UNEXPECTED TIMES 2020-21...CORONA part2

 

Part 2

This was the most difficult period experienced by many as there was uncertainty of job, business and health issues. The lockdown shut all work and the migrant workers had nowhere to go as no job, no salary and no shops open for food. Trains & public transport was halted and hence there was no choice but to leave their city of work. India saw the largest migration of workers and families within the country. Harrowing experience for many, long walks to their village back home. Large numbers of NGO were helping the needy but that was not enough. Government trying to bring sense of discipline but it didn’t work. Chaos prevailed.

I wrote a poem on the Corona

ना बिवी ना बच्चा, ना बाप बडा ना मैया

The whole thing is that

भैया सब से बडा कोरोनो भैया.

ईस कोरोना की ताकत तो देखो

पुरी दुनिया को नचाया

देखते देखते virus को फैलाया !

The whole thing is that

भैया सब से बडा कोरोनो भैया.

घरवाले बोलते कितना काम करोगे

कभी तो बोलो के हम घरपर रहेंगे.

पर कोरोना को देखो कैसे झटसे घरपे बिठाया.

The whole thing is that

भैया सब से बडा कोरोनो भैया.

सब नेता सोचे अलग पर मोदी सोचे सबसे अलग

सबकी सोचको लगाया लगाम

कोरोनने बनाया गुलाम.

The whole thing is that

भैया सब से बडा कोरोनो भैया.

दुनिया कि अब है फटी, population थोडी घटी.

वातावरण खुश हुवा क्युंकी pollution घटी.

कोरोनाने बजाई सबकी घंटी.

The whole thing is that

भैया सब से बडा कोरोनो भैया.

Lockdown lockdown हो गया

अब पैसा भी down होगा.

कोरोना को हराना होगा तो घर बैठना होगा

वरना फिरसे बोलना होगा…. The whole thing is that भैया सब से बडा कोरोनो भैया !!

 

The India’s workforce initially did Work From Home (WFH) but as the lockdowns extended many industries, corporate, hospitality units were forced to shut shop thereby laying off  employees. Bad times for employed & self employed, shopkeepers, travel trade, hotels-resort-restaurants, construction trade, industries.....in short all except IT industry (WFH), Large corporate /Banks (WFH wherever possible continued while some were laid off), medical & pharma industry, Food & Dairies, Hospitals, clinics. The picture was grim with people’s bank balance dwindling and some already bankrupt. The speed of disaster...68 days!  

The government had geared up and medical facilities (Covid centers) were being erected, permission to start new testing labs were given and were being opened at frantic speed, doctors and other medical staff worked 24/7, police were on toes all the time without rest and these were the segments that were working to Save India, selflessly. Salutations to them !!

I will not go into details of government efforts at all levels but yes some states were doing good while some struggled. Lack of facilities due to large number of patients was the problem. By the end of 31^st May’20 the patients were 1.82lakhs plus form 500 on 24^th March2020.