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LUCKNOW l THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. UPENG/2020/04393 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 110 THE RISING NATIONAL ICON: YOGI Vishal Srivastav his Bhagwa attire resonates within people’s conscience, his or the Bharatiya Ja- grip on his own state brims peo- nata Party, foster- ple with the confidence that ing ties with people BJP is a party that is all focused from far flung East on development of the people. and the South was a In Yogi’s three recent rallies F task cut out. It re- in Bengal, Mamata Banerjee quired a special skill-set to pen- stood in disbelief that a leader etrate political bastions laden hailing from a far and wide state with decades of rusty leader- of UP, has such charismatic ship in West Bengal & Assam in presence in her own backyard. the East and Kerala & Tamil Yogi’s magic is set to yield re- Nadu in the South. Chief Min- sults in Assam too, where BJP ister Yogi Adityanath, being is looking for a second stint. the hard-task-master that he is, In his maiden two-wheeler became a preferred choice for rally in Coimbatore on Wednes- the party to bail it out in the day, CM Yogi yet again showed political waters in these states. that he is making silent inroads With his growing nation-wide into spaces where he is least popularity, Yogi is one man who expected. stands out distinctively With a quality of absolute amongst the star-studded BJP resolve, Yogi knows how to line-up. His fire-brand speeches ‘bend it like Beckham’ in his leave his opponents spellbound, party’s favour! PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR PERSPECTIVE www.firstindia.co.in I www.firstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefirstindia I facebook.com/thefirstindia I instagram.com/thefirstindia LUCKNOW | THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 2021 02 MY ONE YEAR WITH COVID-19: A CLINICAL EXPERIENCE DR RAMAWATAR SHARMA THE WRITER IS A PRACTISING DOCTOR WITH A SPECIAL INTEREST IN PSYCHOLOGY rankly speaking, a year back when I used to hear about the new virus in some parts of the world I took it lightly and considered it as a motivated exaggeration of a viral flu. When the national lockdown F was declared and curfew was clamped in Jaipur, I decided to continue my clinic despite some muted protest from my daughters as they were fear- ful of this unknown disease, they obviously were con- cerned about the risk to my life. I’m a curious person by nature and philosophically take death as part of life, hence, decided to understand the disease of the century. When, on day one of lock- down, I left for clinic from my The healers are home, there wasn’t a soul on friend in his late 50s sent me on earth are nothing, nothing It is beyond scope of this no longer friends, the road, everything was ab- a CT report of his lungs and a at all, before a billion time ul- article to go into details of philosophers, solutely still, a never before positive COVID-19 report. His tra small particle called virus. each question but as far as my and guides in experienced phenomenon in lungs were significantly af- Let us go back to nature and little experience is concerned, It is beyond scope of this article to go into details of these changing the life except during my fected with a CT score of over plant a tree and nurture it. Flu viruses can only be tamed times where each question but as far as my little experience is childhood in a small village 20. He was severely sick but concerned, Flu viruses can only be tamed by innate as Only natural lifestyle can save by innate as well as acquired things are more about sixty years back. refused hospitalisation after well as acquired immunity of the human body and a you otherwise your sickness immunity of the human body valuable than As almost every hospital watching what was happen- healthy lifestyle. Today we have COVID-19, tomorrow it is somebody’s opportunity. and a healthy lifestyle. Today people. We have and clinic in the city of over ing in Italy during those days. might be something entirely different. We have to learn Finally, should we worry we have COVID-19, tomorrow commercialised four million closed without a As those were the early days to live with viruses. You can get a vaccine shot but I think about virus so much that we it might be something entirely everything- proper timetable, sick people of the epidemic in India with that this virus might be past its prime virulence by the practically stop living a nor- different. We have to learn to education, were desperate. People started very limited information and time the global vaccination campaign is completed. We mal life? Are the so many ad- live with viruses. You can get medicine, trickling to my clinic from dis- options, he started losing have collected a lot of data about serious cases of visories from WHO and vari- a vaccine shot but I think that marriage, tant corners of the city, major- hope and his condition start- COVID-19 but missed grossly about milder cases ous governments worth this virus might be past its ity of them being cases with ed to deteriorate. I decided to something? Are you being prime virulence by the time politics, love, symptoms of common cold. visit his home and examine fleeced everywhere in the the global vaccination cam- body, brain, and As the clinical picture of him clinically. I talked him name of Covid-19? Would paign is completed. We have what not? Isn’t it COVID-19 was unknown I out of his depression and did there ever be a clinical diag- collected a lot of data about time we go back treated them symptomatically my little bit. Something nally I decided to continue ease . In my opinion those who nosis of COVID-19 or the serious cases of COVID-19 but to the basics of along with a boost of vitamin clicked somewhere and he and somehow survived get- have recovered from serious laboratory test be made the missed grossly about milder life? The most D and addition of vitamin B12 started improving, recovered ting infected despite closely sickness, have recovered more final essential ruling out or cases. Except for handful of powerful men on in vegetarian people. I didn’t within a week, and is hale and examining more than 500 because of their strong im- confirmatory mechanism? Is exceptions, outdoor patients earth are prescribe much of vitamin C hearty today. I think psychol- cases of Covid-19. I never used mune response . Remember, the test accurate beyond weren’t examined clinically nothing, nothing and zinc as typical Indian ogy has a significant role in any shield and separation medical science is a state of doubt? Are the various other hence, in future times, labora- at all, before a foods are already rich in them. improving human immune window as , in my judgment, perpetual confusion in so tests really absolutely neces- tory tests would be a mainstay billion-time Their cold recovered albeit response and this aspect they were useless in protect- many areas and considera- sary and specific to COVID-19 of final diagnosis, right some- ultra-small with a significantly slow pace needs a relook by researchers. ing me. I only trusted my food, tions other than cure are at or just general tests subject times and wrong other times particle called which later came to my notice Then came the storm or fearlessness, sound sleep and play, most of the times. to gross variations and, which would make treatment virus. Let us go that those were cases of COV- rather an avalanche. My regular exercises boosting my The healers are no longer thereby, open to arbitrary costly forever. Some of the back to nature ID-19. There were no testing WhatsApp message box was immunity. The antiviral drugs friends, philosophers and and individual interpreta- delicate and beautiful things facilities during those early always flooded and there was , though hugely expensive, ap- guides in these changing tions? Isn’t it high time for a of human life might be ar- and plant a tree days because most of the diag- regular flow of patients at the pear to have dubious value in times where things are more public debate to bring down chived for a number of dec- and nurture it. nostic centres were also shut clinic, majority of them came cure and so are steroids ex- valuable than people. We have the cost of treatment and ades. Arbitrary administra- Only a natural down. They started opening positive for Covid-19 on test- cept in cases of systematic commercialised everything- hospitalisation as both of tive orders by arrogant and lifestyle can save after some time when a gov- ing. I felt as though I was sit- shock though both are being education, medicine, mar- them have already gone be- unconcerned politicians you otherwise ernment advisory was re- ting on a volcano which might used extensively. Someday, riage, politics, love, body, yond the affordability of a would further suppress the your sickness is leased that they have to open engulf me any day . Should I someone might prove that brain and what not ? Isn’t it majority of the population? blooms of vibrant life. somebody’s their facilities. close my work place ? There they might have even contrib- time we go back to basics of Would vaccine be a real pana- THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY opportunity One day, one of my close was a huge dilemma but fi- uted to worsening of the dis- life? The most powerful men cea or a grand deception? 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