Covid Crisis In India | Never Thought This Would Happen

I know we’ve been going through a very tough time. The new variant or mutation of Coronavirus turned out to be much more severe. India Covid cases set the global record, for the first time the daily cases crossed over 3.5 lakhs/350k and that too is for several consecutive days now. It is estimated that the number of cases to arise more in the coming days.

The data we’re seeing is just the estimation provided by the officials, it is really horrific to say that the daily cases and death tolls could be a huge undercount. All the hopes, medication, and our preparation don’t seem enough to tackle the second wave and the challenges we are facing now.

I thought that 2021 will be the better year for all of us and it was going through for the first 2 months, cases were declining rapidly every day, the economy was about to get on track again, we just started to breathe freely. But now it is proving me wrong.

Honestly saying, I don’t want to write this and I don’t find anything to write between all this chaos. But however, I feel the urge to write down all the experiences I’m witnessing to let all of you know that what India is going through right now, the situation of covid crisis. The virus is swallowing people in India.

The thing is we weren’t prepared and we didn’t see this coming. With such a massive population it becomes very difficult and challenging to fulfill all of the needs. We’ve run out of medical facilities, oxygen supplies, hospital beds, ventilators, and other medical equipment. There is a shortage of doctors & ambulances. People are dying outside of the hospitals due to the unavailability of beds. Burial grounds & cemeteries are running out of space.

On social media and in television footage, desperate relatives plead for oxygen outside hospitals or weep in the street for loved ones who died waiting for the treatment. If you see the ground reality, it’ll be much more shocking and terrible in all aspects.

This image wrenching the millions of hearts where a woman from Agra, India rescuing her covid positive husband by breathing into his mouth, trying to revive her dying husband through rescue breathing, but he could not be saved despite all the efforts. Read it here.

In another news, an 85-year-old man from Nagpur, India, gave up his bed for a younger Covid-19 patient and said, ‘I have lived my life,’ later dies at home. Read it here.

The news channels and internet is flooded with such kind of news. Images that we are seeing are heartbreaking and beyond belief. I can’t emphasize this more, the situation is getting really bad now. A little cough and cold shaking people to the core.

It’s a shame that during the initial phase of the second spike in cases, my country’s system, political parties, government, responsible authorities & Election commission were all busy conducting elections in West Bengal, India. There were crowded rallies and roadshows going on every day without any fear of spreading the virus and against all covid-19 protocol. Elections being more important now risked the lives of innocent people. But of course, they never had or never will hold responsible themselves for the circumstances that arise.

We are deeply saddened by all the loss. Our condolences to the families who lost their loved ones. We can’t imagine what you must be feeling right now. Words may not suffice to express the heartfelt sorrow that all of us are feeling. We are sorry for your loss. All we can say is to stay strong in these difficult times, battle is still going on.

And thanks to all the Nations & Companies who come forward in these desperate times to offer aid as India battles a deadly second wave of Covid-19. This active response of the world to India’s health emergency is much appreciated.

Some already sent the help in the form of medical equipment supplies, ventilators, oxygen concentrators, cylinders, and other aids. Other Nations promised to send the help soon in the coming weeks. We are all in this together. Helping each other in critical time is what humanity needs the most in today’s world. And a country like India, which has a tremendous capacity to produce vaccines not only for its people but for other countries too, needs to heal from this covid crisis soon.

The only positive news that is quite relaxing to the ears is that people are coming forward, donating and arranging help for each other. Like there is an uncle in my neighborhood who turned his local school van into a hospital bed. There are different people coming up with different ideas so that it somehow helps those who are in need. If you would like you can also donate either to PM Cares Fund or other trustworthy NGOs like AidIndia, GiveIndia, Khalsa Aid India, and others.

The front-line workers are also continuously working day & night despite all the risks involved.

By saying this I remembered a very good line that ‘You step outside you risk your life, you eat you risk your life, you drink you risk your life and nowadays you breathe and you risk your life, it doesn’t matter, we don’t have a choice. The only thing we can choose is what we are risking it for.’

And as I already said that I should not have been writing this, especially in these tough times where we already going through a lot of negativity all around us. But I still write in a hope for better days and that next time we come up with some positive news in our next blog.

The blog isn’t mean to spread any negativity and any more panic, it just means that we still have a long way to go. Be strong and be a responsible citizen. Know your duty towards the nation, wear a mask and stop the spread.

Take care of yourself. Stay safe Stay at home. This too shall pass. God bless.

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