Listened PM’s
address to the nation on Covid-19 pandemic and realized the gravity of the
situation. In the following lines, I am sharing with you, how I understand the
gravity of this unprecedented situation.
1) We are currently going
through Stage-1 and Stage-2 of Covid-19 pandemic, which essentially means that the
source of infection is identifiable. But if proper precautions are not taken at
this stage, we will soon enter Stage-3, when it will not be
possible to identify the source of infection and then it will be impossible to
control it (Stage-3 is known as community spread).
2) Two
weeks quarantine is a very good strategy (and the only solution). If everyone isolates
himself for two weeks, we will be able to identify almost everyone who is infected
by Covid-19 and then it will be far easier to control the spread of Covid-19 by
isolating the affected people. Therefore, it is very important that as many of
us must socially isolate ourselves as possible.
3) Please
note that Covid-19 infected person can infect others even when symptoms of Covid-19
have not manifested in the infected person. This is called ‘Asymptomatic Infection’.
There is no way we can know that the person we are meeting is Covid-19 infected
or not.
Therefore, Social Distancing
is the only effective solution to combat Covid-19 pandemic. There
is no remedy except Social Distancing, in the foreseeable future.
Please cooperate.
