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 even visible to the naked eye ? Yes ! how dare they ? We humans are on top of the food chain and are the most intelligent beings ever, why should we be defeated by a virus after all ? I felt important to be able to tell my family across the other side of the globe that we are in a total lockdown. I exaggerated a bit, gloating in my self-importance of being part of a huge movement. A hollywood dejavu, remembering early sections of ghost towns in movies like "I am Legend" and feeling a vicarious sense of pleasure and terror in equal measure. 

Yea, we were supposed to be working from home indefinitely without any reason. It seemed like unbelievable. I had so much time now that I did not have to commute. Wow ! We stocked up on all groceries so no need to shop for a while. It seemed that I would have all the time in the world to do all the things I wanted to do, all while playing a socially cunning game against the micro-antagonists in this story. Hah ! I thought.. Little did I know that things were going to unravel pretty fast... when the natural order of things break down rapidly.. things are set in motion...