people share a tiny room of 200 square feet. How can there be social distancing? Wherever free food and milk is being distributed to the poor, people are gathering in crowds—there is no question of maintaining a safe distance. While there are some who are paranoid about the virus and have locked themselves at home, there are others who are least bothered and gloriously bask on the streets in ignorance. The media calls them “Covidiots” but these people find it impossible to be locked and confined to their tiny rooms for weeks together.
Even Europe where the virus rampaged the elderly population is limping back to normalcy slowly. Austria has opened many small stores and Italy, the worst affected too opened bookstores and other stores. Germany plans to open up several institutions, while Denmark has let children go back to school. It is not that they have overcome the fear of the virus. They are simply fed up and want to move on. After all, for how long can a country shut down its entire economy and its life!
Fear looms large in the US as several leaders and governors of states differ in opinion with the President. While the Americans want to get back to their normal life, there is fear deep within. The thought of having to be in a hospital dying gasping for breath and without access to a ventilator scares