Let’s Flatten the Curve of this Pandemic

It depends on everyone to play his/her part.

Covid-19 coronavirus depends on human-to-human interactions as the main means to transmit from one person to another. When we contact with each other less, the transmission breaks down or reduces significantly. Social distancing during this period of infection surge will flatten the curve of infections.

What we can do to combat Covid-19 is to stay home as much as possible. Go out only when absolutely necessary. Avoid crowded places when you are out. When you are out there, keep a safe distance of 1 metre from the next individual. Keep to your immediate household members. Connect with your relations via social media and do not visit them at this moment.

It seems like social isolation by staying at home. But, it is the only way to protect yourself and your family and also in the process protect your relations and their families. We seek our relations’ understanding if we refuse to meet up, at least for this period to flatten the infection curve.

In this age of social media, we can still maintain contacts with each other, albeit in cyberspace. Social media is a double-edged sword. It would be most unhelpful, if people simply forward messages, videos, audios, etc without establishing the facts and truths of the forwarded messages. This could raise more anxieties and fears unnecessarily on the recipients. We have to work to calm nerves and not to raise anxieties.

It is painful having to adjust to one month of partial lockdown. It is a small sacrifice to make than to endure long periods of this pandemic and worse still more deaths resulting from Covid-19.

With every crisis, there are opportunities and new ways of living this life. Something good may come out of it.

Keep safe!