Caught off Guard

Situation in and around my in-laws' village is grim. They had largely escaped the first wave but this one has caught them totally clueless. Test positivity is very high, there are people down with fever in most houses and hardly any hospitals around in case of complications. The district centres are overrun with desperate patients in need of beds and being charged huge sums. Everyone is hoping just to come out of it with least damage, hoping it'll go away as swiftly as it came.