A Critical Evaluation of the Realities of COVID-19 and A Quest to Restore the Broken Lives Rooted on Mission and Theology

Abstract

As this paper is being written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it sympathetically points out that the pandemic has brought
enormous trauma, horrifying, scary, disrupted economies, disrupted social life, and unemployment. Generally, everything has been negatively affected locally and globally. Perhaps, people need to flush back with the same scaring interpretations people had during the beginning of HIV and AIDS in the past. Some of the scary words used were shuramatongo (mysterious), kambezo (small axe), mukondombera (outbreak), etc. HIV and AIDS had become the talk of the day, particularly in Africa. It had become the pulse of social media. Sadly, the infected and affected suffered stigmatization, discrimination, blame, rejection, etc. However, they overcome it in the end and today we are living with this disease that came to stay. Perhaps it could be the same with COVID-19.