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Quarantine - new normal

I realized for a while now, that word “quarantine” for us became just a casual word. It’s all over the social media, TV, newspaper, products etc. It gained so much more purpose over these 2 years. It became selling point in many products (ex. masks), it is used in many campaigns and now even in movies. It’s now harder to not see any “quarantine related thing” than ever before. 

It is becoming more apparent that the old version of our world isn’t coming back. Most people just measure time before and after COVID. When before march 2020 was the last time, we used the word- quarantine? Probably in movies or textbooks. Personally, I didn’t even know how to spell quarantine correctly until COVID hit. The word earned so much more meaning, from the word that described something surreal and distant to something really close to people all over the world.


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  1. englishdiary28 September 2021 at 10:10

    Yea, it used to be a concept out of the Albert Camus' book but not any more.

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