Oxygen level of my best friend’s COVID positive mother is down to 67 right now as I write this post.. there are no oxygen cylinders available anywhere, no hospital beds. My father in law is suspected to be down with CRP as high as 85 but no Hospital will admit him without COVID report and when we get it three days later I am sure they won’t because there are no beds. My sister and brother in law are down. My CEO, friend philosopher and guide is down with COVID along with his wife. My close school friend who was starting her work on my fathers biography is down. After staying in Delhi for 4 decades, my close friend had to be taken from Delhi all the way to Dehradoon because that was nearest where a hospital bed was available. Every day I am losing someone known to me directly. There’s a riot like situation in crematoriums. That’s where the country has been taken to singularly by our absolutely self obsessed divisive and insensitive PM Modi, single-handedly. Soon he will come on TV and c...
Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri
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