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Suffering of My Relatives From COVID-19

Title (Dublin Core)

Suffering of My Relatives From COVID-19

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Description (Dublin Core)

Here is a story of how the pandemic affected some relatives of mine who currently live in India. Specifically, they live in Bangalore, in South India. Between January and February of this year, they caught the COVID-19 disease. Perhaps they got it while they were in the central city shopping area doing routine shopping. In any case, it afflicted my relatives strongly. Two of them died, having succumbed to COVID-19. A significant way in which the disease tormented them was in their loss of sense of taste. Once COVID-19 affected them, beyond experiencing much fatigue, chills, and body aches, they could not taste anything. My affected aunt had apparently claimed, "Everything tastes like mud." The loss of taste, fatigue, chills, fever, and breathing difficulty are standard symptoms for the COVID-19 disease, which may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Also, the pandemic affects different individuals in different ways. The disease progresses in its affecting people, with mild symptoms eventually developing to severe illness. Unfortunately, until the COVID-19 symptoms passed, quarantine measures were taken against my relatives; they were confined within their apartments. As I am close to these people not physically but in a familial sense - as I am currently living in the US – their suffering had a great emotional impact on me; and their welfare means much to me. l can also empathize with Indian COVID-19 suffering, especially the notion of suffering due to lack of taste. Indian culture greatly values cuisine, and taste is an associated factor of cuisine; therefore, loss of taste is quite significant.

Date (Dublin Core)

October 14, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Vinod R. Srinivasan

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Vinod R. Srinivasan

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

covid-19 symptoms - what does it say about the pandemic

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Health & Wellness
English Home & Family Life
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Bangalore
India
family
death
taste
cuisine
distress

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

written-piece
taste
suffering
COVID-19
exposure
India
Sensory History

Collection (Dublin Core)

Asian & Pacific Islander Voices
Deathways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/14/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/26/2021
04/15/2022

Item sets

Covid 19

This item was submitted on October 14, 2021 by Vinod R. Srinivasan using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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