“The hardest part of this has been the inability to interact and socialize with some of my friends, and then losing friends due to the distance over the pandemic.”
“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.”
“By late January, teachers were checking everyone’s temperature at the front gates of schools. We also had to rescheduled lunch time to make the cafeteria less crowded. As the virus became more of a problem, my school kept getting cancelled until February 12th, the end of the school year.”
“This situation affects me in a bad way and also in a good way because I think that all people are learning much more to value what they have and they are taking more seriously the situation, but also suddenly it affects me badly: I am not so nice with my family because I start to collapse with the feeling of confinement.”
“Here in Matehuala, which is the municipality where I live, the rules were established about 15 days ago, although I kept seeing people on the street as if it were a normal day; but for about a the past week, I have seen a decrease in the activity of people, by the closure of some businesses and the cancellation of face-to-face classes in schools.”
“My advice to others is don’t give up constitutional rights for the illusion of safety and to do research into COVID19 instead of believing everything on the news.”
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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