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I'm also thinking same question 😃

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Thank you for the good words. 🤗 The struggle to balance survival with all the difficult things that make life so difficult with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many people to sacrifice social connections and therefore quality of life, for life itself.

To prevent the spread of the virus,and the need to highlight the pervasiveness of social contact within, and social relevance of, nearly every sector of our lives, including employment, education, entertainment, travel, transportation, and recreation were shut down abruptly.

In this post, I explain why concerns about social isolation are exacerbated during the pandemic; I discuss why we must consider the impact of reduced or changing social connections. highlight possible unintended consequences of improved digital connection; and, emphasize the importance of prioritizing social needs in our recovery efforts.

Social isolation and loneliness prevalent in such circumstances leads to serious psychological disturbances. To avoid this, we all need a support system, which can make sure that the good days will be here again, we must sustain to witness those good old days. For this, this IF connection works as a bridge to connect with our friends to get strength, and it's like a feeling, society as a whole is with us!

Thanks once again for the good words for my humble effort. 🤗❤️🤗

This as I said is a stage for connecting us it has sandwiched our lives with joy and togetherness and this bridge is like a ever fixed mark, it will stand for eternity dr

Ur post means a lot, I was thoroughly overwhelmed and inspired reading it dr❤️❤️❤️

Originally posted by: CarpediemRose

This as I said is a stage for connecting us it has sandwiched our lives with joy and togetherness and this bridge is like a ever fixed mark, it will stand for eternity dr

Ur post means a lot, I was thoroughly overwhelmed and inspired reading it dr❤️❤️❤️

In grief and in such extraordinary circumstances we have to support each other, hold hands, to move forward with grit and determination to save ourselves. 🤗Yes, IF is playing a vital role in these difficult times.

There are innumerable stories of people from the civil society doing their bit to fight the unprecedented health crisis due to the second wave of Covid.

Vivekananda from Kolkata said---

"The day the lockdown was announced, the police were on night duty for 12 hours. There was tremendous pressure on food delivery boys. Tired and hungry, they were working at odd hours on deserted roads with closed eateries. We spent the night distributing food and cold coffee to them. I remember we met a food delivery boy whose bike had broken down. With a lot of persistence, he let us deliver the food for him. He is now helping us with food distribution drives for daily wageworkers.

With the aim of reaching out to others who could need us, we built a network of 70 volunteers. Whenever someone messages a volunteer from our network, he or she puts a word out on our WhatsApp group, thereby activating others. Through this network, we have connected the elderly with NGOs providing food, found medicines for a child suffering from malaria, and provided ration to a home for the disabled.”

Vivekananda is one of the many volunteers of The Art of Living chapter in Kolkata who are reaching out to everyone affected by the lockdown. The Kolkata team has distributed over 20,000 ration kits and continues to serve others.🙏

Here , in USA, from 3rd Jan till 23rd July , there have been 33 875385 confirmed cases of COVID with 604546 deaths reported to WHO.

Because of well planned Vaccine, the cases are reducing. I never expected that I have to see such a difficult phase in our lives. If it a war, it involves only a few countries , if it is a natural disaster, it will ruin a specific region, but this is something unimaginable, swept the entire world.

They are saying, the pandemic is not yet over , still it is doing it's damage silently , take care everyone.

These are difficult times and pandemic is not over yet… the sad part is here in the USA cases are rising again this time of Delta Variant. Hopefully this is controlled sooner than later because stuck in pandemic and isolated is really disturbing mentally. If it wasn’t for Online friends it would sure be worse to cope with pandemic especially if you attracted the virus and were isolated. I can imagine how tough it would have been to those that went through it. #StayStrong #StaySafe Everyone.

Here's a story of how a family suffered and recovered as COVID survivors with courage and determination during this challenging time. ----

"Don’t assume you have strong immunity and ignore the prescription"--- A COVID survivor's request ...

Two days before the fever, I had a terrible body ache and a little cough. Then, loss of smell followed. After taking the Covid medication, by the fifth day my fever went away. Told Jay Prakash....

I regularly drank kaada, sanitized my hands, always stepped out with a mask, only shopped online, did not use public transport, only drove my car, maintained social distancing…So, when I got fever on April 12, and my RT-PCR test came positive by April 14, I got very irritated. But had I not taken these precautions, I might have got infected earlier, perhaps more severely.

Two days before the fever, I had terrible body ache and a little cough. Then, loss of smell followed. After taking the Covid medication, by the fifth day my fever went away. However, two days after my report, my wife and three-and-a-half year old son tested positive.

That was the first time I got very scared about the situation. I did not inform my parents because they would have rushed from our village in Gopalganj, Bihar. I just notified my brother that only come in case of death to cremate us.

My family doctor and a specialist from Apollo Hospitals both said that our child was quite small, and would not be too affected by the virus. He was prescribed Limcee, Zincovit Ivermectin (only ¼ tablet per dose). His fever went away in two days. But my wife had fever for almost 15 days. She contracted pneumonia, and had 40 per cent lung involvement.

After recovering, my son and I occupied one bedroom and my wife isolated in another room. The first two days, my son longed to meet his mother. So I made up a story that mummy mein kheeda gaya hai. Agar mummy ke pass gaye toh woh kaat lega (A worm has entered your mother’s body and if you close it will bite you). After that he understood and would stay with me. My wife would communicate with us from a distance. I had to extend my 14-day leave as per Covid guidelines to one month, because of my wife’s condition.

Despite my immense fatigue, I took over the household chores. I would take 3-4 hours to complete a task that could be done in an hour. Initially, we ordered from Swiggy or Zomato aloo paratha, poori bhaji, or idli for breakfast; rice, dal mixed vegetables during the day, and chapatis and vegetables in the evening. But the food didn’t agree with us, and I started cooking meals, though my chapatis did turn out as good as my wife’s.

I recovered fully on April 25, and my wife sometime after May 05. Thereafter, we sanitized the whole place on our own. My advice is to just follow your doctor’s instructions. Don’t assume you have strong immunity and ignore any part of the prescription. Don’t rush to the hospital. My wife’s oxygen levels fell to 93- 94, but our doctor said to wait for a few days, and soon stabilized. Most importantly, I have seen Covid affected people roam about in public. Don’t be like them, stay at home.