Saturday, April 04, 2020

10 Days Into Lockdown

Being a homebound, the Lockdown doesn’t make great difference in my life except that I didn’t went out for evening walks for last few weeks and I do things at leisure than before.  Usually dad used to go out for shopping vegetables (at marker) and groceries (at departmental stores) and he don’t do it daily so there isn’t a great difference here as well. And we have a retail grocery shop next to our house, where vegetables are also sold in the morning so we buy the most from this shop and only dad goes for a brief walk at the empty streets in evening as he found his blood sugar level had risen to result in mild difficulty in breathing as he stopped going walking after the execution of lockdown. He used to go for a walk on terrace but the little space wasn’t effective and being a stent patient he need to keep down the glucose level to avoid complications.

My brother’s fitness centre (gym) was closed from March 16th and he too was at home since then and hasn’t gone out rather couple of time. So we were almost home staying and it wasn’t difficult anyway except for mom who has to do the household chores herself as the house maid is unable to visit due of lack of public transportation, my aunt aid her somewhat.  I really feel sorry for many a people who still unaware about the basic precautions of corona and are highly vulnerable to caught with infection. I see more people moving into the streets with no reasons and it looks the curfew actually come into force only after 2.30pm when all shops are closed really. Govt. is taking much needed action, even though we anticipate more, and more testing, the people’s response is disappointing and minutes ago too I see three boys taking pillion ride on bike. What kind of consciousness we create has become a question. Television media, newspapers, social networks are all busy spreading the need and not things of covid 19, but still this kind of indifference, ignorance and forgetfulness are all painful and scary to see and feel.

Official report says there isn’t a community spreading of corona in India, but I think we aren’t far away from a situation that could worsen us. The causes of covid 19 continue to rise in India and we have crossed 3k people confirmed with Coronavirus of 229 recovered and 86 confirmed death. Our state is in 2nd place with number of corona sufferers. Though we continue to quote stay home, I see the social distancing is something people fails to follow or give a thought in practice. I wonder do people wash their kerchiefs daily, the piece of cloth what many tie on their faces in India, instead of surgical mask, to prevent virus. And how careful people are when washing their hands? We are staying in home but seeing people in groups or crowding our street (there’s a chicken shop two houses away from us is crowdie in morning hours) looks bit scary and likely infectious.

That’s all for now! Stay home, stay safe and hope the situation turns better for all-over the world.  Let’s wish for peace and quick recovery of people from covid 19.

12 comments:

Tom said...

...at this moment we need the facts, something that politicians don't want to talk about.

eileeninmd said...

Hello,
I think we all need to stay home and be safe. I agree, we need to be told the facts, mostly from Health officials. The politicians and the media do not always give the truth or the facts. Take care, stay safe. Enjoy your weekend!

Bill said...

We have been staying in mostly except to grocery shop and a short walk. People here seem to be following the rules. Hopefully the world will recover. Stay safe!

RUTH FASHION DIARY said...

Thank you so much Jeevan for the update from your place.We are not in lockdown yet but we are already having curfews from 7pm to 5am here in Kenya.Stay home, stay safe and hope the situation turns better for all-over the world. Let’s wish for peace,sanity and wish a quick recovery to all people from Covid 19.

George said...

We have a very similar situation here in Tennessee -- too many people are just not taking the 'stay at home' order seriously. As a result the governor is requiring more and more businesses to close. Hopefully people will start to take precautions and this pandemic will begin to subside. Stay safe!

carol l mckenna said...

I agree with you ~ many people are not taking this seriously and thus, many are out and about when they should be home ~ seems to be the only way to stop this virus from spreading ~ Be safe and healthy, Jeevan ^_^

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Sandi said...

Stay safe, Jeevan.

Lady Fi said...

I go out for long walks every day as it's easy to keep away from people in the countryside.

Glad you are taking the proper precautions to stay safe.

ashok said...

Tough times...stay safe

♥ Łucja-Maria ♥ said...

Hello Jeevan!

I come to you from Sandi! You have a very interesting blog.
I also stay at home now because we have isolation against Coronavirus. In my country, the situation is very similar.
Take care, Friend.
I send greetings from distant Poland.
Lucja

Terra said...

I came from Sandi's blog. It is dangerous for people to ignore the basic rules of staying safe, and if they get infected they can spread the disease to many people. As you said, stay home and stay safe. Hello from California.

Twilight Man said...

I am getting bored at home and never slept for so many hours! I have also become a couch potato for watching so much TV! The pandemic virus is getting out of control daily except for China that has allowed some cities to live normal again.

Over here, we watched the viral videos of policemen in parts of India that used long canes to whack all those who loitered on the streets! It was shocking but funny.