Martin Luther King Jr Students wearing face masks walk with their belongings after completing 14-days of quarantine at a hotel Pine Spring during government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Srinagar on April 2, 2020. KL Image : Bilal Bahadur For ages Kashmiris carry a unique yet strange sense of security, perceiving the vale as a uniquely safe microcosm with certain privileges, others are devoid of. Though more of a mental frame, the majority of the population breathes it as faith. Explanations are myriad, for some its religiosity makes it more secure specifically against natural calamities, and for others its location and atmosphere. Hence the constant cry of denial is still being heard through seldom now, despite its duration of more than one year,