My Pandemic Survival Plan Social distancing is a must for us to flatten the curve and survive this pandemic. We are in it together as our survival depends on each other. I am listing a few things I plan to that you can emulate and help us survive. QUESTION: What can you do if there is a lock down or more severe social distancing? MY RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. Practice Social Distancing as much as possible. Except for grocery and walks, I don’t plan to get out of my home. 2. Use my time inside our home to reconnect with friends through social media and the phone. I am sure most of them will find some company useful to distract them from the news. 3. Clean closets and identify old clothes that I can donate to charity. Many people will lose jobs and will need all the help that they can get during this time. I have clothes, including jackets and blankets, which I have not used for years. I have kept it as these are hardly used and I wa
Exactly one month after my 15 th birthday, I was surprised when my uncle picked me from school. I was told during the ride home that my mother was sick but I did not suspect anything. After all, she had cooked breakfast and teased me about being in a hurry to get to school to show the new clothes that she had got for my birthday. Only if I had known that would be the last I will ever see her, I would have clung to her till the end, said a proper goodbye and apologized for ever having hurt her. When I reached home, my father was crying and told me that my mom had died. As I did not react, my brother screamed and tried to convey the loss to me. Later I learned that my mom died at the hospital. I knew that she had gone with my dad to see her cardiologist for a check-up; who then told my parents that she was having a heart attack and admitted her in the hospital. Within an hour she was dead. It was a shock for all of us but it is I who did not realize the impact i