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India is reeling under the third wave of Covid, as a punishment for the government to have allowed the Kumbh Mela to take place, in addition to state elections including in Uttar Pradesh. These poor hapless are hardly to blame but they are suffering it out, fighting for some oxygen cylinders for their loved ones. The supply is poor and in terribly short provision. Anxious relatives await the opportunity to provide oxygen for their loved ones who are suffering from the new strain or variant of Covid which is hitting the young badly and requiring them to augment their own supply with external oxygen from either cylinders or oxygen concentrators. In our own village, oxygen is manufactured. Why should we not get access to filled oxygen cylinders. Since 3 am at night, I have been waiting for a