No proper power supply. No proper replies as to when it will normalise.
At this point even mobile network is worse than 2g. Takes ages to send simple text tweet. Town as good as cut off from civilization apart from the very few handles still able to connect.
I do hope someone is planning to drag @MSEDCL to court for damages. Perishables spoiling in every home. Professional losses. Shops losing money on milk etc that gets spoiled. Some of my rarer plants dying after 4 days of summer heat without misting system to protect them.
@MSEDCL Posted last tweet and power resumed. Thankfully, because kid absolutely refused to let his fan be switched off.
Screamed in outrage, his fan and TV were on all through. He's had enough. Normally very easygoing, this one, but he's had ENOUGH of power cuts.
Can't blame him.
@MSEDCL On stray note, kid can be impressive when he loses his temper. Takes after me like that. Very rare for him to be angry or uncooperative, but when he does, it is absolute.
And he's reached end of patience on power cuts. Took 3 days, but he's there. RAGE if TV or fan switches off.
@MSEDCL Power is back, but he doesn't understand that. Anyone who even passes by the switches is getting suspicious and hostile looks.
@MSEDCL The one lion roaring in a home full of sheep fearing power cuts. lol
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Bad mood. Messaged to ask a seller something.That was the format for years. He'd reply with info. No chitchat
His cousin replied. He died 2 months ago. Covid. Never talked to him, paid online, he shipped. Didn't even register as a human till someoe else answered his messages.
Every day some weird aspect of how the world has changed hits. Neighbours nosy kids invading home without masks becomes a threat. "Cylinder needed" is no longer a cooking gas cylinder by default. More likely oxygen cylinder. Read someone died in one tab, crack joke in another.
i don't feel bad about the seller as a person. I legit didn't know him. I'm unnerved by random people vanishing and what will be left by the time the pandemic is done. Much humor these days is just shock and denial I think. Traumatized people pretending everything is normal.
Hindu Rashtra was ALWAYS a myth. India was never one country till independence and it was not a country based on a religious identity.
All those "natives" of Hindu Rashtra grew up in good old Congress ruled secular India now trying to demolish their origins for a fantasy.
Before the British, India was a whole bunch of separate kingdoms, none of which suffered from religious xenophobia with Muslim rulers having trusted Hindu senior officials and vice versa.
If India "belongs" to the religion that ruled it most, that would be Buddhism in any case.
Hindu Rashtra is little more than an imaginary concept that at times was about all the land ever ruled by a Hindu ruler being one country, at other times going by Hindu as a regional identity rather than religious and at still other times, as upper caste Hindu supremacy.
"Instead of criticizing, why don't you say what vaccine solution is?"
And here I thought I was saying for days. Listen up again.
1. Ramp up procurement and number of vaccines administered to max possible, fastest possible.
2. Dump Cowin
3. Do public information messages asking people to stay home and isolated. Stop vaccination for broad population requiring queues and crowds till massive availability. Appointments stuff is fine for elite.
4. Finish vaccination of doctors FIRST before dancing about others.
5. Once doctors are vaccinated, ensure vaccination of all medical and medicine adjacent staff - hospital staff, ambulance operators, medical store owners, cafeteria/hotel staff near covid hospitals...
Normally I don't tweet so much local #VasaiVirar news, but now that I've whined about our horrendous power supply, might as well go on about the horrendous #Covid19 situation for a bit too.
To begin with, little public awareness on masking. 1/n
We are allegedly under lockdown, but this is a common sight. The lockdown basically counts on obedient shopkeepers cooperating.
The perception is that we don't have a lot of cases in our area, so the lockdown is just a formality 2/n
But are the number of cases in #VasaiVirar really as low as claimed?
A 55% positivity rate would imply otherwise. It sounds like we don't test unless we are reasonably certain it will be positive. indianexpress.com/article/cities…
Even with conservative use of power, no idea how long inverter can last. Working so far with no fan use and minimum lights use since last night. Laptop charged, phone charged. Laptop can charge phone if inverter gives out. Peak inefficiency #CycloneTauktae#VasaiVirar#Nalasopara
Would MAHADISCOM accept outages in paying the electricity bill? What is their excuse for routine power outages in an urban area in the year 2021?
Every person in Vasai-Virar is fed up of electricity woes. Now people going through pandemic + cyclone without electricity.
This can't be blamed on #CycloneTauktae because we have power outages all the time.
Peak summer, peak pandemic, unprecedented cyclone and power outages. Food spoiling, kids scared, phones running out of charge, people can't access emergency instructions because no power, no TV!