Wednesday, March 18, 2020

The Corona Diary - living through self-quarantine

Corona Dairy - living through self-quarantine..

This is Corona virus season for the world. 7.5 billion people have been held to ransom by a 125 nm virus. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369385/

My home self-quarantine started on Saturday, 14th March 2020. After government asked all educational institutions in Bangalore to close for 2 weeks, feeling bit relieved. Since going for walk in the morning or evening is difficult,  been doing yoga at home with Anila almost 5 days a week 

Day 1, Saturday, 14 March 2020
Checking up WA posts from friends, reading  Times of India and online editions of Manorama, NY Times. New York times has made access free during the Covid 2019 time to enable dissemination of accurate news and facts. Went for a brief walk with Anila to the small park at 6 pm and to Reliance Fresh to buy veggies, provision and fruits. Chinnu is running a temperature and is tired. Jobin is working from home. Giving high vitamins fruits to kids to improve the general immunity. No medicines yet ..

Day 2, Sunday, 15/3/2020
Took off from church as a precaution for effective social distancing to prevent spread of nCovid 2019. People unaware of the damage they were causing in society, were merrily going for social gathering in church. Did walking with Anila in Post Office park and btief veggie shopping in Reliance Fresh at 6 30 pm. Back home by 7.15 pm. Chinnu is feeling much better. 

Day 3, Monday, 16/3/2020
Want to go to SBI, JNC br. to make payment of 1.5L to SBI Life, but resisted and stated at home. Extensive reading. Did evening walk with Anila in small park, 3 rounds and shopping at Reliance Fresh, collected milk. Back home by 7 pm.

Day 4, Tuesday, 17/3/2020
Got up at 4 am and went with Anila at 5.40 am to big park but park closed to prevent social contacts, aid social distancing. Walked around post office curb and reached home. Evening went for brief walk, again big park closed, shopping at Reliance Fresh. Saji achen messaged regarding prayers for world at 9 pm at church and home. Did at home.
Jobin put in his papers at Deloitte in prep for MBA at IESE Barcelona, Spain. Spain has almost 900 Vovid deaths so far. Italy deaths crosses 1200.

Day 5, Wednesday 18/3/2020
FN - carried shopping at RF. Did 2 trial recordings and on third trial recorded 2 videos on Basic Line Balancing and sent to students. Spent 4 hours researching and reading for 2 blogs on Cianiao logistics network in China. On plans to publish books of my writings, took off blogging.
Sent link of LB practice problems to sem1 CR, Soumyadeb.

Day 6, Thursday, 19 March 2020
As I went to collect milk at 6.15 am, roads were deserted. At 9 am, when I am writing this entry, roads are silent and empty in front of my home in Koramangala  sixth block, Bangalore. Can hear small time vegetable vendors on road shouting, pushing their vegetable carts. 
Planning giving Line balancing quiz by 9.30 pm. Students want it tomorrow 10 pm. Quiz ready. Modi gave a very depressing call to the nation on Corona virus by asking people to observe kanata curfew from 7 am to 9 pm on sunday 22 march. We expected great motivating words from him.

Day 7, Friday, 20 March 2020
Very less traffic on roads, nation on a temp lockdown.  Going to bank to pay abilify premium 1.5 L. Paid. Spoke to Mihir at bank. Clarified LB doubts to Sounyadeb. Got wireless headphones from Amazon. Took LB quiz for students from 10-10.20 pm. Big success. Anil kumar got a perfect 10. 

Day 8, Saturday,  21 March 2020.
No plan of outing. Get some rice and atta (wheat flour) and fruits and veggies .. Reading Sapiens from Yuval Noah Harari.

Day 8  Sunday, Curfew day.
7 am to 9 pm  total lockdown. At home, all the time. No church.

Day 9, Monday, March 23
Streets are still deserted. Have not gone out for 48 hours now. Went for brief shopping and collect milk.

Day 10, Tuesday, March 24.
At home whole day . Had tele-conf with VC madam reg SEE for sem4 MBA. Decided to go for 100% objective portal administered online quizzes to final sem students. Birthday..
PM Modi declared a 21 day lockout of the country from midnight tonight.till 15 April.

Day 11, Wednesday, March 25.
This morning I read for 2.5 hours and at the same time took a sunlight therapy for 1.5 hours. (100% free..). 
Feeling really good, on top of the world, after a bath. Planning to repeat this all 21 days of this lockout ..🙂👍

Day 12 Thursday, March 26
Sun therapy and reading till 9.30 am.
Coursera initial Google link circulated by Dean to operations faculty for comments. Have to start objective question preparation BPR 100 questions. Prepared 60 questions already, another 40 to go.
Discussed with Sajan on doing a mock DRY run, upto password entry screen, previous day of remote online objective exam for students logging from different parts of the country. 

Day 13 Friday, March 27
Spoke with Jiji in US,  got the ground reality there, quite grim. Reading and sunlight therapy for 1.5 hours.US has largest Covid infections in the world at 85K and 1100 deaths .. Spoke to George ninan and susan aunty in chingacanam kottayam, kerala. Also to Jacob pazhayakalam and aunty in chnigavanam.. They are all fine in home quarantine.. Online quiz RM for LSCM students 9 to 10 pm at portal.

Had a Zoom class with students of MBA sem2 sub supply chain on topic Supply chain visibility and supply chain transparency from 3 to 4.15 pm. 24 of 28 joined. Good discussions too. Quiz from 7 to 7.25 pm. About 18 of them could take it. 

Pic of me standing front of Reliance Fresh, koramangala this evening at 4.40 pm. Chinnu's mask. Limiting external environmental  exposure to avoid the Covid 19 virus contagion. Safe distancing and outing once in 36 hours is an effective strategy so far. 

Day 14 Saturday  March 28
Sun bathing, online classes

Day 15, Sunday March 29
Sun bathing, online classes on Zoom ..

Day 16, Monday, March 30
Sun bathing, 
online classes on Revenue Management 11.30 am

Day 17, Tuesday, March 31
Sun bathing, online classes on RM.First virtual Open Forum meeting. Report link on meeting..
http://knowledge22wisdom.blogspot.com/2020/03/virtual-open-forum-meeting.html

Day 18, Wednesday April 1
Had virtual meeting with MS Works team on setting up online learning. 
Set up meeting from 7-8 pm for MBA sem2, LSCM on RM models. Went perfectly fine.

Day 19, Thursday, April 2
Had revision meeting with sem2 MBA students from 12 noon to 1 pm. 
MBA virtual interview for 3 students over by 3.30 pm, all 3 ok. 
5 to 6.40 had TEAMS session with MBA sem 1 on Sequencing. 
7.30 OM quiz with MBA sem3 on RM models. Sushmitha top scores with 9.05.

Day 20, Friday, April 3
Went to Reliance Fresh for shopping in the morning by 7.30 am. Did heavy veg, fruits shopping.
Did 2 MBA students virtual interview, both ok.
5 pm mba sem1 OM class on sequencing. 
While standing in queue in front of Reliance Fresh, could see lot of old rotten vegetables and fruits being disposed of into box autos for disposal. Was surprised to find even on the twentieth day of country lockout, Reliance Fresh had racks full of vegetables, fruits and provisions,  shelves fully loaded. But all roads are deserted.
All these days I compulsorily do a 50 min sun therapy daily.
Did 5-6 pm online class for MBA sem 1 on OM and 8-9 pm case discussion on Are Indian anti supply chains stressed ? for MBA sem 3, Supply chain management. Interesting inputs came out of the discussion..

Day 21, Saturday, April 4
Took online class for sem2 (weekly off problem) 5-6 pm  full class and a case discussion on the stressed agri supply chains in India 8.30 - 9.30 pm, for sem4. About 5 out of 11 participated. US is very despairingly getting pulled into the quagmire called Covid 19.

Day 22, Sunday, April 5
No church services in India. A good thing. In Kerala not more than 3 people can gather inside church. All spiritual leaders should look at their actions aimed at conning the people. They need to concentrate more on serving the people than amassing riches for the church and themselves. This leads to grave misadministration of church assets by the bishops and their cronies. Instead of being servants of God, these people are working for the devil. The priorities change..

Day 23, Monday, Aptil 6
Anu birthday. TM Kurian acheyan called from Kochi. He is still having 2 day dialysis every week  but healthy. 
Did an area meeting with all Operations area faculty on TEAMS from 1 pm to 1.30 pm. Did 5 admission interviews online.
7 pm to 8, did a TEAMS case discussion with Sen 2 LSCM students on Cyber security in Supply chain. At 10  Sen 1 OM had a 50bmin long two attempt quiz on sequencing rules, including Johnson's method. 

Day 24, Tuesday , April 7
Mohanchayan's 42nd
death anniversary. 
Covid analysis for today. US slipping into serious trouble. Third day of 30,000 plus infections ..
Fid brief shopping, got milk, veggies and fruits. 
Took sem 1 online class on Project Management basics on TEAMS from 5-6.30 pm and a quiz at 10 pm. Good response. Quiz class average was 6.7.

Day 25, Wednesday, April 8
Did MBA sem 1 class, MBA sem 3 case discussion ABC Diet co.
US tops Covid deaths (1970) and infections (33000+), total infections cross 400,000 
Learning language translation app from google, google translate. Great, can speak and text is recorded and immediately translated. Communicated in Bengali, arabic, chinese and Portuguese language. Very empowering.  Conference call facility with 4 people on whatsapp.
Did my first blog from recorded speech text with some final editing. Post Corona scenario analysis ..

Day 26, Thursday 9 april '20
Covid global analysis  waiting to see how the pandemic opens up in Mumbai in the coming weeks. The lockdown is effective, but food distribution queues are very disturbing to see. No social distancing maintained.

Day 27  Friday 10 April '20 - GOOD FRIDAY
One very sad statistic is the very low recovery ratio of UK compared to Germany or South Korea. On sheet 2, I have done the comparative analysis of fatality and recovery ratios for 10 Aptil '20. British health authorities and politicians need to look at this urgently, with the British PM Boris Johnson out of the ICU.
Even though British medical education is considered top-class in the world, in this case of Covid 19 treatment and recovery, they have been a great failure. For UK, fatality % is 12.3% and recovery % is a meager 0.2% ..
Top 10 Covid countries in deaths click here. Did yoga. Sent out some money to Sibin Joseph, near Kottayam Medical college ..

Day 28, Saturday 11 April 2020
US breaches 2000 Corona virus deaths in a day for the first time this season ..11 April '20 at 5 am IST. 
33,000 + infections on this day  total US infections crossing 500,000 and total deaths crossing 18,000, just 150 behind Italy. .. 
Don't know whom to thank or blame .. 🤔🤔🤔🙂🙂
The US President Trump is torn between business interests to keep America open and healthcare interests to keep America closed under lockdown. The hapless US public is taking the brunt of this indecision fuelled by ignorance and selfish commercial interests of the Trump administration..
Did sun therapy.Took food at 12 noon after a 16 hour fast from last evening 8 pm. 1 pm LSCM class on Teams.5;pm OM vlass  doubt clearing on OM, project management. 

Day 29, Sunday, 12 Apr
Covid data click here .. 
US tops casualty list of Covid deaths.
Moodle Quiz for sem 1 OM from 12 to 1.30 pm.
Easter at home.

Day 30 Monday, 13 April '20
Covid data click here
Took class for sem 1 OM, case on ABC classification of infected countries (click here). Started TQM discussion. 
Did case study on Nestle Waters with sem 2 mba, LSCM .. went well.

Day 31 Tuesday 14 April '20
Covid data click here. 
Covid Treatment - Kerala model is being being appreciated globally. Click here for MIT Technology Review paper ..
At 10 AM Modi announces continuing lockdown till May 3, '20.
Dr. Saji Peter  PhD from UK, narrates his personal experience with family of 4, surviving their Covid ordeal, personal experience (click here)
MBA sem 1 OM - TQM, TEAMS class .. 5 pm.
So far done about 8 hrs classes on Xoom and 12 hrs classes of TEAMS for sem 1, sem 2 and sem 4 (7 + 4 +1 class).

Day 32 Wednesday 15 April 20
Covid data click here ..
Phd meeting with Nilanjan, 7-8 am over whatsapp.
PhD meeting Karthi 10 am
Sem 3 operations strategy 12 noon
Sem 1, OM 5 pm.

Day 33 Thursday 16 April '20
Covid data and analysis click here ..
Scatter diagram on tests per million population and deaths shows a clear negative correlation between tests and deaths. ie. higher tests leads to lower deaths. Sad day for US  2460 deaths in a day ..

Day 34 Friday 17 April 20
12 noon MBA sem 3 OS class, discussion EV
5 PM  MBA sem 1 OM class, 

Day 35 Saturday 18 april 20
7 am Nilanjan PhD merting called off, Nilanjan bad health 
10 am PhD meeting Karthi, called off . Busy withnoffice work

Day 36 Sunday 

Day 37, Monday, no impartus class

Day 38, Tuesday, impartus class LSCM on TEAMS,

Day 39, Wednesday   impartus class on TEAMS on OS sem3

Day 40, Thursday  no impartus class

Day 41 friday

Day 42 Saturday 

Day 43 Sunday 
Saw Parasite, South Korean movie. 

Day 44  Monday 
Saw Forrest Gump

Day 45 Tuesday 28 April 2020
Teams class lscm, efficient sc, effective sc  functional, innovative sc. Bullwhip effect in sc, 

Day 46
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