Originally posted by: Wisal10
Thanks Rohini and Nihara❤
We are feeling much better, just can't get rid of the darned cough.
Testing for coronavirus in the UK has been shambolic to say the least! Its difficult to imagine us as a developed country during this health crisis because our response has been so poor. My husband was only tested because his job role sits under the key worker category. Forget being tested for recovery, his senior manager called him on day 8 of his illness and was trying to pressurise him to return to work. If you exhibit signs of coronavirus you can call 111 (non emergency nhs number) and they tell you to take paracetamol, stay hydrated, rest and self isolate for 14 days. That's the most help you can get. The only way you can get tested is if you land up seriously ill in accident and emergency or if you are rich and famous! There was no chance of me being tested unless I became seriously sick. This is the reason I don't bother reading the daily briefings. The stats of people Infected with the virus are completely wrong. The figure is far greater. I feel behind the scenes they are still aiming for herd immunity. However all the recent evidence suggests very few people are building any immunity or antibodies to this virus. Not sure about India but if the lockdown continues for too long in the UK our economy will collapse anyway so there will be no NHS to protect. Such strange times.......
How are you and your families? Hopefully all safe. What's testing like your end? The few news articles I have read appears to show South Asian countries dealing with it better than we are.
Glad to know that you and your family are doing better Wisal 🤗....Take care...this is really strange times for all of us!
I read that U.K. govt. response to the pandemic and management has been poor.So i guessed it must be difficult to your family..
Testing in India, i can't talk about all states..
Regarding my state, the state govt. was so careless in the beginning ...it didnt take pandemic seriously...They tried to quarantine only foreign returnees in the beginning and later they started isolating Delhi returnees and their primary contacts by contact tracing.
In my District, govt. is good at isolating .. I mean municipal volunteers visit houses in red zones and ask about travel history, symptoms and any contact with positive patients ...Many and many members have been quarantined as lock down has been poorly managed many are suspected to get infected..The number of tests did are not sufficient when you look at such large number of members in Quarantine...Testing should be increased...Even in India ( including my place) Many ppl are there who tested positive but they are displaying very less numbers on paper 🤔
Regarding me, My district collector effed up my district big time...In my colony ,Vegetable shops and everything has been closed as it is in red zone, collector gave us some phone numbers saying everything will be delivered at door but nothing is happening.we have to go kilometres to bring groceries ,so everyone is still roaming on the roads...In my colony One Auto comes daily once at random timing to provide only vegetables for 20 mins , 50 ppl crowd around Auto..Social distancing thrown out of the window .Unless we expose to large crowd,we dont get vegetables...My mother being diabetic didnt even took food properly from two days bcz of lack of vegetables or milk ! Upar se this hot summer is not helping 😵Sorry for the long rant..i was totally fed up today...needed some ranting.
In my place, everyone is interested in religious wars blaming each other religions or interested in politics/elections when this is the time for everyone being united and get through the tough situations : (
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Never mind. I posted personal stuff as usual in an impulse.. So had to edit.. lol
Edited by Free_Rein - 5 years ago