Lockdown 3.0

Let me start with a small prayer for all the people fighting corona... The people in quarantine, admitted in hospital, all the people in the frontlines... The health workers, the social workers, the police and the volunteers... May God give them strength and take care of them... And, all the people who had lost their lives including our beloved actors... May God bless their Souls. RIP. And, lastly all my fellow beings staying home and supporting this fight (including me!). Stay home, Stay safe!!

Day... 1st May 2020. Just a few hours back we all got the news of extension of lockdown! 

Lockdown 3.0 : 4th May to 17th May (2 weeks)!

This extension, in my opinion, is very much required especially in regions classified as RED zone! I happen to reside in Bangalore, one of the district in red zone. 

There are a total of 3 red zones in Karnataka, as of today (according to data from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India (GoI)) and 13 districts are declared orange zones and rest 14 districts are green zones (where there haven't been any cases in last 21 days!). Zone classification is based on factors such as the number of novel coronavirus (covid19) cases, doubling rate of the cases and the extent of testing and surveillance.

I am basically from Kerala and settled in Bangalore for now, because of my job, with my parents! I just hope that with relaxations in Green zones new cases don't pop up there! And, with lockdown extension the cases would come down in the rest!

It's been over a month since we had been in lockdown. Many of us are doing work from home and since my job involves testing not much can be done from home! So, I had been free to do whatever I wanted (and, trust me, there's been a lot of things that I wanted to do) but time just flew. Before I knew one month was over... Just like that! Probably I would have to start office from next week (too much delay in projects, management decides!).

As the day nears I suddenly realise that there was so much that I could have done - so much that I could do - so much that I don't want to stop doing like reading. I used to read a lot. There's still a huge collection of books in my shelf here as well as in my home in hometown. And now my phone's taken up half the memory with epubs that I had downloaded in the hope that I would read but I had never gotten time! Some how in the busy life of mine, they just got pushed back in the priority queue! I dread going back to that busy life... Home-Office-Home... The Routine Life!!

I guess it's HIGH time to make some resolutions... Resolutions for a healthy life... Physical and Mental well-being! One of them being finding time every day to do something for myself... anything at all - a solely myself time! 

Other resolutions, well, thanks to my amma (She's a neat freak... There's always a sanitizer and handwash and a pack of tissues in her bag... Even in those pre-Covid days!), hygiene had always been of high priority in our household. That needs to be maintained and shared... Not just personal but we need to keep our environment clean too!

Such a big lesson this dreadful time has taught us! Hope the teachings stay with us always and we never forget. Let's support this fight. Stay Home, Stay Safe and Save lives!

And, lastly I would like to add, we are safe and secure at home but there are many who are stranded, who has lost their jobs, whose future is a big question mark, lets get together and do whatever we can in our capability!! Like there are so many NGOs working towards providing food to them. Kindly contribute. Thank you.

I believe I am not the only one who feels the same. I would like to hear a few thoughts and know how all of you are coping. Please feel free to jot down your views in the comments section. Thank you.