“One interesting thing I noticed during quarantine is the development of online shopping, especially in my own life and with my family. I have changed to sometimes prefer online shopping as opposed to shopping inside of stores because of convenience…Quarantine has definitely changed many aspects of my life and how my perspective.”
“I usually am a very happy person but this year, due to the constant routine of school without seeing friends or leaving my environment, I felt small stints of sadness and even depression. It wasn’t major or anything, but enough to make me realize the effect quarantine had on me.”
“My mom would tell us at dinner that a lot of people were scared but pain was a motivator to come into the office. The quarantine was stressful for everyone, but I was proud of my mom, because of her resilience to the diversity she was facing every day.”
“My life in quarantine is…well, not many words can accurately describe it to be very honest. I’ve experienced re-entering my trauma, a break-up, family passing, etc. From each moment that I experienced, I hope to write about it so I can heal and for you, the reader, to dive into my experiences…”
“Everyone was being affected by the coronavirus and no one was safe. Not only were people dying of the coronavirus, but I had people in my life suffering from other things.”
“Being physically separate from others has seriously impacted the sense of community here, and I sense it will be difficult to get that back. The political divides that have become deep, and the different outlooks on COVID and societal restrictions, have pervaded too many things.”
“After a strange year of semi-isolation and worrying, I am finally getting my first dose of the vaccine and I am very excited about it. I have a wedding to attend in April 2022, in Seville (Spain), and I am hoping that most of the countries achieve the so-called herd immunization, so that I can travel without restrictions and without fear of doing it.”
“…I also had to take food up to my Mother because she was afraid to go to the store to shop. I took her for drives along the beach to cheer her up.”
“In our home we have three generations. I am the Grandmother, my daughter and son in law with their now two teenage children all live together. It’s been difficult for the kids to be isolated from school and friends. They have missed important milestones…”
“Due to Covid-19, I have been in strict quarantine due to the fact that I live with my grandmother…Academically, this has also affected my ability to take the SAT and ACT, which is something I felt disappointed about because I spent so much time studying for them.”
Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic is an initiative sponsored by the Poetic Media Lab and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University.
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