COVID Thoughts

Dr. Sid Padhi

:-)  Workplace becomes War-Zone and Home becomes Safe Haven. But, the cliched Mian-Biwi- nok- jhok jokes have strangely gone underground. Sudden bon'homie'? Did COVID do the trick? Or, was it just an overrated, overdone concept?

:-)  "Man is a Social Animal". A past concept that we studied, sometimes for marks in exams. Forget the gender bias, we will never be the same again. Not for a long, long time. And by then, we would be used to the New Rules of Society. As for those who challenge me, they will reinvent the meaning of "Social" to fit their argument.

:,-)  Accept it as a first from me. COVID is now a Verb. "Stay away. You may Covid me" or.. "He was Covided during transit" or.. "All rescuees from China were isolated to keep them from Coviding others"

:-D  Driving is now so much relaxing. The roads have suddenly become broader and the car seems slow at 60kmph. And there are checkposts where you are ushered through with the power of the stethoscope and a 'cross' on the windshield that has nothing to do with religion.

:-P.  Some, hitherto chronic patients of cough, cold and 'yesnophilia' have miraculously recovered from their perpetual symptoms. They are all responsibly housebound and apparently doing well. No news is good news.

,:-|    Summer is here. People are feeling the Corona Heat, though. And, for once, people aren't complaining. In fact, some hope for a bad summer to tide them over this crisis. Quite a change in perception, one would say.

B-)  Evenings are now reminiscent of childhood - cool breeze and more birds than humans returning to their nests.

:-\    Discussion on social media is almost impossible to follow. There is so much - material and immaterial - that the only way of making sense of it all is to execute a summary delete. End of discussion, and better to stay off them on Whatsapp!

}:‑)  Doctors were being bashed up all over the country for being inhuman until a month back. They were scoundrels and scallywags after the patients blood, life and money, so we were told. Not anymore. Now they are heroes, saints and demi-gods. Every dog has its day.

:-P  Nose-pickers are an extinct lot. Nit-pickers are no longer public. Rag-pickers are occasional. Even the Opposition has not found much to pick on.

:-P  Policemen are into experimental mode and having the time of their life. From bum-bashing loiterers to bum-swishing to music in public, they are the upholders of the discipline that we otherwise lack. They are the 'anti-socials' who ensure social distancing. They are the real Socialists.