Initially, after posting about the Lockdown time, I had no plans to write another part. As such, a lot has changed in everyone's life. It's been over three months now we are still in our houses. And there is a clear uncertainty as to when the same will become normal. Ever since the government stopped announcing official lockdown, the cases have doubled now with recently the figures crossing 7.5 Lakhs. At the time of my previous post the ranking of India globally was in Top 10 in the List of countries most effected by Covid 19 disease. Now we have reached the Top 3. And if the current average continues, that day is not far when the crown jewel will be on our head.
Every salaried person like me, is concerned about job security. Most of the companies have cancelled the yearly increment. And with situation further deteriorating, I won't be called a pessimist even if I say that there are bright chances of no increment for the current year as well. The power companies have shocked everyone with hefty bills. Not to forget the hospitals, who are currently called as warriors to suit their political narrative. The exorbitant billing for a Covid patient and blatant abuse of power by them has given a strong reason for people to take care of themselves. The strict lockdown rules may not have had such an impact, but these hospital bills will surely have. Thanks to current regime for a record break streak of 25 days of fuel price hike, now our regular fruits and vegetables cost too have increased. Even though we may have not got any hike in our salary but the barbers have taken a 100% hike in their charges. Long journey buses have been asked to adhere to social distancing rules which mandate them to leave the aisle seat vacant. So the travel companies came up with a spectacular idea. They started selling one ticket at the cost of two. In short, capitalism is thriving or we must say they know how to survive.
Though, in all this, one industry is seeing unbelievable results in their profit margin or current ratio or liquid ratios. With packages released in lakhs of crores the political industry is surely making merry. They must be tired of counting the money now. Surely the stars of the current dispensation are quite happy on them. How much the Congress may not have earned in the past 60 years, BJP surely earned it in just two events; Demonetisation and Corona Pandemic.
And like everytime the victim of this tragedy is also the middle class or working class. We have to bear the exorbitant medical bills to survive, bear the ever increasing prices of the daily essentials (all credit to the marathon hike of fuel price for consecutive 25 days), bear the pain of no salary hikes etc. Also fear of job loss, fear of contracting the disease etc.
23rd April 2021
Yes, I can sense the surprise on your face on seeing the gap in the timeline. All of a sudden from July 2020 to directly April 2021. Let me explain the wide difference. From 1st week of June 2020, there has been no National Lockdown. So states were now independent to take their decisions. India, though, was nowhere still near its peak because in September 2020 India was getting 1 lakh + cases, after which it started coming down. But people were exhausted with this lockdown. Many from the late 80s and 90s generations were now tired of eating home food for continuously 2+ months. Wanderlust hashtag lovers had nothing left in their banks to upload on social media. And not to miss the big fat Indian wedding. So everyone just wanted to break free. No doubt when I am sitting and writing this in April 2021, I can say we all are paying a price for loosening that grip.
So, here we are now. Up until end of February 2021, India was reporting around 10000-12000 cases per day. Which indeed was exceptional because this was the same time when a new variant was discovered in UK and multiple other countries. Europe was again going into lockdown. Many other countries like Japan, South Africa also had discovered their variant of the SARS Cov virus. But here we were celebrating, because we had started vaccination for frontline workers and were about to kickstart for all Senior Citizens. This is something which I do not like, be it about anyone. And that is, not learning from the history but repeating it. I know some people from my circle also use to tell me, "Oh, you don't leave house na?" As if all of a sudden going out on weekends was becoming badge of honour. I use to always say, "Remember what happened in 2020. Europe was on it's knees when we were just having hardly any cases. China was already their on the top and Italy was fast catching up. Italian PM had cried on national television for being helpless. And slowly that wave hit us and then BOOM. It's the same again. In the start of 2021, Europe was fighting with the new variants of Corona and we are not preparing for it. Shutting down jumbo covid facilities, opening up everything and making people believe we have won the war. What if, just like last year the new variant comes and hits us? It is going to be deja vu." But again, whose going to listen to my voice amidst the 140 crore peoples roar?
Not sure, if the establishment missed the signals of rising cases in March 2021 or chose to ignore it. Because Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Bihar elections were most important priority for them. Press too was more interested in some petty carom politics. The newspapers by now had stopped showing the daily cases figures as we had achieved the 'Bring the curve down trophy'. Some health experts who might have sensed it, but were so much mentally exhausted with their duties, which if fair as well, that all they could come up with was suggesting the governments to open vaccination for all. So let us go back a little and trace the roots of this 2nd Tsunami that has hit us.
28th January 2021: World Economic Forum
PM Modi speaking at World Economic Forum said that fears about a COVID Tsunami in India were unfounded as India had not only defeated COVID but it has also built adequate infrastructure to handle it. He pointed out to those developed countries who had predicted as India to be future hotspot or a place where the number of Covid-19 cases will be super high and told them that we are on verge of winning the battle with Corona Virus.
19th February 2021: CoroNil
After accepting the fake or invisible victory on world platform now came the time for mockery. The daily cases were reaching 15000 now, which should have rung many bells after what we saw just few months ago. But our government had different plans. The health minister of India along with another cabinet minister of the country were seen sharing stage at an event of Patanjali company to relaunch their product Coronil as a cure for Covid - 19. I am deliberately using the word relaunch, as this same product was launched in the mid of 2020 as well when the Covid-19 cases were at its peak. Earlier the company had touted it as a cure from Coronavirus but after a huge backlash they retracted their words and covered it up by saying it's just another immunity booster. So now with the Health minister on the stage during the launch, it was nothing but a clear endorsement of the company's claim.
19th February 2021: The Second Wave
With many countries in the world now gripping under the second wave, it was becoming quite clear that the clouds were already looming over our country too. But the 56'' inch chest surely had another plans; to initiate campaign planning for West Bengal and to allow permissions for the upcoming Kumbh Mela in April. So who better to corroborate than the media. Immediately after the launch of Coronil, the media started chest thumping that, "Amidst the fears of second wave, India has found the cure for Covid in Coronil. And even WHO has approved the same".
It was such an embarrassing moment for the country when the WHO had to issue an statement to confirm that they had not given any such approvals. Ofcourse, lying isn't new thing for WHO themselves who had supported and told the world only the China's narrative in the start of 2020 and lost precious time in recognising the pandemic.
22nd February 2021: IMA Questions
After the national and later global embarrassment of Coronil launch, the Indian Medical Association wrote a strong 2 page letter to India's Health Minister to explain, "How ethical is it for modern medicine doctor and a health minister to promote the unscientific product to the citizens of the country?"
As if IMA was going to receive any replies. The topic was closed, no further follow ups by the IMA and no questions asked by our beloved media.
21st February 2021: BJP Declaring Victory
How comical I feel about the I.M.A who had asked the Health Minister of the country a question on Coronil after the day when BJP had already declared victory over Covid 19. In case you did not know, it is very much true. The resolution passed by the BJP read, "It can be said with pride that India not only defeated Covid under the able, sensitive, committed and visionary leadership of Prime Minister Shri NM. The party unequivocally hails its leadership for introducing India to the world as a proud and victorious nation in the fight against Covid." I do sometime pity the leadership of MNS. Because during their party launch speech in 2006, the MNS Chief had mentioned about a BluePrint for the state. And until it was launched in September 2014, the media ensured to ask that one question every time. And this is not it. The worst part is that the same media never asked a single question on the blueprint after it's launch.
Coming back, had any one heard any one asking on live television or in print medium today about this resolution? We will never see that happening now. First, the country was misguided to believe we had found a cure and then we were asked to celebrate when the enemy was literally at the gates.
7th March 2021: The Endgame
From 15000 in mid February, the average cases per day in the county had reached 19000. The Health Minister of the country once again tells on record, "We are in the endgame of Covid-19 pandemic in India, which brought the whole world to it's knees."
Honestly, I do not have anything to add here further. Because you can argue with some one or debate when a sane argument is kept in front of you. But when people talk something that is miles away from being termed even as an argument then I become speechless. The Indian Medical Association again tried their luck by warning the Health Minister against blowing our own trumpet and going off guard against the dreaded disease at this stage. Surely, like the earlier one even this warning must have fallen on deaf ears.
March 2021
The PM has been promoting "Do Gaj Ki Doori" in whatever tweet or speech he makes. But if you had seen the pictures from West Bengal then you can surely tell that there is no such thing as Covid in this country. All packed crowds with not even a centimetre in between them, social distancing a distant dream. Plus, unsure, how many of them were wearing masks or were having any kind of symptoms or were a carrier. The BJP bandwagon continued their rallies, roadshows with packed streets as if living in an alternate universe.
If West Bengal was not enough, then came the Shahi Snan in Kumbh. On 11th March an estimated 32 lacs people took a dip in the holy Ganga on the occasion of Mahashivratri. Here, I will leave the social distancing part to your imaginations.
13th March 2021
By now, the cases were steadily rising in the 6 states of the country. The CM of Maharashtra had already started taking stock of the situation and we were again hearing the word "lockdown" in news. The Health Minister of the country who had already declared victory in the war against Covid now started changing his tunes. The citizens of the particular states were blamed for the rise of cases and suddenly Health Minister started urging people to abide by Covid appropriate behaviour.
Don't miss the crux. What he meant was, Covid appropriate behaviour for everyone except Uttarakhand and West Bengal. And this I am saying because immediately after giving the above bites to serving media, he uploaded pictures of PMs rally in West Bengal with full house crowds. So much, for Covid appropriate behaviour.
26th March 2021
By now the total count of cases in the country per day had reached 62000. But government at Centre was least bothered Instead of working on the coming tsunami, they were busy patting their own backs. The party had asked their I.T. bots to circulate messages of how our PM is becoming a global leader and is on the path of becoming a Vishwa Guru after exporting vaccines to more than 70 countries (as they said). And mind you, we are country of around 140 crores souls. Was it actually necessary to share food from your plate when your own family will be dying?
31st March 2021
By this time, all other countries were busy giving orders to secure vaccine for their citizens. Our country was busy bragging about being the giver of vaccine to the world. Since I am not aware of certain technicalities of the agreement between Serum Institute of India and GAVI and with the Government of India. So I won't comment on that part here.
Inspite of the governments warning people still played Holi to it's full extent. I have heard people saying, "It is our festival, how can we ignore it?" Sometimes it becomes unclear whose life is government trying to save by imposing all the stringent measures? Do they deserve it? The parallel universal Health Minister went on record by saying, "The situation is under control but don't be complacent." If the number of cases rising from 10000 to 70000 is termed as in control, then why not just declare our country Covid 19 free.
The government had appointed a National Scientific task force last year to keep a check on the Covid 19 situation in the country. Well, it came to light recently that the task force met only once in mid January. And their next meet happened directly in the month of April when the situation has already gone out of hands.
2nd April 2021
By now India was crossing 81000+ cases daily and 450+ unfortunate deaths. I read a first hand experience about a man who died due to Covid. He had told his son, "Tomorrow, I will be one of the statistic". In this situation, some states were busy passing Anti Conversion Law. (Yes, BJP ruled). Just like when the cases were peaking in the first wave the government had went on to pass the three critical farms law whose, by the way, agitation is still going on. They are still there on those roads.
4th April 2021
Maharashtra government imposed new curbs in the state. The rules weren't as strict as lockdown but they intended to decrease the flow of people on road in order to break the chain. Not more than 5 people were allowed during the day time and night curfew from 8PM during weekdays. Whilst, for weekends the government had announced the lockdown. Only movement allowed for essentials. As already the state had come in limelight because we were contributing to atleast 30-35% of the total country's cases. Whereas total 8 states, including Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Tamil Nadu were now contributing 82% of the India's cases. The capital Mumbai too was reaching 10000 per day mark very soon which, somewhere around in February, had dipped down to 300. But hardly, people cared now.
9th April 2021
As per the new rules, my scheduled marriage was still supposed to happen. Currently, this was a hot topic for me. As our invitees were already in the restrictions so it wasn't that of a trouble. Plus, the state government after passing orders of new rules on 4th April, had passed 5 amendments to it in he next 5 days. So uptill now my event was on. But country was in deep trouble. All of sudden cries could be heard again just like last year. But this time along with cries for bed, we could see people struggling for oxygen and the another worst area never thought about, space in crematoriums. But media was least concerned. Especially, the hindi media. If you could see the banners prepared by them to praise the PM one would surely question whether it is BJP TV or national news channel?
13th April 2021
Maharashtra state had announced further strict rules w.e.f 15th April and later one went on to announce total lockdown up until 30th April 2021. Only Mumbai was getting over 10000 cases by now. In other parts of India, government had started building walls around the cremation sites in order to discourage the videos that were getting viral. The BJP ruled state such as Madhya Pradesh, UP were seeing bone chilling scenes of multiple burning pyres in the state. But the figures declared by the government was very low. The crematorium site workers were now working double shifts. Delhi government had allowed ground to be used as cremation centres as the crematoriums were over flowing. A long queue of ambulances outside the cremation sites could be seen. In Maharashtra, there was incident in Beed district where som 8-10 members of the same family were cremated. Another bone chilling scene was of a ambulance carrying a dead body take a turn on the road and some how the body falls of the vehicle.The family members agony, I can't even imagine. They heartbreak of losing a close one, the anger of not being able to save them on account of not receiving treatment on time and now wait in the long queue even to allow their soul to rest in peace. This is all beyond human imagination.
While all this was happening in our world, in another alternate universe, election campaign continued in full swing in the state of Bengal.
15th April - 27th April
This was the time period when so many incident happened back to back that I really lost the track. A fan of collecting newspaper articles, sometimes I was literally taking the entire page such was the intensity of news. I will try my best to note down the big events that made me loose faith in humanity.
Ro-Ro Service
With the entire country witnessing shortage of oxygen, Maharashtra state CM had recommended Centre to put Airforce into action to airlift the oxygen from eastern coast of India. So on that line the country's first oxygen express was conceptualised It was suppose to pick up over 100 tonnes of medical oxygen from Visakhapatnam. The important aspect of this train was it was supposed to given a green corridor. This means the train will go non stop end to end. The state government too assured a green corridor on the road once the filled tankers reach the state. So with all set, the empty tankers were loaded and the train left Mumbai (Kalamboli) on 19th April. Generally, a passenger train requires 28 hours to reach Visakhapatnam from Mumbai. But the green corridor oxygen express took 2.5 days to reach the eastern coast. So lets see what transpired in those 2.5 days and how was the blame game:
The first comment was raised by MP from Maharashtra who pointed out the fact that if passenger train takes 28 hours then why is the oxygen express still at Akola afte 24 hours?
Hope you are aware that railways come under Centre Government. There are two common routes for trains from Mumbai to Visakhapatnam: One is Mumbai-Pune-Solapur-Gulbarga-Hyderabad-Vishakhapatnam while the other one is Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur-Vishakhapatnam. But the Railways opted for a complete detour: Mumbai (Kalamboli)-Vasai-Surat-Jalgaon-Nagpur-Vishakhapatnam
The Railways came out with technical reasons saying that the cargo was classified as Over Dimensional Cargo which is not allowed to travel in the Ghat sections. So the detour was essential. They also blamed the state government saying they had sent the nitrogen tankers which weren’t cleaned as per the protocols. Therefore, they had to be cleaned at the plant in Vishakhapatnam before filling them up oxygen.
Honestly, I am not sure who is right or wrong, technically. Were the reasons given were legitimate or note? I will choose to leave it upon history to judge.
Covid Vaccination Politics (International)
Honestly, whoever wins an election or becomes a CM or PM. The only satisfaction I may receive if I follow them like a die hard is my ego satisfaction. Because the next day, when my life begins again I know nothing has changed. It is pin to plane exactly the same. And this view point is about local area politics. I remember during the 2019 state election, one candidate from a political part had come to our building to carry on with their election campaign. This was the first time I was able to see a politician when they visited the building during election season as normally I use to be either outside or working. So my usual curiosity took me down to see what they had to offer. The leader arrived with all his orchestra and sloganeering. Then began the typical garlanding and photo ops. After those flowers were, literally, dumped in the leaders car storage, he started speaking. Since it was small session and people were closeby, so I could sense the uncomfort in his speech. He wasn't able to shout and blast words like they usually do. So whatever promises he was making didn't reach my ears but the concluding line did reach my ear pretty clearly. His last line "......only if you elect me Otherwise don't come to me." I saluted the audacity of this person who confessed it that I will help only if your vote benefits me. Else see you after 5 years.
So if this is case in local politics, you can imagine how drastic changes will happen in my life if Joe Biden is elected as the President of US in November 2020 (pun intended). But it did have an impact on Indians.
After taking oath as the President, he first prioritised to vaccinate all the US citizens. Now remember, there is developing country like India who was distributing free vaccine samples outside to gain some mileage whereas the Super Power was putting their people first. And for this, Biden had put an embargo on export of Raw materials that will be needed to prepare the vaccine.
But please do not assume this as politics. This is in real sense nationalism. One cannot stay hungry and give away their food under the pretext of helping some one. Because you cannot pour from an empty cup. The media in India had questioned one of the vaccine manufacturers and he had told this on record that the US embargo was not going to have impact on our production. But the government in the Centre by now had no place to hide. So they planted stories in media to tell people that because US denied us the raw materials we are facing some vaccine shortages. And after days, PM will have a word with US president and they will restore the supply, they were suppose to show him as the Lord Hanuman who himself brought the mountain of Sanjivani.
Another story in international vaccination was India had given approval to Sputnik V, a Russian approved vaccine to used in India. The interesting part here is Sputnik was launched way before any country in the world had launched a vaccine. But just because it was Russia, and US did not approve it. The world did not give them the status of launching the vaccination drive early. So India too did not allow Sputnik V then, but in April 2021 it was given permission for emergency usage. I guess the real story, we may never come to know.
Covid Vaccine Politics - National
As West Bengal campaigning was in the final stages, PM suddenly realised he had a country to look after. The CMO of Maharashtra had called the PMO to seek help on providing more oxygen. But the PMO had replied saying, "PM is out for a rally in Bengal, we will reply later." As soon as CMO publicised this message, the entire Cabinet went into damage control. The health minister started giving some figures of how Centre is sensitive to State problems. The railway minister, out of the blue, started talking about avgue corruption just to divert the attention. But everything went for a toss when the next day, Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court ordered the Centre to restore the oxygen supply to Maharashtra which they had reduced, especially when state was accounting for 40-45% Covid 19 cases in the country. I was shocked to the core when I heard this entire plot. How can someone literally kill the population just because your government is not in that state?
Then as usual, Centre was successful in burying the news. Thanks to their huge army of media companies. Next issue came was about the pricing. Finally, the Centre had given instructions to the States that they can now purchase vaccine on their own. This was extremely necessary because, up until now all states were made to beg in front of Centre as they were procuring the vaccine and distributing among the states. But if you think government had starting working for the people then keep reading ahead. Two companies were primarily were working on the vaccines in the country i.e. the Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech. So the Central government when they allowed states, the ratio declared was; 50% of the vials manufactured will be sold to Central Government while the remaining part will be sold to State Governments and Private hospitals. But Serum said when they announced the pricing, they will be selling the vials to Central Government at the same price i.e. 150. Whereas the same vaccine will be sold to States at 400 and to Private hospitals at 600. Bharat biotech too announced that they will be selling the vials to the States at 600 and to Private hospitals at 1200.
Now lets talk a bit in detail of the pricing. The CEO of Serum Institute had said this on record. He was of the opinion that they were going to sell the vaccine, on a normal day, at Rs. 1500 per vial. But because Central Government requested them so they are selling it at Rs. 150. Now, if you may be thinking how much losses the company is bearing for the country, keep reading. He further said, "It is not that we are not doing profits (by selling at Rs. 150). But we are not making Super Profits." How much charity, when the world is reeling in pandemic.
Another topic that was purposely not allowed to make headlines and that is the Kumbh Mela. Before I go ahead, do refresh the memories of Tablighi in the month of March 2020. The Kumbh Mela had begun in the month of the April 2021. Lakhs of people, yes, lakhs of people took a dip in the holy Ganga. I would leave the Covid Protocols and Social Distancing norms to your imagination. The CMO of Uttarakhand did not do anything o stop this. One of the head of the sects event came on camera and said, "Everyone had to die to one day. But mela will not stop." With the average cases in the country now reaching 300000, still PM or anyone from the Central government was uttering a word on this. But lie manufacturing machine was working overtime because when compared to the Tablighi event from 2020 seemed a mere trailer. That tests are done, masks are given, only negative tested people are allowed etc. where used as an argument. But the entire lies fell down like a house of card when a RTI request was raised to know the actual figures of testing done in the event. The data was for two weeks from 1st April to 14th april. The media figure estimated that 35 lakhs people bathed in the Ganga on just One Day. The lie factory was spreading that everyone participating in the event was being tested for Covid to ensure no one is a carrier. But as per the reply received on the RTI request only 62507 RT-PCR Test were conducted in total 14 days and 221693 Rapid Antigen test were conducted in the same period. So this means out of 35lakhs only 283000 people were tested i.e. 8% of the total attendees. Among those tested, 2397 tested positive in RT-PCR and 1237 in RAT. That come to approximately 1.3% of the total tests. Now imagine, what if the government had tested everyone who attended the Mela?
And just a heads up, the government has already started making plans for the Char Dham Yatra.
We read somethings about the politics on Covid Vaccination. There was another area were the hoarding was on and this was in the procurement of Remdesivir medicine which was in shortage since last year. I read two cases in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Lets begin with my home state. It was midnight of April 17th. The Mumbai police had seized 4.75 crores worth of Remdesivir vials that were secretly moved by a Gujarat company. All of a sudden, the leaders of opposition of both house of the state suddenly showed up at the police station at midnight and started pressurising the police. The leaders said, BJP had ordered those vials from Daman & Gujarat privately to be distributed in the people. Was it a mask or a sanitizer that they were going to distribute to the people? But of course the media is not going to ask the right questions to them. What the media actually should have asked is:
- How did a private individual procure the medicine when sale is allowed only to governments?
- Why did the L.O.P inform the state government and helped them procure it? Private purchasing was illegal.
- In midst of pandemic, one political party had the medicine worth 4.75 crores?
- Another most important one was, the
day before this incident the Central Government had ordered the suppliers to
not supply the medicine to Maharashtra state. And immediate next day, the
principal opposition party has approximately 5 crore worth the medicine. Any coincidence?
To add to all this, the Gujarat police also capture the owners of that company the next day as they were found illegally hoarding the medicine. So much, for what?
The world media has criticized the handling of Covid 19 by the Indian government. But our media is celebrating them. The Madras HC pinned the blame on Election Commission of India for the rise in patient in Bengal. And also said, that you should be tried for homicide. The high courts and Supreme court is taking action against all involved in governance and asking them the right questions. The Supreme Court made aware the Solicitor General of India regarding the provisions of law where pricing of Vaccine can be freezed. But SGI had nothing to offer as an reply to that suggestion. Because the same evening Serum Institute will offer Rs. 100 discount to States while procuring the same. So instead of 400, now states will pay only 300. Suddenly the health minister of the country says, India is well prepared for the pandemic on the same day when the country registered over 3000+ deaths. To put in perspective, on that day India registered 35% of the total people who died due to Covid.
Let us end this post with few statements that should be making headlines until the ones who spoke don't come out an apologise:
1. PM (Last year, March): "Give me 21 days, and we will win the war against Corona". After around 400 days, 18 million cases, over 210000 deaths. "Our war against Covid is motivating the world. We are following a human centric approach".
2. Health Minister: "Keep politics outside of Covid, which unfortunately few of us don't understand." I think he must be referring to BJP only who was the first political party who had mentioned in their manifesto that we will vaccinate all citizens of Bihar if elected to power.
3. Minister in Gujarat: "BJP worker do not get affected by Covid. Apparently, the party chief, home minister and UP CM among others were detected positive.
4. Railway Minister: "I am getting news of oxygen being wasted in hospitals. I am also getting news of those who do not need oxygen, are provided in hospitals." I guess he missed out the news on oxygen trucks being held by their leaders to do photo ops.
5. PM (Again): "I am calling the NGOs to come out and help the frontline workers. I am calling the young people to come out and take responsibility in your society or area. I am asking the small children to no to allow their parents to go out of the house." Because I have an another rally to attend in Bengal, Okay Bye.
All I can say is this is the filthiest kind of politics one can play. If real evil exist, today I can say I have seen their faces.
But to be fair, even we the citizens are responsible for what our country is going through. The moment National Lockdown was lifted back in June 2020, the picture of people at Marine Drive for their morning walks made headlines in all newspaper in the city. Now, even as the country was reaching 100000 per day cases we could still see images of packed Varanasi ghats for the Ganga Aarti.
Ever since, we have lifted our guards. We all became complacent. It is like, people were becoming so casual that the reason for going out would be, "Now learn to live with the virus.
We do not know where we are heading to. All we should know now, that we are on our own.
Be Safe.
-SR.
PS: May The Force Be With You!
