As the situation inside hospitals is getting better day by day, the bad days for the poor and low-income group people are telling the effects. People do not have jobs, and all their savings are now gone. Now they have to eat food with whatever little work they get on a day-to-day basis.
The number of coronavirus patients in hospitals has come down to almost normal limits. But even if the situation in hospitals is getting better day by day, the bad days for the poor and lowly earning people are not yet over. The lockdown had disturbed their life and what they earned. Migrants to the cities are suffering the most because of a lack of employment, money, and food.
I know a couple from my village living in a one-bedroom flat with his three children in a nearby town. He said, “I used to work in a hotel, making food in the kitchen”. He lost that job last year because of the pandemic. Then he started driving a cab, but because of the second wave, he lost that income as well. He said he had no money to feed his children now.
Another fellow said that they don’t have the money to pay the house rent, so we will have to vacate the flat. We have reached a point where we will sell our belongings to provide food for our children.
Another one said, “We have five kids, but none of them is of earning age.” He also said that whatever small savings they had were now exhausted, so they were looking for any work that was available to them. They said, “We are still alive by fighting the epidemic, but it seems like now we will die of hunger.
Yes, the government is saying get vaccinated first, then come to work. And that’s fair enough. We’re willing to get vaccinated. But this latest virus variant, Omicron, is scaring us again.
A 67-year-old person who used to work as a house help in a city and his son used to work as a laborer, but both of them are no longer employed, said, ‘I used to sweep the lawns and compounds, but during the second wave of COVID-19, I lost my job.‘
He says, “Last year we did not have enough money to survive. Now we’re fully vaccinated but not assured of a job.
His son said that I used to work as daily wage labor, and the local government has given permission to restart construction work and factories. The owner is saying, “Get yourself vaccinated first.” But no one is keeping us or saying that we will get our jobs back. The government did well and got the poor people vaccinated for free, which was our right.
A 25-year-old is the only person in his family who has studied up to graduation. He was working as an office boy in the city. He is now driving a cab to make both ends meet. as there is no job. He said that his family lives in the village, and he had to send money home.
That man said that the place where I am driving a cab during off hours and also working as an office boy so that he can eat and save because there is no other job. He said that my family lives in a nearby town, and I also have to send money home.
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Life is tough and managing finance is not easy.