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| COVID-19 Lockdown Is Not Same As Past Shutdowns’: Doctors Tell People | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 10: Over the years, people in Jammu and Kashmir have grown accustomed to shutdowns, restrictions and curfew, but this time the situation is different. Doctors in the Valley have advised the people to unlearn the “learned behaviour” while observing the nationwide lockdown, announced two weeks ago to contain the spread Novel Coronavirus. Numerous shutdowns in the past have taught people of the Valley to step out quickly in the evening, fetch daily essentials and interact with each other when the authorities ease restrictions for a limited period.
But doctors say the present lockdown shouldn’t be equated to any of the shutdowns announced in the past.
“While I have been a great admirer of our social-bonding and networking if ever there was time to show some restraint from meeting each other in person it is now. Evenings don’t present a good site in most of the locations in Srinagar. I am not aware of other parts of Kashmir,” says Prof Arshad Hussain from Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College Srinagar. “I see young people hurdling together enjoying each other’s company wearing those black pieces of the mask which offers perhaps a false sense of security, they are the greatest risk to their families in particular and people in general,” he says.
He added the shopfront discussions in the evening have to wait for the greater good of society.
Dr Masood Rashid, a consultant for anaesthesia with the health department, Kashmir, says on the police and paramilitary forces are on alert on main roads, but inside localities, he usually sees people sitting on shopfronts talking to each other. “What is surprising is that even elderlies are part of the discussion. Some people have few homemade masks and they are not covering their noses. I think some people don’t have an idea that enemy is invisible and there is no relaxation in social distancing and the COVID-19 related curfew,” says Dr Rashid. |
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