“I still haven’t heard from the university about whether I can stay on campus for the summer, and because of the airline restrictions, I can barely find an air ticket that will get me home…”
“…I’ve kind of been enjoying quarantine […] I was just happy to finally have time to myself to rest and not have to be around people for the next few months. I love my friends but it all got way to much for me and I needed a break […] I finally got some time to myself and I can finally hear myself think again…”
“每天正常生活，除了一开始买菜方面有点紧张外，其他的没有什么不适应或者感觉明显不舒服的地方。”
“…This was not my usual ‘I couldn’t sleep because I just watched a cute love story’. No, this was fear. Real fear. For the first time in my life, I felt true fear…”
“…Camping in the backyard, exchanging baby pictures over wine, practicing handstands against the fridge as others weave past flailing bodies…”
You should know that my professor, during the last class he would ever teach, asked whether we should sacrifice the lives of the elderly, people like him, so that we can survive. “Yes, I think you should” was his answer And after we said thank you and clapped, and left the meeting one by one, tears swelled up his eyes.
Around early March when many schools in the country were starting remote learning, many friends of mine who are international students from China were both physically and verbally assaulted (e.g. being pushed, being called names, yelled at, etc.) just because they wore a mask on the street or in the grocery store.
“主要影响肯定还是有关出行的，比如说去餐厅吃饭是不可行的在疫情期间，朋友之间的串门频率也会大大下降。”
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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