Lockdown 2.0 will break the chain of Corona
Announcement of Lockdown-2 nationwide was
necessary to bite the bullet of Coronavirus by dealing with its execution to
break the chain of infection.
Now a day, everyone is under stress due to
Coronavirus hazard, alarming statistics graph on the rising trend and we have
not so far adjusted ourselves in the lockdown atmosphere. I being associated with the media had to
remain online and updated with the latest.
I had been getting calls from my old friends,
colleagues to whom I have not heard since long.
Such calls courtesy calls are consoling each other with advice to each
other to stay home to stay safe.
Earlier, we used to wait for the holiday while in
service to do something specific like cleaning, resting, sitting in the sun
shade to get natural vitamins and now when conditional holidays have been
provided, we don’t feel to enjoy it. But
to be without regular human surroundings which have come unexpectedly and
compulsorily, it looks to be widening of social gap due to pandemic
threat. Sometimes it would look a thing
of the past in coming times, of hugging, shaking hands a tradition going since
our childhood.
Broadly speaking, I don’t feel doing yoga,
meditation or even take out a book from my personal library.
It definitely creates a horror in one’s mind on
seeing the photographs on the social media and online newspapers of crating
safe quarantine spaces for ten thousands persons in various parts of Chennai,
which reminders me of my visit to Celluar Jail at Port Blair. Means, you are
confined to the limited four walls area.
According to experts, isolation is the only solution to manage to keep
the number of cases at a level that was favoural compared several advanced and
rich countries as compared to India.
While talking to one of my old timer friend,
neither classmate, nor colleague during my service career or after retirement
in journalism, he looked to be weak due to mentally strained due to virus
threat, despite the fact that he has season even green salad days.
Whatever may be, we have to gear up ourselves to
keep mentally and physically fit when I gathered this from giving a self-start
once a week to my parked car, to keep its battery in operation, not having any
problem when we will come out of this lockdown period.
No doubt, the middle class or the people living
below the poverty line are disappointed as it did not cover the issue of relief
to be rendered during lockdown. But
locals are taking care of such class and if this is continued for the
Lockdown-2 period, we can definitely win over the battle with the corona.
Remembering the old green days is to keep alive
for the coming days. We should not
forget to call our know Covid warriors like the CM making video calls to
them. Moved with his gesture, I also got
a call from my senior colleague to convey her thanks to the CM for his shrug.
Do share with your friends, relatives some lighter
moments also, like me of the image with this blog. If you see minutely the image, one fly is also
locked down.
Frankly speaking, the first quote which I framed
was – Contain to Gain. If we control the
Lockdown 2.0 periods, which was demand of hour, it will definitely break chain
of infection. I am sure if we constructively
maintain properly the lockdown period; tread cautiously, one day the troubles
will be over, as normal as it used to be.
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