Mrs Panic Button shares her experiences of a COVID hit Indian society with a lot of humour

 Dear Semi-Masked World, Last night I had a terrible nightmare, a tiny demonic spike protein swarming in globules all around my neck playing hide and seek on an N95 mask resting gleefully on my neck. While I left home to visit the bank, I had lectured all at home on how to wear a mask, but a few yards of walking to the bank in this summer heat, made me so very exhausted, that I had decided to pull down the Over-Protective 5 layered N95 on my neck and happily buy fruits from an unmaked fruit vendor on a day when the positivity rate in my city is almost 20 percent! Literally in the darkness of the night I jumped out of bed. Since from the days of Lockdown me and my husband stay in separate houses as a means of precaution as he has to attend office regularly, my sudden movement across the dark bed thankfully did not stir a soul. Everywhere I stared after splashing some water on my ghastly face, the naughty viruses still refused to move. Hallucination? Well, I am not on drugs, not even...

Dear Masked Humans, Everyday we have a Mask fight at home, trust me since early morning as maids troop in, the elderly members of the family are asked to Mask Up! With the maids given their respective masks, and yes, from surgical to N95, my cupboard these days have more masks than clothes! And then comes the shout! My 76 year old dad, who feels he has such an A1 body that even COVID will feel shy to attack him.  After a lot of convincing, skipping my own morning chores, he finally gives in and decides to wear a surgical mask (a full box arrived only the other day) and then he refuses to dispose that disposable mask daily, which is the rule. When asked why, his simple answer, that he cannot let Rs 5 down the drain everyday. Though the masks are bought by me, yet he has an issue. He feels every mask can be washed, dried and reworn! To join him in his super drama, my mom enters with a double mask. Being an immunosuppressed patient, she is very open to.wearing masks, only that they ar...