Personally, I didn't come to any particular harm by the quarantines.
I had good fortune, they weren't traumatic times for me. What were
those times like? They were "like nothing else," but also they were
remarkably like "nothing." They felt somewhat like a general strike
or a hurricane evacuation, but they also had this novel sci-fi
vacuity to the textture of the days. Huge, surreal absences. The
lack of transport nose and any sky-contrails was a big aspect. The
people were in hiding from one another, but also the big machines
were absent and silent.