Patna Diary
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Few observations in recent shop visits...
1) Recently I visited a sweet shop, I saw around 15-20 people and no one was standing in queue, they have blocked the entire counter and were standing in total contact.
I raised my voice and requested everyone to follow social distancing 3-4 people responded but most of them didn't.
• I felt basic responsibility towards Social distancing failed
2) Next, a man who was stood behind me, heard me so he took opportunity like most of us take and started blaming Present and Past every govt. for lockdown. He was an aged man so I thought of ignoring him to avoid any further discussions but later after 5 min noticed his spit was almost coming out in every sentence. This time I couldn't stop as I realised he had no mask. I said, you please stop taking and stop blaming anyone as you yourself is not wearing any mask and continuously talking. Then I looked around and noticed almost 75% people around that shop had not no Mask.
• Basic responsibility towards precautionary measures failed.
3) In the end, I thought of giving awareness to the shopkeeper considering he is not aware. I told him that please ensure people who stands here are actually standing under proper guidelines as Patna is red zone and this time is very critical. Shopkeeper responded, "Jisko jaise aana hai aayega". I stopped my communication with him as I noticed he himself didn't had masks or Gloves and left the place with my items..
• Lack of awareness or irresponsibility
I observed this situation in two three more shops silently in 2-3 days and understood that Govt can help only if we help ourselves else Disaster has just begun but worst is yet to hit all of us...
Just trying to bring some sense of Awareness... 🙏
