letter to family member about your experience with covid 19

    Dear brother, 
     I am safe here. I hope that you are also safe there. I heard that COVID spreads in Hyderabad widely. So that you take precautions.
    As our neighbour feels symptoms of covid, we are taking precautions, you also take precautions like
    Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser that contains at least 60% alcohol.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
• Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.
• Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces. 
• Maintain at least 1 meter (3 feet) distance between yourself and other people, particularly those who are coughing, sneezing and have a fever.
• Wear cloth face coverings in public.
• Stay home and self-isolate even with minor symptoms such as cough, headache, mild fever, until you recover.
     
     As all our country is locked down, needy people are going to panic in this pandemic. So, I decided to endorse my pocket money to Amma charitable trust as my contribution.

  As the lockdown was eased, I began to occasionally take my evening walk around the neighbourhood with my mask on, veering away from approaching people at abrupt tangents. Given the repeated assurances of epidemiologists that the possibility of catching the virus outdoors was vanishingly small, provided social distance was maintained, it seems unlikely that those walks were the source of my infection.

     I visited banks on three separate occasions to catch up with transactions that had been postponed. In each case, the banks were nearly empty, the tellers wore masks and social distance was strictly observed. All of these visits were short: just over five minutes. On another occasion, I went to a large shoe shop to buy summer chappals. Shop assistants sprayed my hands with sanitiser, I pointed at the pair I wanted to buy and a quick credit card transaction completed the visit. There were very few customers about and as I paid, it was moot who was keener to shrink away from the other, the cashier or me. Again, it's possible that I caught the virus during these transactions, but given the scientific advice, the physical precautions taken-sanitizing, masking, social distance, handwashing afterwards - and the brevity of the visits, the risk seemed small.

    I wish this pandemic comes to an end and anxious to see you as early as possible 
                                Yours lovingly, 
                                P.V. Ramana.



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