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5 Techniques to Survive Quarantine
From someone who has been at it for five months. Sort of.
I’ve travelled through thirty-nine countries across four continents, lived permanently in three different countries in Europe and Africa, and I had never, ever had my freedom of movement stripped from me.
That is, until I moved to Johannesburg in November 2019. Johannesburg, like South Africa, is a beautiful, exciting place full of incredible potential, but large parts of it are still fairly dangerous to be in.
In the CBD (Central Business District, i.e. the centre of town) you simply do not walk around. Period. The concept of leaving your flat to walk out to the shops, or just go for a stroll, is an alien one for most people, and especially if you are not a local, i.e. look clueless as to which corners to turn and which to avoid.
I went from living in European cities without giving much thought at all to where I was walking, to peacefully strolling across tea plantations in rural Malawi, to working from home & taking an Uber to do my groceries, because walking around stopped being an option most of the time.
THAT was the big adjustment. The current quarantine is sort of what I was doing already, hence I’m finding it…
