One of the customers handed over his debit card to the pharmacist but wasn’t allowed to enter the PIN himself. The new normal for several months will be to maintain social distance in everything we do, maintain personal hygiene and get used to relatively slow life in cities. In most media announcements about this disease in India, there is rarely any mention of the connection between TB and spitting. Amita Baviskar, a sociologist who specialises in social inequality and environment, said, “Everything depends on who is this ‘we’ we are talking about. We are in for a long and hard haul.”There is scientific evidence to back the need to continue social distancing.

Source: Hindustan Times March 29, 2020 18:34 UTC