I as a person , we as a family , we as a society and we as a Nation , we are all experiencing this. The “Bazaar of Emotions” .

It just takes one phone call, one whatsapp message, one look at the TV etc  to experience this Bazaar of Emotions. Such is the situation right now that everyone must be feeling scared whenever their phone rings. 

I have experienced this 3,4 times now in just one month. It's an avalanche of emotions , where we hardly understand whats going on ,what to do , whom to call and what to say. 

Most recently was when one of my acquaintance who was alreday admitted in hospital since 20th for covid , his CT scan score instead of reducing had shot up  from 15/25 to 22/25. 

This is an extremely precarious situation. During this time patient has to be in ICU in order to have a chance to survive. Though being admitted in hospital since 20th and going through course of Remdesivir , his condition worsened. 

Whenever i recieved such a call, or any such news of someone being Covid positive, or someones condition deteriorating etc I have felt a state of confusion as to what to do and what not. Whom to call ? Whom to inform? What's the solution? What will happen ? What to do ?

I'm sure along with me hundreds or thousands or lakhs of Indians must have have gone through the same set of emotions as me. May be even more. 

My biggest worry is the Emotion of Helplessness. The fact that we cannot do anything about something is probably the worse thing one experiences. What must be going through the heads of our warrior doctors and nurses who go through this emotion day in day out. When one knows that the patient requires oxygen but they are unable to provide it !!! When as a doctor you know what the patient wants but your not able to provide it . As a society this should be our biggest worry. 

What makes us humans different than animals is not only the fact that we can speak and communicate with large groups but the fact that we can cooperate with each other and face any difficulty together. And to fight Covid we need to co-operate with each other. We all need to wear masks( double masks now ) , we all need to maintain social distancing and we all need to vaccinate. 

We need to get out of these Bazaar of Emotions and be pragmatic . We need to act . We need to follow the procedure and we need to co-operate. Yes it will take time and yes it's not easy. But together we can fight it .