You may not get even cold meds without prescription

Are we making too much out of a pandemic?

Doctors, whose primary responsibility is to keep their patient healthy, are afraid to even attend to them for their regular complaints.

Hospitals, which are the primary source of healthcare, seek a confirmation of being non-Covid, to admit a patient. Moreover, a non-Covid patient is not able seek OPD treatment at the hospital for want of doctors. Be it Heart or Diabetes, such diseases require immediate medical attention, which is being totally neglected by the persons authorised to handle such complaints and complications.

The administration is busy searching for a needle in a hay-stack. It is not sure of what it wants to administer, whether distancing or treatment or statistics or, above all, non-residents of the cities.

Rumours rule the roast of the day and increase with nightfall.

We are in an absolute state of limbo, searching for proper information about the disease and rules and regulations for enforcing the lock-down. People move about freely in and around local areas by walk in the name of marketing for urgent requirements.

Shopkeepers either refuse to deliver material or simply declare is as "OUT OF STOCK". I do not think any sensible citizen would ask for a price of the commodity, he would simply pay the amounts demanded by the seller.

Fruit and fish vendors are hounded out of their designated places. Of course, purchasers are beggars and have no choice.

Repairers of any equipment have just disappeared. If I were to simply fix a light in my house, I would not have the guts to touch the electrical wires, because I have never done so in the past life.

I can continue describing the situation around me, but only to spread negativity. I, therefore, desist from proceeding further and to being de-moralised further. more