Question

Hello guys please share me Corona virus : your lockdown story
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Answer 1

boring time ........................

Answer 2

Art by Adrija Ghosh

Repeated trips to the refrigerator, a forced acquaintance with video conferencing apps, the ringing of an alarm that signals it’s time for your parent — an essential worker — to leave the safety of the home, the music from a neighbour’s balcony: the coronavirus pandemic has bequeathed a strange landscape to our lives and immediate environs. Small moments and thoughts — once insignificant — now have a weight they didn’t before.

This crowd-sourced collection of narratives highlights fragments of life during a lockdown — from Mumbai to Jerusalem to Lugo; a record of the fears, anxieties, uncertainties and quiet joys that make up our days (and nights) as the world is gripped by a crisis.

'Comfort zone'

I have never liked video calls. Or video conferencing or video anything. If there’s a camera, static or otherwise, I’d always rather be behind it than on it. But perhaps the Universe needed to orchestrate something extreme to change my mind. And COVID-19 happened. And we soon realised that social distancing is the exact opposite of social media distancing.

Before I knew it, I was downloading strange apps like Houseparty, and warily getting used to it. Having just moved to a new country, I suppose I was in the very gullible mindspace of buying into all things that made me feel closer to home, even if that meant having to step out of my comfort zone. But that was only level one.

I have been taking Hebrew lessons for a month now, and thanks to the pandemic, the real classroom had to shrink into a Zoom classroom. So someone who was just about negotiating the territory with close friends, had to switch to “pro” mode with near strangers, twice a week. What’s more, I now have to keep my eyes peeled on the virtual white board to read the teacher’s notes and attempt to speak the language too. So almost overnight I went from no video calls to doing it all, in Hebrew. A true child of the Corona, if you will.

We've been told the Universe conspires to give you something you really want. The reverse can be true too. When you really don't want something, the Universe may conspire harder to make sure you get it.