While I agree that this might have been a necessary step, I am skeptical about the optimism part in your response. There are millions of people (daily wage labourers, vegetable and fruit vendors, petty shop owners etc.) in India who just have enough earnings to survive for a day or two and there are quite a sizeable number who barely earn enough to feed and clothe themselves. I don't know how they are going to survive the lockdown period. The government has (or probably will) announce some remedial measures (like distributing subsidised food grains etc.) but given the corruption I am unsure all of the subsidy benefits will be well used. (Cases like flood/drought relief being misused is not unheard of). Add to it the fact that it is the whole country that is affected (unlike in past cases where a state was flooded and relief poured in from other parts of the country), and due to disastrous nature of this epidemic (need to keep the social distance) running any relief efforts in itself presents a challenge. I just pray, and hope.