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Week 2 - March 16th Link to Week 1 Sunday we announce everyone to work from home and not report to office. Office will still be open to come and collect anything they will need. I go to office today and bring my stuff - Decathalon party table which I use as standing desk, my external monitor and keyboard. Also pick up San’s laptop charger.  I take my mother and son to Star Bazaar. It is closed. Govt has ordered closure of all Malls and movie theatres. Star Bazaar does not qualify as a Mall but still they were closed. We went to Big Bazaar. It was crowded as usual. Saw lot of people wearing masks. I got a doubt, perhaps its not a good idea to bring my mother and son. Monday, in my team half had come to office. We do the standup - some online, some physical. Around 11:30 AM I go to office to discuss a few things and also tell my team mates to not come to office from tomorrow.  Also meet a few from Sales team - they argued cannot work from home, how ...

Link to Week 0 Week 1 - March 9th - things started going south. Fast. First Italy and Iran hit the roof. Case after case started piling up. One Italian tourist was quarantined in Jaipur. Along with him the people he came in contact with. Another Indian who travelled from Italy and landed in Delhi - he went around and infected a few. I heard murmurs of - oh this is all a conspiracy to quell the CAA protests that are happening. This virus wont come to India. Saw Whatsapp forwards of how this virus does not last in hot weather. By Wednesday couple of cases in Karnataka got identified. In Bangalore. Rumour mills were working over time. Someone from Dell had tested positive. Some 2606 humans have come in contact - the newspaper said. Wow - we could calculate with so much precision?! Thursday schools in Bangalore started closing. Parents wanted schools to close without exams. I was little confused. Just last week I had started the drill of making Prithvi study. He was reading one chapter a d...

And here we are. 2020 has just begun. Human race experiences another challenge. Nature plays its hand now. A virus has got loose from animals and is now spreading among humans. What is your move Humans? I will be documenting my journey through this phase of my life. I am in Week 2 as I am blogging this - looking back how Week 0 and Week 1 were. [ I am a programmer. Things start at 0 :) ] Not sure how Week 4 and on will be. Historians - you are going to study this phase of Human Civilization - here is the story as it happens from the view point of a Bangalore Bootstrapped Entrepreneur.  This is my Week 0. Today is Monday, March 2, 2020. Friday is Board meeting. San has booked tickets to go to Dubai - she has lined up few meetings. We are debating whether she has to go. She messages some UAE friends and they are saying things are fine. Things are as usual. No cases found. We are worried, what if she lands there and she get quarantined and becomes incommunicado? Or when she gets back ...