Sri Lanka, March 30 -- Like so many bad things, COVID-19 or Novel Coronavirus came across as something abstract, unreal, something which can't happen to you. Though its death rate made one think of the Medieval Plague, and three months after we heard of the first Coronavirus patient in this country, it all somehow seemed so far away last week, when the

curfew was announced.

When that happened, I decided to write a Coronavirus diary for my Face Book page. We were no longer working. The paper had shut down temporarily and we were home, not knowing when we could return to work. I had no assignment to cover the epidemic.

But there is something in you which rebels against the idea of being confined, mentally, spatially, turning your own hou...