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Quarantine

 

 

Quarantine is really just in house prison. The defenition of quarantine is "A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, but do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis. It is distinct from medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population." It's prison, you can't go outside, you can't see other people. 

Everyone is supposed to work out or do some sort of activities during the day but what can you really do. You can't go to the gym, you're not supposed to go outside on a run or outside at all. You can't go for a bike ride. My family is pretty fortunate that we have the equipment that we have. My parents are able to workout now when they didn't have the time to back when school was in. My brother and I are able to stay in shape and get better at what we do and stay at our peek performance for our high level sports. 

School sucks even more now than it did. Yeah you could say oh, it's shorter days, oh, you get to wake up later. But it wasn't the time of waking up or the time spent at school that was making it bad. What was making it bad was the amount of work. What was making it bad was if a friend didn't show up to school that day. Online school is the worst of both worlds. Teachers think you have tons of time on our hands and pile on more and more work. At the end of the day I usually have a minimum of an hour one a half of homework. We don't even see our friends at all really. It's like saying that you really want to go to Disney world and then someone giving you a video of someone walking through the park. It's not really seeing people at all. 

The only good thing I can think of that is caused by this quarantine is starting new hobbys. I have more energy at the end of the day without the edge to just sit and have down time. I found new enjoyment in stringing lacrosse heads. I have already made money off of stringing lacrosse heads. I find almost my Zen place while stringing lacrosse heads. It's calming and relaxing. 

In the end all I want it to be free of this prison called quarantine.  

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Fitz...

What a great piece of writing. In your own voice you see through the bullshit of life in a powerful way, but you also see small glimpses of silver and shavings of gold in doing new things--like stringing lacrosse sticks--in a calm and Zen-like way. You are living sua-sponte without maybe realizing it. Nice work!

Will Hatten

I really agree with the statement at the end of the first paragraph of how quarantine is like prison, how you literally cannot do anything and how you are isolated. Very, very good piece.

Finn Hudson

I really liked how you talked about h9w you made new hobbies because I have felt the same way throughout the quarantine, also I really liked how you refer to quarantine as prison.

Chad

I really liked reading this, I can agree with your statement at the end of the first paragraph about how quarantine is like prison and how you can’t see other people. Really nice job.

Kevin Yuan

I like how in the first paragraph you give some facts to back up your opening statement. Nice writing.

Drew Callen

the quarantine prison metaphor is kind of funny to think about, but it’s basically true. I have also tried to make new hobbies throughout this time. Nice job

Mark

I liked how you included the definition of quarantine in your essay. The parallel structure was pretty good too.

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