronavirus. The University is well aware
    of the gravity of the second wave as many of our teaching staff are also recovering. Each day
    is a new challenge now. We are witnessing what none of the previous generations ever
    imagined and there are many of us who are quarantined with our entire family. In addition to
    this, on average there’s at least one member who’s infected with the virus in every 5 houses.
    A significant number of the students or their family members are hospitalized.  

    Pain for the loss of our loved ones is unimaginable and we find ourselves destitute to help.
    The country is witnessing a record-breaking number of cases each day but what is saddening
    is that there is a huge imbalance between the demand and supply of essential resources. It is
    evident that the students are distressed and afraid of the new challenges arising every hour,
    with regards to their own wellbeing and that of their loved ones too. 

    Many of us are not able to attend Online lectures due to poor health; both physically and
    mentally. This pandemic has also compelled many of us to seek mental therapy and even
    anti-depressants for keeping our sanity intact, and the news of death ringing in our ears each
    minute is only an addition to our already weakened spirits. The negativity around us has
    made many of the students hopeless and desperate for help but all we can do is share the grief
    of our fellow classmates.

    As every next installment of breath is being auctioned to the severely affected patients in the
    nation, and even at this cataclysmic time many of us are volunteering full time to search and
    amplify the requirement of medical resources for people facing an emergency in our locality,
    or our city. Some of us have taken the burden to connect with the student initiation group to
    daily update the needy with phone numbers, enquiry for the availability of beds, oxygen
    cylinders and other required resources.

    We cannot further stress the anguish and crushing stress of trying to help and save the few
    close to us. The pressure of academics and extra-curricular activities in order to secure a good
    job has wrecked the peace of our minds.  The students of our University have poured out their
    heart time and again to bring to the notice of the University Administration, the financial and
    mental difficulty we all are facing during this pandemic. The second wave has only paralyzed
    further. However, we find ourselves compelled to juggle between attending online classes
    and affecting our eyesights due to long screen hours, running household errands and taking
    care of our near and dear ones.

    To make matters worse, the constant reminder given to us regarding our attendance (in online
    classes), deadlines for project presentations and the constant rush to complete the syllabus in
    time in an already short semester is enough to break anyone’s back. It is not too hard to see
    that the students of our University are not finding themselves capable enough to bear with all
    these things at once. 

    Soon, the students have to take vaccines due to which many of us will fall sick. The amount
    of psychological damage that this wave of the pandemic has done to us cannot be quantified
    in material terms.We are surrounded by a lot of pain and stress at this moment due to the
    degrading health of the people who surround us.

    On behalf of the entire batch of 2019-2024, we request all the people who have received this
    mail to kindly suspend the classes for at least a week to let the students recover and give time
    to them to wrap their mind around the situation which is only getting worse with each passing
    day. 

    We extend our heartfelt apology for any inconvenience that the Administration may face with
    our request. But, we believe that it is within the power of the Administration of our
    University to do the needful. It is pertinent here to point out that many of the other
    Universities in the Nation have decided to give at least a week-long break to the students and
    the teaching staff who have been working tirelessly since the last year.

    It would be in the best interest of the students and the teaching staff to have a brief time off of
    academics. We all have pushed our limits to make the best use of this whole pandemic but it
    is only natural to feel mental exhaustion after more than an year of waiting for things to go
    back to normal.

    Thus, it is our sincere request from you to suspend the classes for at least a week. The entire
    student community is in desperate need of this break.

    We would be highly obliged for your act of kindness. Hoping for a positive response from the
    University Administration.

    Yours Sincerely

    Batch of 2019-2024

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