Having A Quarantine Companion
Maeve Boler
Dr. Lewis
English 2021
20 September 2020
Having a Quarantine Companion
"Friendships decay when you don't see people, and they decay quite fast" (qtd. in Beaty), according to Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford. During quarantine, I had very limited contact with friends, mostly seeing them over FaceTime. Separated from others, I felt lonely at times, and part of me wanted to yell, "Screw Corona" and live my normal life how it was just months before. The other half of me feared the unknown. I did not know who was infected; nobody knew the long-term effects of the virus, and there was only false news and estimations of when it ...
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I was able to spend time with my best friend. My friend Yulia, my younger sister, my dad, and I landed at MSP International Airport around 11 p.m., disembarking from an indirect flight from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I exited the bright, fluorescent lighting of the airport mask-less, entering into the blackness of an early spring night, loading our bags into the dark grey Suburban my mom and older sister drove to retrieve us. I got into the truck, noticing my mom and sister in the front seats wearing the blue surgical masks I commonly saw on Grey's Anatomy. They were trying to keep whatever distance possible while confined to one vehicle on a drive first to drop off Yulia at her home and next to return to our own house. When we arrived at her house, I got out to help grab her bag and give a slight wave goodbye before climbing back into the truck to complete the journey home. When the four of us left for Mexico, we had heard about an epidemic in China that was spreading, but when we had ...
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simply stated, "That does not mean they aren't asymptomatic, and plus it can take up to two weeks for people to show symptoms." After a pause she continued, announcing to me in a soft, pleading voice, "Maeve, people are dying."
I spent the next week quarantined with my parents' enforcement, leaving once to get books after my school had announced the plan to continue online for the time being. Within ten days of my return from traveling, Governor Walz announced a stay-at-home order to help prevent the spread of this malicious virus. I spent most days in my room. I worked on school and braiding my long, dark hair, something I focused on getting better at during quarantine. I felt immense ...
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