Reducing intensity of the covid-19 pandemic has not reduced the intensity of the stress mounting on the hearts and minds of the people who have lost their loved ones to two consecutive high intensity waves of covid pandemic amid fear of arrival of a third high intensity wave. Since the interpersonal relations hit hard by the pandemic during first and second waves of the pandemic is yet to revive, the stress and trauma resulting in an unprecedented surge in deaths due to heart attacks across Jammu & Kashmir is yet to end. Pandemic has affected lives like never before only because of increasing stress and trauma noticed mostly in the families of covid-19 victims during last two years. While the stress and trauma resulting in deaths due to heart attacks is yet to end, the uncertainty has shattered people economically, socially, physically and emotionally in Jammu & Kashmir like hapless populations in rest of the country. Interpersonal relations would surely reduce the stress and anxiety which has resulted in an unprecedented increase in the deaths of hundreds of covid patients due to heart attacks in Jammu & Kashmir but shockingly reduced frequency in flights and passenger train services forced by the fear of the arrival of third wave of the pandemic is also reducing the revival of physical contacts both at home and as well as public places. The loss of livelihoods has on one hand drastically reduced the intensity of interpersonal relations almost to 90% which has consequently increased the intensity of stress and trauma and on the other hand it has shattered people economically in Jammu and Kashmir. Whether stress and trauma among people is more in cities and towns or in villages, the revival of interpersonal relations is becoming an issue of core concern as it has a direct bearing on unprecedented surge in deaths of people due to heart attacks .
Though inter-personal relations have become a casualty because of the fear of infection and enforcement of social distancing, but there is scope for it’s gradual revival in presence of reducing existing wave of pandemic in a phased manner. With technology playing a major role in facilitating work from home and keeping connectivity intact, interpersonal relations have to be revived from a reduced level for reducing the intensity of stress and trauma becoming the cause of increasing deaths due to heart attacks in Jammu & Kashmir.
Merely upgrading the medical facilities in hospitals for combating the possible arrival of the third wave of covid-19 pandemic can’t reduce the intensity of stress and trauma resulting in unprecedented surge in deaths due to heart attacks but the revival of interpersonal relations could reduce the intensity of the surge in heart attacks resulting in deaths of both covid and non covid patients both at homes and as well as in hospitals across Jammu & Kashmir. Though inter-personal relations have become a casualty because of the fear of infection and enforcement of social distancing, but there is scope for it’s gradual revival in presence of reducing existing wave of pandemic in a phased manner. With technology playing a major role in facilitating work from home and keeping connectivity intact, interpersonal relations have to be revived from a reduced level for reducing the intensity of stress and trauma becoming the cause of increasing deaths due to heart attacks in Jammu & Kashmir.
