Health Adda

If difficult stretches of time throw us a challenge and make us think and behave differently, they also often emerge as life’s best TEACHERS. While the tone is of fear, gloom and lament on most lips nowadays, some are using this period as an opportunity to turn things completely around.  Many are going back into reviving their long-lost hobbies. The social media is throbbing with people displaying their musical talents, either rendering solo song s or getting together with other musicians on “tele” platforms to create complex music. In one of the displays, several musicians joined in from different parts of the globe to create a finely tuned “orchestra”! There are others who are reverting back to dancing, cooking, craftsmanship, yoga or fitness. All of them look surprisingly happy in the videos they post, their pursuits proving helpful in lifting their gloom and bringing a smile of accomplishment and joy onto their faces. Few seem to be discovering and enjoying their new avatar in ...

The ongoing explosive outbreak of COVID is bursting and splitting society like never before, turning many a table upside down. The reassuring and comforting words of leaders emanating from the TV channels that 80% of those infected will have mild or no symptoms, and only 5-10 % need to be wary, are not sounding soothing anymore. People are increasingly becoming witness to someone they “knew” having COVID and falling unluckily into the wrong basket of 5% or even made it into the unfortunate ditch of 2.8% and died, and are beginning to ask, “ How do I know which one I will fall into”? Three months ago, we were hailing the South Korean model of testing, testing and testing and believed that an early answer to “Do I have COVID?” would control the spread. We even had examples where over 150 people who attended a “party” were all tested and quarantined where only one symptomatic attendee had been positive. Two months down we are now been given to understand that “early detect...