Isolation

Entry 1

Sienna's Diary
Day 16

Dear Diary,

Today has been difficult.

My work anxiety has doubled and I'm struggling to keep up with things. The work at home set up is not really helping but a girl's gotta do what she gotta do. This is the only way I get food on my table during this pandemic. I can't even go home to my parent's right now because they are vulnerable and I don't want to expose them.

It's only been sixteen days since the lockdown was announced and I was glad still that my company did not stop operating. Although assisting customers thru calls and ensuring that reports have been submitted on a timely manner, it is still hard.

When the pandemic surfaced, I was on a five-day vacation leave. I was at the beach and signals were barely there. A friend from work called me and asked how's the situation to where I was at and I told her that it was okay. Less tourist but still fun.

Then she called me the next day, telling me that the city mayor would close the borders to all incoming and outgoing citizens on 20th March at exactly 12 midnight, which was also the exact day I would be going home.

So two days in the beach bumming and I packed my bags and immediately went home. Once back at my apartment, I hurried to the grocery and packed up at least a month worth of supplies. I also bought some for my family and drove to them to drop those off.

When 20th March came, it was like a zombie apocalypse and me being the paranoid sometimes, I made sure that my door was double locked and things needed to fight were just reachable to me. It was crazy.

A week after the lockdown was announced and I was slowly coping with it. I set up my work station, talked to my family for an hour every day, video called my friends every night... things were fine.

But then sixteen days in and it's already making me crazy. According to the news, the lockdown might take at least two months due to unavailability of vaccine.

Two months of just me. How can I survive alone?