Since March 2020, Virginia and the United States has been afflicted with the Covid 19 pandemic. Nonetheless, people have had to go to work. Often, the work exposes the worker to Covid. If one is infected with the virus, this can mean medical bills, loss of time from work and even disability. If an infection occurs at work in Virginia, the worker may wonder if his/her employer’s workers’ compensation insurance will cover this. In Virginia the answer is complicated.

First, if the worker is a health care worker and has a special exposure to Covid through his or her work, there is a good chance that the disease will be covered.

Second, if the worker is a fireman or policeman and acquires the disease, there may be a chance for coverage.

Third, if the worker is in a service industry such as retail or a waiter, it may be very difficult to obtain coverage through your employer. This is so because the virus is something the public is exposed to and not just the worker who is in retail or who is a waiter.

If the worker does have an infection, then the employee can request coverage from his employer’s insurance carrier. If coverage is denied, then it would be wise to seek the advice and counsel of a lawyer who is experienced with Virginia Workers’ Compensation law. A claim would be filed with the Commission. If the carrier still denies it, then the Commission will schedule a hearing before a Deputy Commissioner. At the hearing the claimant can testify and present evidence about his exposure. The Deputy Commissioner will have to decide if the exposure meets the requirements of a compensable ordinary disease of life. The law that governs this is Va Code Section 65.2-401. If the worker is not a health care worker, a fireman or a policeman, then the employee will probably have to establish he or she did not acquire the disease outside the workplace which may be an insurmountable obstacle. Also, the sick worker will probably have to establish work exposure by a clear and convincing evidence standard under the statute. Unfortunately, under the law, it can be very hard for this type of problem to be covered.

In some states, the governments have decided that the disease will be covered if there is a showing the worker acquired it in the work place. The practical problem is how can one show it was acquired in the work place and not from the public at large? It seems to be pretty well-known at this time that the virus can be acquired anywhere.

Virginia has not taking any steps to extend coverage in Covid 19 cases at this time in workers’ compensation cases.

<b>Introduction</b>

The new coronavirus is the disease-causing agent of the viral disease that has become a global pandemic, and it has induced the global economic recession. Known as COVID-19, this disease has threatened the public health in large-scale and forced the authorities across the world to go for the long-term lockdown to break its chain of progression. According to the UN Secretary-General, the situation due to the COVID-19 is reminding of the crises that had occurred during World War II. Globally, more than 16 lakhs people have been infected by this disease and it has caused over 82,000 deaths worldwide.

<b>Origin of COVID-19</b>

The COVID-19 had its origin in the Chinese city of Wuhan in the last month of 2019 when the local health workers stated that this viral disease was passed from the animals to humans. Since then, it has spread to different countries across the world. At present, the disease is prevalent in over 100 countries across the world. Being a new virus, there is no specific vaccine or medicine available over-the-board to prevent this viral disease. Since December last year, there have been many attempts to understand the novel coronavirus. Despite the availability of a plethora of data available, it is not known much about this newly mutated coronavirus. In this article, we are going to walk you through some unknown things and facts about the virus.

<b>Known Facts about Novel Corona Virus</b>

1. This newly muted virus was first spotted in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the people got this virus from the products derived from cattle.
2. Corona Virus is scientifically called as SARS-CoV-2.
3. Since the disease was discovered in the year 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) has christened it as COVID-19.
4. Only a few days back, WHO has decided to call this COVID-19 as ‘Pandemic’.
5. This virus belongs to a family of viruses that cause diseases ranging from a mild cold to severe diseases. Some of the severe diseases caused by this family of viruses include Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
6. The common paths of transmission of viruses include physical contact of or through the coughed or sneezed droplets coming from the infected person.
7. This viral disease is highly contagious.
8. The symptoms are mild in the beginning for an infected person and the infections pick up over a while. The symptoms associated with COVID-19 include dry cough, fever, sore throat, nasal congestion, tiredness, diarrhea, or running nose.
9. About 80% of people with COVID-19 recover without much medical intervention. However, ever one person out of six infected people become seriously ill and require serious medical intervention as they develop breathlessness.
10. Ordinary people can avoid getting this disease by observing social distancing, washing their hands with hand sanitizers or soaps at regular intervals, stopping the touching of their face, nose, and eyes, avoid traveling, and stopping the practice of hugging and handshaking.

After having gone through the known facts, let us now look at some unknown facts about this disease.

1. Since there is no prescribed cure for the treatment of COVID-19, all the patients will get is the supportive treatment based on symptoms produced by them.
2. The vaccines for the Corona Virus are being developed in countries like the U.S. and China. However, they are undergoing clinical trials in these countries, which is a mandatory step before getting approval from the local government agencies.
3. A COVID-19-infected person on an average may pass on the virus to two or more people.
4. Mainly old people, children below 10 years, and those persons who have weak immune systems and pre-existing medical conditions may develop serious illness. According to the doctors, people with heart problems, diabetes, high blood pressure, or previous lung infections might get serious illnesses due to exposure to this virus.
5. When the affected person sneezes or coughs, the droplets that come out contain this virus. The virus particles present in air-suspended droplets remain virulent for about 3 hours in the airborne drop suspensions.
6. Though the wearing of face masks does not guarantee 100% protection from the COVID-19 transmission, it is advisable for the persons infected with viruses to wear them to stop the spreading of cough or sneeze droplets in the air. Even the people with common cold and cough are advised to wear the face mask to avoid the spreading of the cough or sneeze droplets. Healthy people need not wear a mask.
7. Though there is no data available to substantiate the re-occurrence of COVID-19 infection, there have been instances of people getting the infection after recovering completely from it once. For example, a Japanese woman was reported to have got the re-infection after recovering from it once.
8. Despite the previously held beliefs that COVID-19 infection tends to slow down during summer seasons, there have been increased infections in all climate areas. That is why the WHO has made it clear that the transmission of this disease is not climate-dependent.
9. There is no information to suggest when the COVID-19 infection is likely to subside and life across the world would return to normal.
10. Though there is no evidence to suggest the spread of Corona Virus from pet cats or dogs, there has been a case involving a tiger at the zoo getting the COVID-19 infection. More data is required to substantiate this claim.

Even after almost a year of its worldwide invasion the SARS-Cov-2 virus called COVID-19 continues to enjoy an edge over humankind which is not surprising considering the unprecedented crisis brought in by a virus hardly known to anybody, its seemingly selective approach in terms of mildness or severity of the infection, baffling all medical scientists and doctors. Humankind, in its present very advanced stage of the knowledge search, is never a party to accept defeat, and therefore, the quest has been relentlessly going on all over for an effective vaccine, and in the meantime intent research on anti-viral or anti-malarial repurposed drugs, plasma therapy and other possible methods of treatment. The main concern of all efforts being at least to reduce the mortality rates which also differ country-wise and inexplicably, and till today it has been an accepted fact that there is no cure for the disease. Various vaccine projects in various stages of development are in full swing in various countries with most of them promising a vaccine by the new year day or early next year. Now, the latest disappointing developments on treatment methods practiced so far have posed the most relevant question: is an effective vaccine only hope for humankind?

Most of us remember the desperate international craving for a basically Indian anti-malarial drug called Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) when the pandemic was raging furiously in Europe and the US, and the US President going to the extent of threatening India if supplies of HCQ were not. However, slowly over time this drug was found ineffective and a bit harmful too in respect to natural immunity. Then there were several other drugs and steroids that were used with seemingly hopeful results, Remdesivir being the one most welcomed one as a life-saver.

The results of the Solidarity Clinical Trial, one of the largest international Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT), that has been conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) since March 2020 were declared recently which marked four of the most promising drugs as ineffective in reducing mortality. The four evaluated treatment methods, HCQ, Remdesivir, Lopinavir or Ritonavir and Interferon, have been found to have little or no impact on mortality rates. As far as the RCTs conducted in various countries of the world including in China are concerned there have always been doubts on their findings, and experts feel the need for more such studies. Objections were raised against the Solidarity Trial too as regards to its sampling methodology from various quarters, with one Indian hospital refusing to stop using Remdesivir claiming its benefits over the months in their patients. However, technically, it means that except for Corticosteroids which have been proven effective in treating critical patients there is no other deemed treatment method, and it also must be remembered that steroids are not recommended for less-severe or general patients.

More disappointing news came next from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on the efficacy of the Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT), so far permitted as an investigational therapy in progressive stages of the disease in India, which involves taking out blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients and injecting this antibody-rich extract into positive patients, particularly the more severe ones treated in hospitals. Over the months it has been developed into a systematic treatment method creating proper channels of donations across the states as infected doctors too made it a point to donate the precious plasma.

The Director General of the ICMR declared the results on 20th October 2020 after conducting its own RCT during April-July period of the year covering over 400 hospitals across 39 medical centers of the country. Based on the results the ICMR has concluded that the CPT fails to reduce the mortality rates or prevent the progression of COVID-19 infections from moderate to severe stages. Following this finding the Government of India is mulling removal of CPT from its COVID-19 protocol for national clinical management. This is indeed sad news as CPT has been a very popular method of COVID-19 treatment in the absence of an effective vaccine.

Experts, however, are not convinced about the CPT results saying that it may have had to do with the delay of the infusion and the quality of the antibodies. Internationally, the CPT continues to be a treatment method meant only for emergency use. Anyway, in view of all these findings the importance of discovering an effective vaccine grows even more. The pandemic is far from keeping its clutches off humankind yet: after over six months of haphazard acceleration India has finally reached its peak in the third week of September 2020 with new cases still hovering around fifty thousand a day and 500+ daily deaths while the European countries and the US are experiencing a second wave.

Most people who get a paycheck, who don’t own a small business simply do not understand the tremendous hardship that businesses have with over regulation. However, Americans are now getting a taste of what they’ve been missing and are now learning just how bad overreaching regulation can be. Most of us understand that when a restaurant is limited to a certain number of seats let’s say 25% capacity, that they won’t make as much money, and may not turn a profit. Therefore, they will have to lay off employees or go out of business.

Still, how many times have we asked ourselves which regulations we already had in place before the Covid-19 crisis which were stifling, smothering, and quelling the profits of our small business community? There are an endless number of regulations that each and every small business in America has to deal with. Then there are class-action lawsuits, employment lawsuits, and contract lawsuits. Many of these lawsuits are enabled because of regulations on the books, regulations that perhaps the small business person didn’t even know about.

Since the Covid-19 crisis began, we’ve noticed businesses such as Gyms, hair salons, and restaurants literally going through hell just to stay open, trying to satisfy their local County health commissioner’s new regulations. Businesses have had to do take-out orders only, require every employee wear a mask, and put up Plexiglas so employees do not breathe in tiny airborne water droplets which may have the Covid-19 virus on them coming from patrons.

Have you ever wondered how much that costs small businesses just to comply with those types of regulations, these on top of all the other regulations that were in place before the Covid-19 crisis? Just to provide take out only service for restaurants they have to put up signage, alert all their customers, advertise their new format, buy more to go containers, and train other employees as to the new way to do business. All that costs money, at a time when their sales are less than 50%. How are they supposed to make money? We know most are not.

And still, do you have any ideas how many regulations are already on the books. A typical small business might have 20 different licenses, fees, permits, or certifications on their wall. Each one cost money, took time to file, and is generally renewable annually, those are added costs. Imagine if there were not 20 different licenses, fees, permits, or certifications? What if there were only 5 or 10? The businesses would make a lot more money and then if and when a Covid-like crisis comes along next time they could satisfy those new regulations without going out of business.

We need to get government both local and federal, out-of-the-way of small business. The small businesses are not the problem spreading Covid-19, they didn’t start the problem, they are victims like all of us. Over regulation is like a virus to business, in essence it causes the same problem for potential profits.

Have you asked yourself during this Covid Pandemic “why” we are putting all the burden on the businesses? If we continually treat our small businesses this way, in the future we won’t have any more. Larger corporations have more political power and clout. They are also able to use the government to make regulations preventing their smaller competitors from competing.

If we destroy our small businesses now, we will be sorry later. Over 75% of all Americans are employed in a small business, with that many unemployed Americans no one will do well, including the large corporations. Can you imagine what the hit on our economy will be? Can you imagine the cost of all those unemployment benefits? We will literally bankrupt our country. And that’s pretty much what we are doing now with the Covid-19 crisis.

What we need to do is re-look at everything now while we have the chance. We can make sweeping changes that will protect our small business community and keep our economy vibrant for years to come. I hope this Covid-19 crisis challenge has woken everyone up, so they can see how the hand of government and over regulation are destroying our freedom, liberty, choices, economy, and future. Please consider all this and think on it.

The novel Coronavirus pandemic has impacted humans like never before in the history of humankind on earth, because it has affected the vistas of personal choices and personal likes and dislikes of people. Of course, wars including the world wars did and do impact lives, but not to the extent as on the present prolonged crisis. Thanks to the advisories and preventive measures to check the spread of the disease most people have successfully specialized in saying no to so many things they prefer to say a resounding yes. This is in sharp contrast of the commonly observed phenomenon that people, good-natured as most of them are, find it extremely difficult to say no, and many social analysts consider ‘saying or meaning no’ a negative trait, barring serious situations when a ‘no’ strictly means ‘no’ and should be respected by all concerned parties or offenders. In view of the pandemic that still does not want to leave humankind alone this specialized ‘no’ has assumed a tremendous and time-defining significance.

How you wish things had been normal and your housemaid started coming to your house, reducing the load of household chores on you and your spouse. Living in home continuously needs cleaning up more regularly than on those days when most of the members would leave home for jobs and other errands, and a super-clean house would await the arrival of the beholders most eagerly and a bit discontentedly too. You’d definitely like to be a help to your toiling and tiring spouse, somehow. But you shall say no as you ought to.

How desperately you’d want to break the monotony of stay-at-home or working from home by going out to indulge in your most ordinary desires like having a cup of special tea at the neighbourhood shop or having a hot snack at your favourite food-joint on the most frequented and economic food lane, and meeting your regular pals at the most familiar lounging points. How desperately you’d want to dine out with your family taking your loved drink or shopping in the inviting malls that you always preferred as one of the weekend outings. But you’ll continue saying no as you ought to, irrespective of whether those facilities were allowed to operate or not yet.

The food and the cab aggregators keep on flooding your in-boxes with messages and requests for your action. You’ll be entreated to order your favorite dishes of which they are aware because of your past orders. You’ll also be entreated to order rides or at least to help out those drivers facing tough times. You’ll feel the impulse to give in at times, when you’d want to order the food just to relive your spouse at least temporarily of the non-stop cooking rigors or you’d want to order a ride just for a change. But as usual, you’ll continue deleting the messages on sight and saying no as you ought to.

How desperately you’d want to invite your friends or kin home for the usual get-together on the usual occasions or without occasions. How desperately you’d want to visit your most favorite aunt or other relatives and friends to mix as well as relishing the delicious dishes for a change. However, you’ll again say no to their coming home or your going out to them. As you ought to.

You’d go on saying or meaning no to all other deemed requirements most earnestly sought to be provided by the hotels or resorts or restaurants, train and flight booking agencies, the local couriers, the newspaper agents, the laundry boys, the salons, the repair-installation specialists, the odd-job boys and the like. You’d also burst out in great anger the moment there is talk of reopening schools and colleges, because you think, as you ought to, that the risks of sending your children out there are still too high.

You’d go on saying or meaning no because your life and the lives of the dearest members of your family matter the most. You do understand your responsibility, and respect the directions or advisories dished out continuously by all the medical experts and the governments.

However, the combined might of all the ‘Nos’ from all of you has been affecting the lives of all the stakeholders involved in doing business for your benefits: from the local shopkeepers & the vendors to the big and bigger service providers. Many of them are shutting down shops or have already stopped functioning, and numerous others are facing imminent unemployment. Their livelihoods depend entirely on your saying yes, as in the near past. This does not at all imply that you are wrong or that you are not philanthropic; of course, you must have done your bit in giving out doles to the worst affected. You’re right, because your life matters; they’re also righteously unfortunate, because their livelihoods matter, and without that their lives are at stake. This scenario is just one of the dead-ends that are emerging out of the ‘lives vs livelihood’ debates engineered by the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

No doubt, no should always mean no. But in the present situation it is of crucial importance to convert some of the nays into the ayes. Besides, from an economic point of view the crucially important factor of creating demand in the economies cannot be realized at all without the ayes of a vast majority of the consumers. For this, the pandemic must be conquered by humankind as soon as possible. Humankind is the most potent force on earth, and nothing is impossible for the combined might of humanity, if there is a strong will. One must never say no to hope.

In my continuing blog series on how to handle the stalls, objections, and real-world situations in sales caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, below you’ll find some suggested email responses to situations you may be running into.

Couple of things to remember about this challenging time:

1) Don’t pressure people right now. The challenges your prospects are going through are the same ones you are. If now isn’t a good time for them, respect that! Be concerned about how they are doing and ask them how they are getting along.

2) Respect the time frames they are giving you-and then schedule a call “just to check in” at the time they suggest.

3) Gently remind them this situation is temporary, and point to the progress countries like China, South Korea and Japan are making in reducing the spread of the virus.

4) Suggest, again gently, that you will reach out again in the upcoming weeks…

Here are some emails you may be getting, and some suggested wording for your responses to them:

Email from Prospect #1:

Dear…

“I have no updates on your proposal because our offices are closed, and we are all working remotely. Frankly, this isn’t a top priority for us right now… “

Response:

“Thanks for getting back to me during these rough times! I hope you and your family are staying safe…

“I’ll check back in with you in a couple of weeks just to see how you’re getting along.

“Until then, be well!”

Email from Prospect #2:

Dear…

“Sorry about my lack of response, but it’s been crazy here!

“For the time being, we’ve decided to focus on our current market and aren’t going to be looking into different markets right now.

“While I really liked what you had to offer, our board has made the decision to wait on anything new until the coronavirus plays itself out.

“I will keep in touch as things change… “

Response:

“Thanks for keeping in touch with me. Yes, this is an unfolding and unfamiliar situation, so I completely understand your company’s decision to concentrate on the local market for the time being.

“Things will change, as you know-for example, China has already been able to stop the spread of this (as has South Korea), and I feel this will continue (hope so!).

“Let’s touch base in a couple of weeks just to compare notes. How does next Tuesday, April 7th sound to you?”

Email from Prospect #3:

“Dear…

“I have received your emails…

“We have looked into your company before-and other vendors like yours-and we just haven’t seen your type of solution working for us.

“In addition, we are in full crisis mode here, as you can imagine, so we aren’t considering anything new like this for now.

“Hope you understand.”

Response:

NOTE: The Red Flag that they have “looked into your company before” and “we just haven’t seen your type of solution working for us… “is something you need to weigh heavily in deciding whether or not this is a true fit for your company or service…

My response would be:

“Thanks for your email and I completely understand that these are crisis times. I hope you are coping well.

“I will check in with you next month just to assess how your company’s situation is progressing in general, and how you are doing personally.

“Meantime hang in there and wash your hands. (insert smile emoji if you like.)”

Email from Prospect #4:

“Dear…

“This is a terrible time for people in our market to make any kind of buying decision as they have to travel to work with us. So, we aren’t interested at this time… “

Response:

“Thanks for your email and I hope you and your family are doing Okay.

“Interestingly, our market research shows us that people are going online these days even more than usual. I guess they have a lot of time on their hands at home. (insert smile emoji if you like.)

“Anyway, hopefully this situation will pass as governments get a handle of testing and quarantining their populations-much like China, South Korea, and Japan have done. The spread there has slowed considerably.

“As things begin getting back to normal, I’d love to reconnect with you to assess your plans for the third and fourth quarter. Would next month be a good time to reconnect?

“Let me know and be well… “

The thing to remember with all these emails is that you are acknowledging the situations they are dealing with (we all are dealing with), and yet you are also suggesting timeframes to get back in touch with them. In doing so, you remain in control of the sales situation.

As always, adapt these responses to your product, service, and company, and make sure to be empathetic yet do use the core selling skills that help you further the communication and the sale.

And stay safe out there!

With a slow start in the month of January from China, COVID-19 Pandemic has become the deadly disease – that has spread its deadly wings worldwide with more than 50,00,000 active cases worldwide. Lockdown and quarantine, social distancing, stay safe at home, etc are common trending words now. Everyone is trying to know about the awareness and readiness of COVID-19 to stay safe and protected from this deadly disease.

Symptoms of COVID-19

Initial symptoms of COVID-19 include cough, fever, body pain, sore throat, difficulty in breathing, running nose, loss of smell or taste, sneezing, headache, fatigue, body pain and rarely vomiting or diarrhea. It can spread to the lower respiratory tract and lungs – about 4-5 days that can cause Bronchitis and Pneumonia that manifests as breathlessness.

Awareness and Readiness of COVID-19

According to researches and reports that doctors from across the world are bringing to the world, social distancing and boost your immune system naturally are two key points that can keep you away from the deadly disease and may provide you a better way of living healthy life.

• Awareness and readiness of COVID-19 will be the helpful way for you to provide you with the secrets of healthy life.
• The sanitization can be the best solution to disinfect the virus
• Stay home and stay safe is key to break the chain
• Boost your immune system naturally – by adding some essential herbs in your diet through various sources
• Focusing on holistic treatment can be helpful in keeping you protected

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With the entire world buckling under the strain of the domino effect of the coronavirus on society, and people finding various ways to cope with the stress of it all, it seemed appropriate to drop a few observations into the pot.

It does not do any good to become paralysed with fear and anxiety over this thing. Like a hurricane or a wildfire, these things come along and they kill people, but they pass. And this too will pass. We need to be careful, super-hygenic and sensible, remaining calm and drinking lots of tea to make us feel better!

Many people are panicking as can be seen by the compulsive buying of toilet paper and other goods. With something like this, where you can actually do very little to avoid being infected, people are grabbing at things that they CAN do so that at least they feel like they are doing SOMETHING. But in fact the best thing that they can do is just minimise physical interaction with other people, and stay in their houses or accommodation as much as possible.

Just to repeat at this point, the avoidance actions you can take against the virus: Wash your hands with a virus killing anti-bacterial soap after touching anything outside your house. Do not touch your face at all until you have washed your hands. Do not get closer than 2 metres to other people. (One metre is suggested but I think this is a bit optimistic, and I would be happier with 3 or more metres personally – you can still have a conversation at a distance of 3 metres.) Do not congregate in crowds. Use hand sanitizer if you can’t wash your hands, and then wash them with soap and water as soon as you are able. Don’t shake hands with anybody, and of course, no kissing anyone outside of your own family or house. Eradicate physical contact with anybody outside your house until this is over.

Some people say that this is a punishment from God for the sins of the leaders of the nations, which could well be true. Others say that the Chinese launched this virus on purpose in order to drive overseas stocks down so they could buy up western companies at a fraction of their price. This is also a possibility. Others say it was caused by the unhygienic wild animal eating habits of the Chinese, which caused the virus to jump species, which is the most popular theory. I myself am still collating all the information and sifting out the fake news to try to make sense of the outbreak. What is pretty certain is that it was caused by a combination of greed and poverty.

What we actually need to do is support those who have tested positive, send them messages of encouragement and hope. Also be super supportive of nursing staff and doctors, and also any of those people who have to keep on working to ensure that you have food and supplies. Be kind to everyone at this time, putting aside petty irritations. Everyone is anxious to some degree, so give people some rope, and always be encouraging.

If you’re quarantined, enjoy the time with your family (if they are with you) and the same if your area is in lockdown. Make the most of the situation, so that good will come of this whole episode.

May the coronavirus soon be but a memory, consigned to history books.

The human world has just gone almost upside down. The recent pandemic has grabbed the everyday life of humans’ by the throat, and this happened all of a sudden. Fear has emerged from the darkness and has proliferated within the entire globe very swiftly, and this has paralyzed the routine works of humans. The Novel Corona Virus has brought in very many novel ways along with it, which were unknown to humans hitherto, rather neglected by them.

Now, many say that from now onwards, there will be a pre and post Novel Corona Virus era.

But, will humans become novel because of Novel Corona Virus? If we learn the essence of this painful pandemic, then we will see the emergence of a welcoming world on the other side of this heartbreak! On the other hand, if the lesson remains unread, then for sure, it will breed enmity between nations, which will take the world to novel confrontations.

Let’s hope for the best to happen. Let us have a bit of optimism and look forward to a better human society where there are no religious, caste, or racial discriminations.

Living With Novel Corona Virus or Covid 19 – Precautions

• Be hygienic always, anywhere, and at all costs. Maintaining personal hygiene is imperative.
• Whenever you move out, wear a face mask; for common use, a two-layered cloth mask is better. You can reuse the same after washing. You can also make it at home.
• While wearing and removing masks, you must take double care; you must not touch the middle portion by hand; always, hold the string for wearing and removing.
• Don’t place your mask carelessly here or there, after use. Always take it to your bathroom if washable and wash it with soap or detergent immediately. If it is a ‘one-time’ use mask, you must wash it in the same manner and put it in a plastic bag and then to the garbage bag. You can also cut the same into one or two pieces, as this will prevent somebody using the same again. After removing the mask, you must wash your hands.
• Remember, when you are out of your home, you won’t know whether the person near you is a Novel Corona Virus carrier. This practically means that your entire body is unhygienic and hence, never allow your hands to touch vulnerable parts of your body such as nose, eyes, and mouth.
• Always take a small bottle of hand sanitizer with you; this will be of great help to you when you are on the move.
• Forget about the handshake greeting; don’t greet by a handshake; instead, you can just fold your hands and nod your head. This is the best form of greeting.
• Sanitize your hands more often; when you are at home, you can use soap.
• It’s always good to take warm foods and drinks.
• Maintain individual distance; at least three feet away from another person.
• It’s sensible to stay away from crowded places, in any case, for these initial periods.
• Clean your hands and feet when you reach your home or workplace.
• When you reach your home, you must enter inside only after washing your feet. Straight away, you must have your bath.
• Take protein-rich food, which will make your resistance-level up and will enhance the overall immunity power.
• Do physical exercises regularly, which will help our body metabolism.
• Get in touch with a practicing physician if you feel something wrong with your body. Never attempt to do self medication.

Finally, we must learn the lesson taught by this Novel Corona Virus that human life is so fragile, and it can collapse even by a minute virus, which is not visible by the human naked-eye. Hence, we must throw away the hatred that we were carrying hitherto and must love one another. Let us become Novel Human Beings.

As a writer, it has been my inner most desire to have few days of uninterrupted isolation preferably within the comforts available in my house. Perhaps this has stemmed from the agonies of the frequent disturbances which I had to face while I was engrossed in the creative process of writing an article, story or book. When you are mustering and putting all your energies & focusing on a subject of your favorite creation, any disturbance hurts you very badly. You just need isolation without any disturbances to finish an article / poem / story or novel which is cooking in your mind. You don’t want anything between you and your chain of thoughts except your pen/paper or laptop. But other people, specially your near & dear ones do not understand/value all this. They will keep disturbing you for trivial things. And paradox is that they think that are doing this for your good only.

My innermost desire was fulfilled a few days back when I was tested positive for covid-19 and I had to remain home quarantined for 14 days. It happened ‘word for word’ in the same way which I have scripted in my mind. I was in my bedroom & there was absolutely no disturbance at all except the meals or drinks etc. which were kept on a table outside my room periodically by my wife.

But I could not use this dream situation for my intended advantage. There was a very subtle difference. Although the situation was according to the description of a dream situation but there was still a world of difference. It was similar to the difference between the enjoyment of sexual intercourse and getting raped. It was the difference of being a prisoner and a jail staff or being a patient and doctor. The environment is same for both but their ‘state of mind’ is totally opposite.

The situation was forced upon me. The critical element of my ‘free will’ was missing. Therefore, in spite of no disturbance and all available time during these two weeks of isolation, I was not able to write anything. Not even my minimum ritual of writing at least two pages which I was doing in spite of my all business over the years.

But I am a hard-core writer and hence to justify this time, I have created this article out of my experience. I Hope you will like reading this piece of creation.