8 Fun Activities to Do While Quarantined due to COVID-19, a Poem by Marc Cid

Sing along to that wonderful cover of “Imagine”
  by John Lennon, performed by an ensemble
  of all your favorite celebrities.
 
 

Read a short story, like
  The Masque of The Red Death
  by Edgar Allen Poe.
 
 

Watch a movie,
  like Parasite by Bong Joon-ho,
  or Jaws by Steven Spielberg.
 
 

Play board games,
  like Risk,
  or Monopoly.
 
 

Play video games,
  like Animal Crossing: New Horizons,
  or DOOM Eternal, or
  The Oregon Trail.
 
 

Watch something factual, like a documentary
  about the Roman Empire
  under the rule of Emperor Nero.
 
  Or something more current,
  such as journalistic fact-checking
  about all the things Trump said
  about his administration’s handling
  of the coronavirus pandemic,
 
  which he afterwards said he didn’t say,
  all while calling it and defending his choice
  in calling it the ‘Chinese virus.’
 
 

Read an article or book for intellectual enrichment.
 
  Like some research on ‘stochastic terrorism,’ defined as
  ‘the public demonization of a person or group
  resulting in the incitement of a violent act,
  which is statistically probable but whose specifics
  cannot be predicted,’
  in conjunction with federal warnings
  concerning the rise of racially-motivated hate crimes
  against people of Asian descent.
 
  Or study the subject of ‘precarity’ as defined
  by the field of cultural anthropology, that definition being,
  “the politically induced condition
  in which certain populations suffer
  from failing social and economic networks
  becoming differentially exposed
  to injury, violence, and death.”
 
 

Learn a new skill. Teach yourself how to create
  something simple, practical, and in high demand.
 
  Like protective breathing masks
  for when you go outside.
 
  Or poetry, because the only raw materials you need
  are some way of writing the words down,
  as well as all the thoughts and feelings
  you’re having while living under quarantine.
 
  Or guillotines, for when band-aids
  just aren’t cutting it for you anymore.