Country in pieces

 Old patients cannot find hospital beds. There is a scarcity of oxygen cylinders. Medicines are overcharged and not easily available. Millions are predicting a massive economic slowdown. 

India, at least, is in a very bad position. My mom is a volunteer at an NGO, so she helps people find hospital beds, etc. She needs to make at least a million calls for one patient!!

Today we have a lockdown. In India, we have a lockdown on weekends and lockdown-like restrictions on other days when only essential services are allowed.

Many migrant workers are moving back to their hometown. Their funda is that:

1. City life is expensive. Many say that why live in a 1bhk in Mumbai when you have a huge house in the village?
2. They've lost their jobs. Everyone is cost-cutting. So even small shop owners, etc need to unemploy their delivery people. Moreover, those with small shops need to themselves shut down their work.
3. They don't want to suffer again. Last time, migrant workers had a tough time going back to their villages. In their opinion, they'd rather leave now, before a full-time lockdown happens.

They say that they will do farming.

How is life for others?

Bad.

My dad has started cost-cutting already. Even for people who own their own companies, we are having a tough time.