There will be people who circumvent the quarantine. Human desires (including greed, drugs, and the sex drive) are what they are, and they push people to do unwise things. Just look at Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, the former having offed himself out of fear of a prison term with the pedophile tag on him and the latter seemingly destined to Riker's Island, not to be confused with such island paradises as Maui or New Zealand. (Or if one is intellectual, Manhattan).
Evading the quarantine may be shameful, but some of us might use it for constructive purposes -- seeking new employment if we dislike a job from which we got laid off, reading, listening to great music, or maybe creating something. The paint brush and canvas... or writing... await me. Heck, I am even thinking of doing a paint job on my laptop to make it less banal (I hope that what I write using it isn't so banal). Some of us might take the promised grant of $1000 and upgrade some skills online. Don't knock home improvements such as adding a new coat of paint or replacing the wallpaper.
When this quarantine is over I can think of many places that I want to go. Personal isolation is miserable -- bad enough for someone on the autistic spectrum in a bad domestic relationship who lives in a community in which he might as well be a circus freak -- but has no viable means for more than a temporary respite.
Evading the quarantine may be shameful, but some of us might use it for constructive purposes -- seeking new employment if we dislike a job from which we got laid off, reading, listening to great music, or maybe creating something. The paint brush and canvas... or writing... await me. Heck, I am even thinking of doing a paint job on my laptop to make it less banal (I hope that what I write using it isn't so banal). Some of us might take the promised grant of $1000 and upgrade some skills online. Don't knock home improvements such as adding a new coat of paint or replacing the wallpaper.
When this quarantine is over I can think of many places that I want to go. Personal isolation is miserable -- bad enough for someone on the autistic spectrum in a bad domestic relationship who lives in a community in which he might as well be a circus freak -- but has no viable means for more than a temporary respite.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.