Mincing Words - Not !!

Hello everyone! Today is the 7th Day of this lockdown. I hope all of you are in good health and spirits. As time has progressed so have my thoughts about the lockdown. Earlier I used to think about this lockdown mainly in terms of how should I spend my time meanwhile this disease leaves my country. Now my thoughts have progressed to what should I do right now so that it will be helpful to me when all of this is over. For the past few days, I have frequently mentioned that I feel a little sad or a little depressed due to this pandemic. Today while thinking retrospectively I found out the reason for the same. The explosion of information, news, memes and various other articles have confused us. They have thrown our world or I would say brain into more chaos then it can handle. In my opinion, everybody has a threshold for unreal and challenging things which they can handle in their personal life. This pandemic, lockdown and various other articles regarding both of these have c...

Hello everyone! I hope you all are fit and fine. First of all, I would like to apologize for being late to deliver my sixth day of the lockdown. The reason why I got late is that I was busy doing some bureaucratic work. So let's just start with the day. My day began with a very depressive sad feeling of what was happening in this world. I know I've been a little repetitive about saying that I am sad sometimes, thinking about the current pandemic, but that is the truth of my life. I do not like the idea that I have to sit at home while some virus is wiping out humanity. Although I am at the beginning of my career and there are a lot of things which I have to experience and learn still, I feel as if I should be in middle of it and fighting. I am very sure that many of you too get the same feeling.  Most of my evening was spent in trying to lift up my mood. I tried to watch Netflix, went outside my room and met a few friends in the hostel, tried to study in our cafete...

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing fine. It already is the fifth day of 21 days lockdown and the differences between the last five days or maybe the coming days seem to become more blurry as the lockdown proceeds. I feel the major reason for that is is a lack of routine which I had been following since the beginning of my life. I am pretty sure that I was this free only when I was less than 3 years of age. Since then, I have been under a very strict schedule of the school, sports and working hard to get good marks for a better future. I know many of you might have been following a stricter schedule or might not be following any schedule at all but I feel that this lockdown will make us realise no matter how redundant our schedules were for a third party, they still made sense. It was that schedule which made me get up every day and go to work. Nowadays I keep on forgetting days and dates when I get up in the morning. All this seems so unreal as there has never been a day whe...

Hello everyone! Today is the Day 4 of the lockdown and I hope all of you are feeling fit and fine. I am hopeful that most of you are not bored at your home and enjoying a good time with your families. As compared to the other three days, I had a pretty average day. As I decided yesterday I started my day pretty early with a small training session for all the residents who are to be posted in COVID-19 screening clinic. Although, most of the instructions which were given in the training session were the same as before with some extra added instructions according to Government's Advisories which have recently surfaced.  The thing which I would like to discuss today is - Fear. Fear of the unknown, to be more precise. When I woke up in the morning I suddenly realised that I was in the middle of a pandemic and was about to be posted in the middle of the positive cases. I believe a metaphorical battlefield. The gravity of the situation gripped my mind. I will not deny that my...

Hey guys! I hope you all are doing fine and staying away from the world outside. Today was the best day of my lockdown. I say that because I got to go for my regular duties breaking the monotony of the previous week. Although the lockdown started 2 days back, I have been out of regular work for almost ten days now. Most of it is because of the leave which I had taken to study for the final exams. Unlike other departments, we in Microbiology are not relieved one month before exams. We mostly get 15 days, if we are lucky then maybe 20. Due to the pandemic, we have been asked to rejoin the duties even if we had applied for leaves. It is compulsory for one of the senior postgraduates to be present in the department at least once in four days. So, as I reached my lab, that old smell of disinfectant mixed with old and new bacterial cultures from samples filled my nostrils, suddenly waking me up and making the laziness go away. It might sound like a bad experience in regards to the usage ...

Hello Everyone! Today was Day 2 of the lockdown. I hope most of you are still negative for COVID-19 and are enjoying at your homes.  My day started pretty normally and for a change, it started earlier than usual. Got a call from home enquiring about my health and checking if I was taking proper precautions to fight this menace. Immediately after breakfast, I came across a piece of very sad news - In Delhi, people are evicting all the doctors who are working directly or indirectly with patients of COVID-19. I guess the praise for some of them yesterday was premature. Today in the world when doctors are the most respected professionals as they are risking their lives and are working day/night for the welfare of their patients, there are those who think that it would be the right time to screw them as they are at a risk for developing COVID-19 from them. I would like to say that it's not just selfish but also a new level of cruelty our society has reached. Having said that I wou...

Hello Everyone! I hope all of you are doing fine and well. As we all know that there is a pandemic upon us, as a medical professional I would suggest all my readers to follow the instructions given by their respective State Governments and Central Government of India. Before I dive into my first day of the lockdown I would request and urge you all to share your thoughts and experiences of the lockdown in comments or in the e-mail provided in my profile.  Today I woke up to a new India. A country which despite its many different ideologies has united to fight a common enemy - COVID-19. A country which comprises of numerous religions, massive numbers of languages and superstitions coming together to believe in scientific facts. For the first time in my life, I saw this colossal effort by the population of a country to make sure that they fight disease. I know I am young and there have been bigger outbreaks but I am sure of one thing that this is the first time any disease has ...

Hey guys! I just decided to share with you my 21 days of lockdown amid this pandemic. The reason why I share my life and thoughts with you is that I really want to know if there has been any change in my objectivity, writing or thoughts from a third person's point of view. Although, I think that I am pretty stable and will be able to survive even a lockdown longer than this if the need of the hour is so, let's see how it goes. So READ. FOLLOW. SUBSCRIBE Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Days 8 & 9 Days 10 & 11 Days 12 & 13 Days 14, 15 & 16 Days 17 & 18 Days 19, 20 & 21 My Conclusion