“After two months sequestered at home in California, we packed up the family and drove to a rented house near Zion National Park in Utah. Here, restaurants and bars are open, but mostly empty for lack of tourists…”
“…a few weeks into quarantine, I went down to the kitchen for a late night snack, and saw my dad sitting there alone. He just started apologizing for how I couldn’t be in college and how everything was so upside down. Then he said, ‘After communism, I never thought I’d see the day we’d have to wait in lines to go to the grocery store with empty shelves again.’”
“It’s odd, though, as the days roll by with sunshine, the full arrival of Spring, and a seeming “normalcy” except for quieter streets and sidewalks not to occasionally be struck hard with a sense that some dark beast is silently slouching our way–that this seeming normalcy is utterly superficial and spurious, a fool’s paradise, and that all over the country and around the world something truly dark and terrible is occurring.”
“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…”
“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。”
“回家20天左右的时候，我意识到自己带的药可能不能坚持到疫情完全解除了。[…] 我还没有向家里出柜和坦白我生病的事情，所以我只能跟家人撒谎，说慢性鼻炎发作，比较严重，需要去取药，才出了门。”
“caused me need to move out from my student dorm and find another place to stay locally.”
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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