Hello my Readers,
Happy new year!
I sincerely hope that your new year has begun with good news and a positive outlook for the coming months!
As for myself, my new year was greeted with a Covid diagnosis, an experience that I feel compelled to share with you today, in the hopes of offering understanding and empathy.
The stigma of Covid is not reserved solely for the disease, but also for those who contract it, particularly those who identify as victims. Friends advised me to keep my diagnosis quiet, for fear of being seen as contributing to the spread of the disease, but this only served to amplify the loneliness and isolation that came with my illness.
I write this message with the hope of shedding light on the human dimension of Covid, and to express my solidarity with all those who are struggling. Let us all strive to overcome the fear and stigma of this disease together, and hold hope for a brighter future ahead.
This made me think:
Is there any reason to make you so secretive and keep you from informing people around you when you have contracted this VIRUS?
Is there anything to HIDE from the family and friends?
Is there something which makes you ashamed that how, why, and where I got it?
Is there a need to be so secretive about having Covid?
COVID is a virus and worldwide spreader for past two years, and it is going on….
I wrote on my blog about pandemic Panic and activities during the Lockdown etc.
This virus is Airborne and bound to get to everyone (as it is, COVID is a flu strain). also, it’s natural to get it as humans we are moving around, meeting people, eating out in Restaurants, going to parks.
For past two years we are hearing and experiencing Covid news, so obviously, we should have mentally prepared for it, that if we do not look after ourselves, sooner or later we may get it.
One side are the people, who do not believe in living their lives in Fear/Panic anymore and want to enjoy the normal routines, they are also not living?
People are more focused on how they got and from who they got rather than trying to recover faster by approaching a medical facility, getting checked, tested and carrying on….
No, here I have observed people are busy blaming, shaming and busy with storytelling, also refusing to get tested or go to a doctor so they can easily say its only flu and not Covid?
People should not be worried where, how who gave them or who they have contributed to ignorantly.
Yes of course, there is something called “Obligation” and it is ethical to inform the people that were exposed to us once we get it so that they become ALERT and are more aware of their symptoms, if we do not inform them then whoever get symptoms might think it is just the flu as their whole group did not get it.
Which can delay their treatment and the result we all know.
If you share with someone your experience and let others benefited as everyone’s symptoms are different and each one tries different remedies such as home-based formula, ayurved, homeopath, naturopath, and allopathy.
if we share our experience and inform the people around us, we might get more help and knowledge from others’ experience. That’s what I did.
Rather be open then being secretive that everything is fine etc and some people tend to lie to their own people? which is not necessary. There should not be any STIGMA attached to this Virus.
Live and believe in openness, acceptance and move on in life!
