In the back of the masks

There may be as but no treatment for the COVID-19 virus, however in India and in different places, the one treatment has been the sour drugs of a countrywide lockdown. The brutal disruption of the lives and livelihoods of thousands and thousands of economically inclined electorate has been arduous to forget about even from the comfy social distance of our houses.

But, past the distressing photographs of hardship and poverty, many different merciless penalties of this disaster at the moment are rising, the struggling of chronically unwell non-COVID sufferers whose remedy is in limbo; the peril of inclined kids in a global the place priorities have modified; of ladies without a get away from bodily and sexual abuse by way of their companions; the prices to other folks with psychological well being problems in a time of world paranoia.

And maximum tragically, possibly, the trauma of those that lose family members however who’re denied even the chilly convenience of conventional rituals of parting. This isn’t, after all, a complete document of the collateral prices of the pandemic, however this is a reminder of the way a lot more must be completed to flatten the curve of struggling.