Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Corona- mother of creativity

Corono virus- COVID 19, no doubt, has shaken everyone globally. Some, in defiance, pretend to challenge the peril by presuming that it is another flu, which can be handled by taking mild precautions, and some have gone overboard by extending precautions to impractical level. I am not intending to discuss anyway about COVID, as already news and newspapers are deluged with instructions and details. Social media is full of advisories and many are scientific based and some are figment of cultural delusional confidence. Reading the posts are sometime hilarious and sometime gruesome. Depressing and mood uplifter.

In the past week, some interesting, imposing, advisory conversations that I was engaged in are worth mentioning here.

One of our morning walk mate is a 73 year old young man, who is always in action, physical and mental. He is fit like any 35 year old person. He is an avid environmentalist, who has already planted more than a thousand saplings. He is multi talented. He is fond of singing and is also a good athlete, plays very good Table Tennis. Somehow he came to know that we are police officers. Since then he grabs an opportunity to catch up with us in the morning just to wish and salute with a parade statement- 'Teeno senaon ki tukdi aapke salaami ke liye tayaar hai shreemaan'. In the beginning I was baffled, as it had no relevance, but now I am left with no choice but to smile and with folded hands say Namaste. In case he intends to change his greetings, he would say- 'Delhi Police Zindabaad.' He is a learned person and a retired senior bank official. Since three days he has been pushing free advises to fight Coronoa.

'It is easy to fight Corono if you follow three advises' he says. 'First, you should have a half cut onion next to your bedside. Second, take five to six cloves of garlic and weave it into a garland. put it at the entry point of each room and thirdly, wear a necklace of one clove of garlic . If you religiously follow this Corona is defeated'. Today, I was embarrassed when he asked me to show my neck, to prove that I was following his advice. Certainly, I had failed him. He wants police to be protected.

When I was asking a relative as to how they were reacting to the pandemic panic, she said 'we are overcautious. And the best part is that our maids are better prepared than us.' To elaborate she informed, 'We may miss wearing masks but our domestic helps are always wearing it. We informed them that anything brought from outside should be cleaned. They took so seriously that today I found my maid jerking off the newspaper violently. When I asked her, she said that because newspaper cannot be washed she was jerking off so that the virus falls from the paper'.

We had some issues with one of the electric board. I asked our electrician to come and fix it. When he came I asked him to use sanitizer. He started removing his shoes outside the gate. I asked him to come in with shoes as shoes normally tend to be a good insulator. He removed them and banged the soles against each other, noisily and with full power. When I asked why, he said, 'If any Corono is glued to soles they would be killed'.

One of our friend said that alcohol is the best to fight the virus. So, a spoon of alcohol in any form should be taken every hour to maintain the medium in mouth to kill virus. Another friend said, the best way to keep Corona away is to drink lukewarm lemon water. It was not difficult to figure out who was teetotaler. The choice is yours.

So, the creative imagination to ward off Corona is picking. And, we need not kill ourselves out of stress. There can be lighter moments. Smile and sing in Chorus!

'CORONA GO, GO CORONA'.




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