7 days in Covid Quarantine

'Quarantine' was not an often used word until the Covid pandemic of 2020 made #Quarantine a trending item on twitter with quarantine videos becoming the laugh of every town. With my quarantine, the biggest challenge after the initial days of being in constant sleep mode, daze and throat pain, is maintaining the sense of one day merging into the next. The flood of medicines being delivered to your doorstep is another particular problem prevalent in Punjabi households where everyone loves administering medicines and home made solutions. The following 17 steps are the key functions that kept me busy on the average day:-

• wake up
• gargle and steam inhalation
• tea biscuit at doorstep
• medicines
• bath, pray
• zoom calls, work emails, work calls
• lunch at doorstep
• family calls
• read - Pitch Perfect by Srimoyi (done), The Brides Mirror
• sleep
• whatsapp audio with family on doorstep
• netflix, amazon prime, insta reels, LinkedIn
• dinner at doorstep
• podcast- Finshots, 100X Entrepreneur, Startup Operator, The Ranveer Show
• Walking on balcony alone
• read
• sleep
• Repeat

Another key factor of my quarantine days/ nights was the grouchiness index which increased substantially from the normal scale to a 10+.