Hi all, testing my first journal entry here. I'm currently quarantined in my room in Bahrain. The government here locked down the country after only 20 cases were reported. We are now at around 400 cases and the situation looks like it's under control. While I am always eerie about centralized power, one cannot deny its efficiency in times like these.

I have been thinking often of how people's lives will change once this pandemic is over. Since many governments are requiring that their citizens share their live locations at all times, will people become more conscious of the fact that their phones spy on them? Will they be more reluctant to share details of their intimate lives on the internet, knowing that they are - or at least could be - watched? I hope that there could be some silver-lining in all this mayhem.

Salman