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Day 2

Woke up very late today... After all I had no reason to wake up at the same time, I had extra time, because I wasnt driving to anywhere, I neednt change out of my pajamas, hey, I dont even need to cook so early because I could cook "later" in the day. In any case there were plenty of snacks in the grocery bag, which I hadnt unpacked yet. There was fresh milk and I made myself a hot sweet chai and sat down on the couch to read the news. The man and the boy were still asleep so I had more time to myself, "me time"... Little did I know that this great poetry of a morning was the biggest first mistake I made that would unravel my day faster than I thought was possible. Later during the "light" day I caught up with a bunch of meetings, tousled with some code and dabbled half-heartedly with document. Lunch hour came and went and I didnt eat. " There is no need to eat at noon now that I am at home ",  I thought, foolishly to myself. 
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Day 1

It was incredible to me that what was seemingly a story that my parents told me when I was twelve years old, would be unfolding in front of my eyes. My parents had told me about emergency in 1970s in India, parts of which my dad had seen.  The evening alarms, the lights-off and stay at home when aircraft flew over to protect residential areas, were ephemeral in my mind. When the news came out on the 16th of March that 17th morning the county and parts of the state were going into partial-lockdown, I could not believe it. A wave of nostalgia hit me, when the phones buzzed with the legal order flashing on my screen in the morning declaring a lockdown. I was thrilled for a minute feeling incongruously heroic about being part of a battle, a statistical battle against those microbial villains. I minute later I was ashamed, Thousands of people had died and tens of rhousands were very sick and suffering. Then I got angry, why does humanity suffer due to pain inflicted by creatures not eve
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