“Tokyo has been in lockdown for a month and school has closed earlier than usual.”
“In Japan, we don’t have any rules like a shelter-in-place order, so I can go anywhere, whenever I want, but I personally think that’s the biggest reason why the coronavirus in Japan has gone away slower than other countries.”
“Generally, my experience of a 14-day quarantine was pretty good. Minecraft and puzzles did help a lot. We, people who traveled back to Taiwan (I was coming back from the U.S.), have been ordered by our government to stay at home or at a hotel for 14 days.”
“During the pandemic, I hadn’t left the house a single time apart from going to the grocery store right next to where I live, to do some shopping.”
“Recently, I bought a guitar as I always wanted to learn how to play it so I’m practicing that every day. I’ve also done some painting, knitting, cooking, and baking. Additionally, I’ve started to grow some vegetables, e.g. bok choy, kale, tomatoes etc., with my mum on our balcony. Some days I’ll watch Netflix shows and YouTube.”
“Of course, we have to wear a mask when going outside, and we also have to keep social distancing. Many schools have reopened, most people are back to work, and the traffic has returned to normal, so things are looking good again!”
“In Hebrew it’s called בידוד…It started about 10 days ago. You’re only allowed to walk your dog and exercise 100 meters from your house.”
“I had a very good time in quarantine. I’ve played the computer all day, slept a lot and played guitar and piano. The only shortcoming for me was that I couldn’t meet my friends and play with my band.”
“I got the shock of my life when I found out that the senior pastor got infected with the coronavirus. Before I knew it, our church had become the largest cluster in the whole of Singapore. Having visited the church twice that week, I myself was worried that I could have been infected by the novel coronavirus.”
“There were no particular difficulties, but my institute, like many others, was not ready for distance learning, and some difficulties arose: for example, problems with the Internet, a poor-quality platform for conducting seminars and lectures. The hardest thing in my situation is the MacBook.”
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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