I blame quarantine for many things: my dance studio closing, limits in grocery stores, etcetera etcetera. I want to blame quarantine for making me think I can’t express myself in dance anymore and that I am confined to a five by three space to do so. We all want to blame quarantine. Hell I want to blame quarantine on making me miss bashing school IN school. However shouldn’t we blame it on quarantine. The truth is we should blame it on ourselves. If we continue to go out and not stay inside people’s lives are in danger. We need to stay inside and adhere to the rules because so far we aren’t. We are at about 50% of people listening which means our world may never recover. If we get that number to 80%, corona might as well be gone in three weeks. But no one is listening to the pleas from people’s families of those who have died. No one seems to care that people are in fact dying. If no one seems to care people are dying how are we supposed to keep on living anyways. Seems kind of pointless if you ask me. People not caring about one another is why corona isn’t ending. In fact I retract my statement earlier, blame is too harsh a word. We need to help one another and make people listen. We as a community need to stop blaming quarantine at this point and make a difference.
–Elizabeth Pinheiro, Mt. Hope High School, junior
