The journal of a journalist working from home in quarantine
2020-03-27 10:26:50
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Breakfast: Waking up at 7 o'clock You go to the shower, but first go to the child's room, wake him up from sleep as he arrives late for school, but no. You remember that school is closed for days.
7:20 in the morning. Cereals, pineapples, sweet, salty? Understands that there is actually more left over from cat food than yours. All these days home supplies are running out.
7:30 pm Opens the email and looks at the announcements of various companies, banks, shops about how they are dealing with the crisis and the mechanisms they have chosen not to interrupt.
8am goes shopping at the supermarket. You buy so much food as if you had heard that coronavirus does not kill those who are overweight.
9:45 Enter the house and start the paranoia. You have a fever, a cough, and you feel it. "Did I get infected now that I left," he thinks to himself. He goes to wash his hands once more (for the lost count), then takes the thermometer. Measure and 36.5. "Don't work this out," he thinks to himself. Thinking and thinking until the time of meeting comes.
10.30 pm remembers missing code to access online meeting, urges colleagues to start with whatsapp. Confused looking around the house for a pen to mark while you're already on the phone.
10:35 Finally he goes into the meeting, he doesn't see any message, no talk that the phone was "mute", then you have nothing to say you have lost essence and the conversation has leaked. The meeting is over and you have nothing to wear. Something you hadn't even thought was going to happen before.
11.15 am goes for a little walk. You see a neighbor around the mat with your eyes or you are two feet away while greeting him.
11:30 You go home and find the cat on your laptop who has written a series of letters. Heck, when writing all these letters why can't I connect and work in my country.
11:45 you sit at the computer and go to Google: coronavirus meme, coronavirus conspiracy theory, coronavirus danger, coronavirus pushes events. And it reads and reads until it realizes how bad it all has left you.
12:15 lunch came. The dilemma: what to eat or what to eat before? After you sit down and eat and take in all the detective series. Well you deserve this break.
Looks like 4 o'clock is gone and at 5 you need to have the news ready to publish. But what to do? You google search got tired and nothing came to mind writing. Then say: Look, I'm doing my journal on a day of coronavirus, with this subject the chances of getting fired are slim.
* The Economist Source
