Shahat Rana says being in India right now, means constantly asking yourself, when will I get COVID?

It's like a circle that's closing in.

You hear a distant contact, then you hear your neighbor has COVID, then you hear a friend's parent has COVID.

Friends parent has died, grandparent has died, you know, my father's colleague has died, stuff like that.

So you hear these, like, it comes closer and closer to you and you wonder how long will you remain unscathed.

And that's not just me, that's everyone.

That's everyone these days.

You've probably heard the stories about hospitals that are over full

and simultaneously discharging body after body,

about the medicine that's in such short supply.

Oxygen, too.

If I needed oxygen in India right now, what would you tell me to do?

So the first thing would be if you're above sort of 92, if you're still in like 93, 94 range, you won't get a bed.

You won't be prioritized.

Jahat means if your oxygen saturation's low, it's got to be really low to get a doctor's attention.

So what would happen first is you will wait until it's like 92 to start panicking because there's nothing else to do.

If it's still dipping, then you start looking for an oxygen cylinder, a concentrator,

which you can install at home. Now for that, what you do is you start messaging everyone you know, you go to Instagram, you go to Twitter.

Jihad's social media feeds have been filled with these messages over the last few weeks.

Friends and family tapping out desperate memos, almost always marked urgent in all caps.

Have you seen these pleas work? Someone put information out and say, I really need

this right away and someone comes through for them? Yeah, it's worked. It's not worked. I'm sure quite a few

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