Novel phrases we are learning during this lockdown – social distancing, contact tracing, flattening the curve, etc. Imagine that you are practicing social distancing and bound by the zero-contact protocol, but the people who have come to collect their ration from you are so frail that they cannot lift their food packets – what choice are you left with? This is what we, who were engaged in survival food packet distribution work, faced recently in Chandrapur Development Block, Kamrup Metropolitan district in Assam.