“Being a big kid, my husband insisted on visiting every roller coaster ride at Epcot, Universal Studio, And Disney World […] On March 10 during our third theme park visit, I woke up with a pounding headache.”
“Post quarantine, I am ashamed to say that I am living a normal life…”
“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”
“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.”
“It is pointless to take these practices for preparation for a competition, because the competition doesn’t currently exist. To use the sportsman lingo, what I can do is maintenance work.”
“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…”
“I have been a Shin Buddhist all my life. […]We relied on each other for help and assistance. When times were hard, everyone shared what we had, everyone helped each other in the fields or to work on a project, be it church, community or neighborhood in need. If you had nothing to give, you offered your kind words, support or offer to help. […] In this time of Pandemic, I have seen many of the things I grew up with and recognize so much of the Shin Buddhist lessons I have heard and seen thru the years…”
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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