It was during the first wave that my parents got infected with Covid-19. My father is a bank employee, and he had not taken a single day of...
It was during the first wave that my parents got infected with Covid-19. My father is a bank employee, and he had not taken a single day of leave in months, even during the national lockdown. Bank employees are rarely regarded as Covid warriors but they put a lot in their jobs. My mother, a retired government employee and now a full-time housewife, also got infected.
I was the third person in the house, but fortunately I was not infected. It allowed me do the household chores.
It was a time of great uncertainty and fear. We figured out the basic problems of staying in isolation such as how to get food (from friends and relatives initially and then from a delivery service), where the garbage would go (we just collected it in a big bag), what to do with the dog who is used to going out twice a day (a relative took him to a dog creche).
Since our family was the first to get the disease in our residential society, a middle-class row housing in the National Capital Region, we also experienced extreme reactions. Some neighbours called and offered unconditional help but other people spread rumours and tried to restrict entry...
