No panic and push comes to shove situations on train platforms if this rain continues over the next three to four days. If a mad rush ensues, then, all our efforts at containment will be washed away in the first deluge itself and we’ll be back to a horror situation like at the start of the second wave.
Waterlogging on the Sion-Panvel Highway at Chunabhatti on Wednesday. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
Wear a mask, the rains are not an excuse to remove the covering. Medical professionals advocate the mask in all seasons, so heavy rains cannot be a pretext for removing the mask saying it will get wet or it is uncomfortable or whatever it is that rule breakers come up with. Do not use the climate as a licence to throw caution and mandatory covering to the winds.
Do not gadabout in groups at rain revelry places like beaches and sea-facing promenades. Please keep in mind that we are in the midst of an outbreak. Police personnel are already deployed at vaccine centres. You cannot stretch the already-thin resources through dangerous cavorting near the waves and water, descending on to rocks as happens every rain. Exercise grey cells and responsibility.
Finally, vaccination centre officials must ensure discipline on their premises and see that beneficiaries have basic amenities to shield them from the rains. No shelter from the rains cannot be one more reason to stop people from getting the shot.
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