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Aishwaryaa R Dhanush on the importance of masking up

Aishwaryaa R Dhanush took to her social media to talk about weari... Read More
With India recording highest single-day spike of 77, 266

COVID-19

cases today, the need and importance to wear a mask, maintaining social distancing and to sanitize often is spoken about much more vigorously. Aishwaryaa R Dhanush is the latest

Kollywood

celebrity to speak about the importance of wearing a mask.

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She says that we can make the doctors job easier by wearing a mask and maintaining social distancing. He post read, "Like my dear co-brother, a cardiologist himself rightly put and I quote “COVID-19 is neither a joke nor a farce my dear friends. It actually pains to see even well-learned people talk like that. Day in and day out when we see this deadly virus behaving differently and causing more harm, most of the time we doctors feel helpless. We see a 93 year old recovering and coming out and a 32 year old succumbing to

COVID

on the same day.
COVID chooses its own course...
-no one is invincible
-behavioural pattern of the disease keeps varying with every individual
-it bites (symptomatic)some
-it licks (asymptomatic)some
But the problem is with the people whom it licks(asymptomatic) and goes away. They are the ones who have this false confidence and spread theories like what I said in the beginning and are spreading the disease like wild fire without social responsibility.
Unless COVID hits someone I know badly, I won’t respect it - is a bad self-centric attitude. So, kindly stop spreading rumours like it’s farce, scam, nothin etc and start following the safety norms.
Is wearing a mask such a big deal or difficulty ?”- Dr J Karthik Anjaneyan MD DM Cardiologist. @dranjee
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I have doctors in the family and I hear their experiences and difficulties. We can’t make their jobs easier, but we can definitely help them by listening to them. #wearamask #staysafe"


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