you have been under a lockdown for the past year. this new phase of lockdown in the second wave have been a constant roller coaster of various emotions including fear, happiness, fun, sadness, etc. maintain a personal diary and write one diary entry every day, sharing your feelings and emotions.
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Enthusiastic as the show of solidarity was on Sunday night, the lights, firecrackers, songs and chants appeared as expressions lacking in depth
The Prime Minister’s call to light lamps, torches, candles or cell phone flashlights inside homes on Sunday night found support among the middle classes in Indian cities. Focused solely on urban India, the media coverage though didn’t offer much of a sense for how people in villages responded to the Prime Minister’s call. In any case, the invitation to join in a symbolic show of resolve to overcome the coronavirus threat needed to have been accompanied by a candid discussion of the steps the government was planning to take to manage the new health threat.
The details of the country’s poor infrastructural preparedness are familiar: the doctors and other health care workers don’t have sufficient protective equipment to work with, a fact that has made many private hospitals turn away people with even a normal flu; the number of tests being done to identify patients with the coronavirus is highly inadequate; the quarantine space within existing hospitals is severely limited.
It would have also been good to see the Prime Minister share the measures that the government was putting in place to help the lakhs of poor migrants fleeing the cities for their native places and to help the lakhs of poor farmers incurring heavy losses due to the shutting of market and transport facilities.
It would have been good to see the Prime Minister ask Indians not to stigmatize the patients who have tested positive for the coronavirus and the health care workers who are treating them. Numerous cases of social boycott or stigmatizing of such individuals have been reported from across the country. These are clearly overreactions since quarantining helps isolate the virus and most of those affected by the coronavirus are likely to survive.
Addressing issues of significance like these alongside would have lent substance to the call to participate in a symbolic show of strength.
Enthusiastic as the show of solidarity was on Sunday night, the lights, firecrackers, songs and chants appeared as expressions lacking in depth. The ritual of being together seemed to merely want the coronavirus gone and normalcy restored, without a sense of grief about those who had died or were suffering from the virus or the lakhs of poor migrants and farmers who are bearing the brunt of a lockdown done for the collective safety of the country. And, really, how could anyone burst firecrackers at this time? The pollution caused from it is harmful people with respiratory disorders who are among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Tuesday
June 30, 2021
10:30 p.m.
Dear Diary:
The entire world has been under lockdown for more than a year on account of Covid 19 pandemic. Though the schools opened for a short period of time, again they had to be closed on account of the second wave.
I am confined to remain inside my house. I can’t meet my friends even. The studies are suffering too. Though there are online classes, but they are not as fun-filled. Even the Government cancelled the Board Exams.
Everyday has become so boring. Same routine every day; I get up late in the morning. Then some online classes, followed by TV. I hope this lockdown will soon be over. That’s all dear diary. Good night.