If you’ve been living under a rock during 2020 (and boy am I jealous), in a nutshell – there is an invisible assassin bouncing around the globe called Covid-19. This little terminator is taking down the human race, through none other than human contact (in this day and age of major human disconnection – go figure!).
Due to the repercussions of said killer, after moving back home to Australia from living and working overseas, I must quarantine in a hotel for 14-days upon arrival. This is mandatory. I have no say in it at all, no choice of what hotel or the food I’m given and I even have to pay for it! I have accepted all of this and decided to go into this once in a lifetime experience of forced confinement with a positive and open mindset.
Originally I chose to live stream the room I was not allowed to leave so that people could see what it looked like from the inside (pretty boring if you ask me, although interesting nonetheless) but more than anything, as a sort of personal experiment on the effects of my human nature when faced with knowing that at any possible moment of my being alone, I could very well not be… kind of like Big Brother but with only one contestant, never being able to leave the ‘have not room’ and instead of a cash prize, you get a cash invoice of $3000 (oh yes).
I soon discovered that Twitch only live-streams for max 48-hours (no that wasn’t just the internet dropping every now and again), so the on-going live stream attempt failed but in the almost 6-days the camera was active, I think I got enough evidence and results to conclude that experiment. I continued to blog about my daily thoughts on the experience from day zero until my dismissal on day 14, as well as conduct another experiment I like to call ‘Creativity in Confinement‘, where I was not only restricted from human interaction and being able to leave the room but chose to restrict myself from technology as well. Why? Because for the first time since I can remember, I didn’t need it. Like really did not need it. For anything. No humans, nowhere to go and no technology, meant no distractions and the opportunity for my brain to breathe and ideas to grow.
So welcome to ‘The Quarantine Chronicles’ by Shakira Krystal Jade.