Currently in Bangalore. The one day curfew on Sunday was promising. Just a day before the curfew, you could find large groups of people playing cricket, basketb

Currently in Bangalore. The one day curfew on Sunday was promising. Just a day before the curfew, you could find large groups of people playing cricket, basketball, going on walks, etc. That's mostly stopped, with the police strictly forcing people to disperse and go back home. A neighboring state chief minister just mentioned during a press meeting that people will be shot at sight if they leave their homes... without debating whether it's healthy to issue orders like that, I'm relatively confident that the quarantine will be executed effectively. My concern though: the economic pressure of staying indoors will make a 3 week long (minimum) quarantine very tough. Based on certain sources, more than half the workforce are daily wage labors. Every day they don't work, they're not paid and they don't have insurances / safety nets to leverage. Unless there's an influx of aid (from the government or otherwise) to help these folks pay for food / rent / pay back loans, etc. in the short term, there will be significant suffering, likely riot attempts and suicides. I'm already feeling significant panic from daily wage worker groups. There needs to be some kind of aid announcement ASAP to help them cope.