“After a strange year of semi-isolation and worrying, I am finally getting my first dose of the vaccine and I am very excited about it. I have a wedding to attend in April 2022, in Seville (Spain), and I am hoping that most of the countries achieve the so-called herd immunization, so that I can travel without restrictions and without fear of doing it.”
“Being an essential worker I still had to ride on the empty BART trains to work every day praying to God that I would not get this virus. I was hearing that at the clinic I worked at we were running short on supplies (i.e. hand sanitizer, mask, PPE). My anxiety was rising as we started to run out of protective gear and I was reusing a disposable mask going on day 5 already.”
“Когда вернулась в Москву, было страшно ходить в метро, люди в масках вводили в дикую тоску. Сейчас уже легче, хотя именно во вторую волну у меня заболела буквально вся семья.”
“This year stopped me from living my ultimate potential in my career. I’ve struggled to make it this year, I picked up warehouse jobs and driving jobs just to pass time. My life hasn’t been the same and I’m constantly changing my path of work because of the pandemic.”
“問題の根本は、いずれの場合も人々にある不安心理にある。得体が知れず、目に見えない新型コロナの急激な感染拡大状況に、いつ自分の身に襲いかかるか分からない不安や、感染した場合に重症化したり、後遺症が残ったり、場合によっては死に至るという不安があるからこそ人々は、政府が指導するように、手洗い・マスクを励行し、三密（密閉、密集、密接）を避け、極力移動を制限して、自粛生活を心がけている。”
“Somehow, I felt responsible
that my rage and envy
had mutated
into a virus,
caused a global pandemic
and that I was
the Queen of Corona.”
“I saw the wave coming way in advance of most. How’s that? I work with international schools and was due to host a conference in Bangkok on 21 February. Mid January the news from China started getting more pronounced and then our host school in Thailand shut down so we had to cancel our event. Sitting in Europe I could see the news of the virus going in all directions”
“Het is grappig om te zien dat handen wassen opeens een big deal is , maar naar mijn mening is je handen wassen altijd iets meer dan normaal…”
“…Lahat maayos na naka pag board sa Barko hanggang may isang family na symptomatic. […] Sineserved lahat mula sa tubig hanggang pagkaen namin sa mga rooms namin. Ngayon naka 12 days on isolation na kame at makaka uwe na sa mga pamilya namin…”
“굳이 살면서 꼭 필요치 않는것은 사라지는듯 하다… 코로나는 정말 무서운 전염성을 가진 수많은 사람들의 생명을 빼앗아가는 무서운 바이러스 그건 어느 것보다 비교할수 없지만 고통속에서의 잠시 장점을 표현해보며 잠시 안도를 해본다.”
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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