Samikhsya Bureau
The world has come to a standstill post the outbreak of COVID-19.
Lockdown in India continues and obviously for good of humanity .
Corona has abandoned two concerns. One is how to defeat it and the other is the dos and donts where it makes many believe that, is it a virus only for the upper stratas or not.
To make this doubt more explicit one has to read through the most recent key tips being circulated through several platforms.
First thing first is the hand washing anytime in the day or night you lay your hands on anything. Soap and then sanitiser.
Wearing masks whenever you go out or in an unavoidable cluster. Those are fine tips.
Please keep separate pairs of footwear for outdoors and indoors to fight the virus. That’s bit ambitious.
Washing the kitchen twice or thrice a day is okay. But with soap and disinfectants is something for a certain layer of the society obviously not by all who have no access to good water even.
Then comes the nitty-gritty’s.
Besides disinfecting the surfaces, you have to eye on the electric switches, desk, keyboards(which has nothing to do with the community at the bottom perhaps), doorknobs, toilet, closets and also make sure, you do not touch any object while cleaning; so hand gloves are necessary(may be a luxury for majority).
Mind you, the globes used, have to be dumped in the waste-bins and no second use. That’s little too much.
Entering the house with a bag full of vegetable or fruits, one is supposed to wash the bags before entering. Where ?
Or, interestingly but, medically mandatory, such bags are left outside and that too in a corner, for about 24 to 48 hours.
Where does the majority Indian live today ? Is that affordable to make corners in their shanty enclosures of one room often, with no water-tight separation from each object.
If some of them have foot wears, then can they afford two pairs in possession or buy an extra pair is a question we need to ponder over.
After the bags abandoned out(corners), see to it that, the vegetables and fruits get washed in potassium permanganate solutions (the poor ones can at best do that with hot water) for ten to 15 minutes. How many can afford that ‘solution’ !
Make use of hypochlorite to clean every corner of your house or make use of bleaching powder to clean your house, quite a challenging tip that was. Bleaching powder can rather come in handy for the majority(read poor).
“One needs to understand while performing all the above activities, wearing gloves is necessary and when you are giving your clothes for laundry(how many can!), please use disposable gloves and it is preferred to wash your clothes at home only and avoid any outside contact,” Dr. Rajesh Chawla was quoted by an agency.
Must disinfect the furniture surfaces and the floor. Clean all kitchen surfaces every time you finish cooking. Have the majority a real kitchen and if so how many can buy the disinfectants so often.
In fact, what the doctors are reported to have told, that must be said keeping in view the larger mass.
Or , can it be merrily assumed that, COVID-19 is a virus for the upper and middle strata ? Or is that luxury of conviction !
