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Many of us have experienced restrictions on movement and social contact during the pandemic. Talk about any restrictions that have especially affected you.
This is as much of the outside world that I've interacted with in person for the past 5 days since I've been stuck in quarantine in Thailand. Although I am able to call my friends and family all over the world with modern technology, it is still very different from in-person interactions and even small talk with random people at the grocery store could fulfill those needs for me, but unfortunately, I have not seen any real person in the past 5 days. Although food gets delivered to my room, the people delivering the food are instructed to not come in contact with the people in quarantine and thus knock to indicate that food has arrived, and then quickly leave the area outside my hotel door.
October 21, 2020
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Talk about what you think the world will be like after the pandemic is over.
Honestly...it is hard to imagine. I can hardly imagine life before the pandemic. It's strange to me that at the end of my life, only 18 years of my life will have been pre pandemic, just my childhood, and then a small "blip" of pandemic and so much of it "post." But it feels like it will be forever, between waiting on the vaccine, waiting for it to be distributed, waiting to create herd immunity. I don't know what the future will look like, but I imagine masks, much more often. A greater focus on hygiene and personal safety. An increased number of family gatherings and outings with friends to make up for time lost. I am hopeful, and optimistic, even while I wait in this pain and mourning and uncertainty. I wait and wonder, with millions of others.
October 21, 2020