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.
“Rather than piling new projects on ourselves and holding ourselves accountable to the same overblown standards of productivity we ordinarily do, we have to accept that this pandemic has shifted every aspect of our lives.”
“My overwhelming urge to clean the entire house top to bottom was very much fueled by something other than myself…”
“Do I follow my initial reaction to go over, help pick up his bike, dust him off, and get him back on the road to catch up with his group—a group who hasn’t yet noticed he has fallen?”
“For a lot of us, it is not the same unimaginable grief felt by those who have lost loved ones to this pandemic. But it is grief nonetheless—a kind of hollow emptiness”
“…Llevamos a nuestro perro al veterinario porque está enfermo. Pero tenemos que esperar en el coche mientras el perro entra solo.”
“We just started a time capsule together, to track more information for us to remember in the future, but I guess that the best part will be to ask them to write a letter for them to read in the future.”
“隔离期间我每天都会在小区附近走trails,也开始在跑步机上练习跑步,参加zoom 瑜伽课和其他娱乐活动。WeChat 朋友圈有各种group chat, 从团购,读书,瑜伽到烹调和对疫情的讨论比平日里热闹多了。”
“In Japan, it is very common to see people wearing face masks especially if they are sick or with a cough or sneeze a mask is worn out of respect for others. Why pollute another’s air? But, in the America, the wearing of a mask gave a negative denotation. Suddenly, because you are Asian, you became suspected of being a carrier, a cause of the disease and the change of life. The ugly side of even the most God-fearing person exuded nasty and hateful comments to Asians with activity of people coughing into the Asian face…”
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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