So, Covid-19 decided to rear its ugly head in the world some time around December 2019 and since Jan 2020 the world has been shitting bricks. The number of cases is exponentially increasing, people are panicking and buying hoards of toilet paper rolls, guns, stocking up rations for months, either getting divorced or making more babies - basically everyone is stuck at home or taking to the streets to protest and do whatever the eff they want.
It's a really trying time for us, for the world in general. I mean, we are used to sitting on our phones and not interacting much, but because we have been asked, rather told, to stay at home we want to defy and step out and party.
Humans as a species are really wired weirdly. We want to defy restrictions that are put in place for our benefit. We want to hate a PM because he's a Hindu supporter and thus not do as he asks. We want to find fault no matter what he says. Haters gonna hate, right ? Even in Italy (which is the worst affected right now); people are going to the streets as though they don't care ! there's a compilation of mayors losing their shit and threatening flame throwers at people who defy - it's gotten that bad. People in the US are throwing parties and meeting up on beaches and other public places because they can and they want to. I came across a post on Reddit where a man came and stole a can of water from a woman - WHO WAS IN A WHEEL CHAIR !!!!
People with kids - of ALL ages - must be losing their minds ! How do you keep a kid entertained for so long without TV or the phone ? How much can you read to them / make them read ? How many games can you play ? They aren't allowed to interact with others - all their pent up energy needs to be directed somewhere and the house must be a war zone ! I know mine is - I clean up after my 17 moth old 4-5 times a day. We are trying to teach her to "put" things back inside where they belong, but that resulted in us losing our Firestick TV remote for a good 4 weeks until we found it inside some bag inside a cupboard.
Most women in homes have become maids and cooks over night ! I remember my mom calling herself an "unpaid velakaari". I remember laughing my ass off when she used to say this but now I realise how little we value our moms / grand moms. I have started appreciating my mother so much more post this lock down ! I'm going mad trying to figure out what to cook for breakfast, lunch and dinner ! Quite often I feel like giving up and asking the husband to eat chips / plain rice.
Young people can be affected by Covid-19 but we don't get affected that badly and end up being carriers and spread the germs to others - who can get really badly affected by it. Kids somehow seem to be least impacted in a bad way by this virus. But there are a few edge cases where young people are dying (like a 38 year old doctor).
How did such a virus emerge ? There are tonnes of conspiracy theories surrounding this. It all started in Wuhan - China some time around December 2019. Thousands of people have died there, but somehow the curve seems to be flattening there. The rest of the world is getting it now. Apparently doctors in Italy (which has a lot of Chinese workers from Wuhan) started seeing weird pneumonia cases in November 2019. Pneumonia is a last-stage situation for Covis-19. How come all these weird viruses originate in China ???? SARS, MERS and now Covid-19. Why does China try to suppress this information and only lets the world know when shit has hit the ceiling ? Is the world going to boycott Chinese goods and start depending on indigenous products; will then world take a leaf from modi's book like Make in India ?
I think I am going all over the place in this post. But this exactly what all is going on through my head. Im bored. Bored out of my brains ! I want to step out but I shouldn't and I cannot even if I wanted to. But I do not want to - I am not mad. I do not want to catch this disease, or worse, spread it all over the place.
I am not sure how long this world wide curfew will last. My gut tells me that after a couple of months, things will settle, this will become a way of life and people will get on with their days. Just like how nowadays no one gives a shit about TB - which is still killing 4,500 people a day every day even today.
I just hope this quarantine is not going to result in more humans ...
It's a really trying time for us, for the world in general. I mean, we are used to sitting on our phones and not interacting much, but because we have been asked, rather told, to stay at home we want to defy and step out and party.
Humans as a species are really wired weirdly. We want to defy restrictions that are put in place for our benefit. We want to hate a PM because he's a Hindu supporter and thus not do as he asks. We want to find fault no matter what he says. Haters gonna hate, right ? Even in Italy (which is the worst affected right now); people are going to the streets as though they don't care ! there's a compilation of mayors losing their shit and threatening flame throwers at people who defy - it's gotten that bad. People in the US are throwing parties and meeting up on beaches and other public places because they can and they want to. I came across a post on Reddit where a man came and stole a can of water from a woman - WHO WAS IN A WHEEL CHAIR !!!!
People with kids - of ALL ages - must be losing their minds ! How do you keep a kid entertained for so long without TV or the phone ? How much can you read to them / make them read ? How many games can you play ? They aren't allowed to interact with others - all their pent up energy needs to be directed somewhere and the house must be a war zone ! I know mine is - I clean up after my 17 moth old 4-5 times a day. We are trying to teach her to "put" things back inside where they belong, but that resulted in us losing our Firestick TV remote for a good 4 weeks until we found it inside some bag inside a cupboard.
Most women in homes have become maids and cooks over night ! I remember my mom calling herself an "unpaid velakaari". I remember laughing my ass off when she used to say this but now I realise how little we value our moms / grand moms. I have started appreciating my mother so much more post this lock down ! I'm going mad trying to figure out what to cook for breakfast, lunch and dinner ! Quite often I feel like giving up and asking the husband to eat chips / plain rice.
Young people can be affected by Covid-19 but we don't get affected that badly and end up being carriers and spread the germs to others - who can get really badly affected by it. Kids somehow seem to be least impacted in a bad way by this virus. But there are a few edge cases where young people are dying (like a 38 year old doctor).
How did such a virus emerge ? There are tonnes of conspiracy theories surrounding this. It all started in Wuhan - China some time around December 2019. Thousands of people have died there, but somehow the curve seems to be flattening there. The rest of the world is getting it now. Apparently doctors in Italy (which has a lot of Chinese workers from Wuhan) started seeing weird pneumonia cases in November 2019. Pneumonia is a last-stage situation for Covis-19. How come all these weird viruses originate in China ???? SARS, MERS and now Covid-19. Why does China try to suppress this information and only lets the world know when shit has hit the ceiling ? Is the world going to boycott Chinese goods and start depending on indigenous products; will then world take a leaf from modi's book like Make in India ?
I think I am going all over the place in this post. But this exactly what all is going on through my head. Im bored. Bored out of my brains ! I want to step out but I shouldn't and I cannot even if I wanted to. But I do not want to - I am not mad. I do not want to catch this disease, or worse, spread it all over the place.
I am not sure how long this world wide curfew will last. My gut tells me that after a couple of months, things will settle, this will become a way of life and people will get on with their days. Just like how nowadays no one gives a shit about TB - which is still killing 4,500 people a day every day even today.
I just hope this quarantine is not going to result in more humans ...
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