At the beginning of the lockdown I compiled a bibliography directly or indirectly related to the history of pandemics, their filmography and their literary version. From antiquity and the Middle Ages with the plague, which relapsed perpetually, and then with the reappearance of leprosy to the spread of cholera in 19^ο century after Tabora and for a century until the emergence of the devastating tuberculosis and influenza that started in Spain, humanity lives at the pace of the epidemiological disease. In literature the beginning is made with the Homer, Sophocles and Thucydides, then the Vocacchio, but with younger writers such as Alessandro Manzoni and Jens-Peter Jacobsen for Milan, later Gabriel García Márquez, but also Thomas Mann for the cholera in the 20th century.^ο century. But outside the library, what did we actually learn?;

Social isolation and self-limitation

We learned how it is possible to live only inside the house. Until the pandemic, I thought of home as a place to have time to rest, sleep and live with your family. But life is even more intense outside the home. Living more outside the home means a professional life on the rise, socializing with peers and companionship on all levels. After all, I always read more in the library than at home, I was always with people I knew from school, I went to parties as early as kindergarten, and on summer vacation I almost always found myself with my first classmates and friends at summer resorts.

The transition to «Stay at Home» was made with difficulty. Despite the square footage each of us may have, four walls are by no means a substitute for social life. In education we very often see people with learning difficulties and/or attention deficit disorder, when psychologists give lack of friends as a symptom, I personally perceive lack of sociability as a cause of distraction in many hyperactive people. And that's why the initial lesson was social (self-)containment or rather isolation that came to stay in everyone's lives.

Antiseptics are no longer for cleaning our hands from the fish tank just to get rid of the smells or residue from mussels and shrimp (as I used to do until recently), but to be at a reduced risk of death. The difference being that those of us who have learned to eat out a lot and entertain in mass dining venues will probably need to change our mode of social adaptability, or simply learn another modus vivendi more solitary or at least more cautious in our sanitary interaction with others.

Gymnastics at home

Because of the area I did my first gym membership since my math years, when everyone else was doing some sport and the rest were doing TV analysis of the whole thing. As the only girl in an adult space, the owners watched over me so that I could learn to play sports, meaning I was ahead of the curve in what I later learned was called personal training. At the same time, my presence there from the instrument room to the group program room helped me to interact with people older and more serious about the subject matter. Fitness was both socializing, but mostly an afternoon outing.

I continued to register until March 2020, when the first lockdown meant that I stopped doing yoga. I guess we all found ourselves in the same fate. Regardless of how many months we prepaid, the bottom line is that our relationship with the sport changed, we lost touch and food was relegated to a category. And so the next lesson was the belated purchase of gym equipment for home workouts.

Aside from the increased budget required for a small gym and making the right space, emptying rooms and changing habits, the world of the home is not the most suitable for sports. You don't walk to and from, you don't socialize with like-minded people and fellow citizens, so the relationship with the space and type of fitness changes. When the civic rhetoric from the official state and related bodies is sport, then the coronal has changed our good habits forever.

Mutual distances in entertainment as well

I remember going to the cinema for the first time in the late 1980s to see a Greek period comedy, I think with Sotiris Moustakas in an anthropological context (with tribes and man-eaters in Africa) - later I learned that this is called fieldwork in ethnography. I went busking in Athens at the age of three and even then I saw Omonia for the first time with all the dirt from drugs and permanent visitors to the underground railway. I don't know when I will go back to the capital or when I will travel in general, but I do know that my next trip will not involve public transport, nor will it involve going to the cinema or nightclubs.

Living in the countryside, where the population is also dense and the cities are no longer sparsely populated, no one ensures you are clean from transmission and contamination. Viruses and in particular the coronavirus is pervasive, as well as the rhythms of life and entertainment do not allow us distances, rather than a change in the way of communication to one-on-one in-house options. And that's why the third lesson is distances in general.

Reading became a habit again, with rates unusual for Greeks of domestic coffee production in any kind of condition, of course as a method of conscious health. Hybrid platforms have already replaced the cinema room pre-coronavirus, it's just that the virus has multiplied our subscription to them. The night is no longer magical until the wee hours of the morning, when the financial crisis minimized concerts and performances to one or two nights a week. After the pandemic, nightly entertainment seems utopian now, when a rapid test does not guarantee health and a vaccine does not guarantee immunity. We'll go out maybe, but nothing will resemble the lightness of ignorance we had in other times.

Computer, the new hand of God

We got a computer when we as students had to write our papers and prepare our first presentations for a larger audience. That's where we watched our first DVDs and that's where we first went online. News, international news and countless websites became our new access to information. E-mails replaced letterheads and the post office is now for bills and mailboxes almost exclusively for store brochures. Personally, I can't remember when I wrote my last letter.

With the pandemic, the computer was upgraded, since then it became our right hand man. We turn it on in the morning with coffee and turn it off late at night, even surfing in bed (in the first lockdown I burned a laptop, probably from overheating). It's not just the news and correspondence about personal and business matters, but the new way of living. We study, study, buy basic items that will come with courier and all this electronically because the online clicking is healthier. And that's why the computer is our divine vehicle.

As long as banks give us this option and «as long as there is money» for plastic purchases, SARS-CoV-2 can boost electronic orders in the space of consumption. Nevertheless, I don't know if courier companies can really withstand similar overloads, given past experience of quarantine. We will continue to order food, clothes or even shoes via the Internet, but in no case and no machine can override face-to-face communication.

Television, the only real life

When I remember myself as an infant, the two channels of the Greek state television were open late in the afternoon and then gradually from the morning onwards they played children's programmes or silent cinema. Analogically, what I know about the beginnings of silent cinema must have been learned back then, in those short mornings, watching the likes of Pink Panther and Charlie Chaplin - I recently realized that I liked them because they were without subtitles, so as a toddler I understood them just fine. As a schoolgirl I always had a TV receiver in my teenage room as a method of homeopathy, apparently my parents didn't want me to be deprived of anything meaningless or feel incomplete, so I shook off the medium as an adult fairly quickly, at times I didn't even have a TV in the house.

Going back to the period of the first quarantine, depending on which municipality each of us got stuck in, television became the old king of information. Television news became important again and often, depending on the age, the only source of interaction with outside reality. And that is why television has regained its mature glamour compared to the more commercial internet or anecdotal radio.

The power of the image returns again in Greece, without the young people forgetting their mobile phone, the slightly older ones the walk to the garden or the beach next door and the older ones the short afternoon trip to the supermarket. We are at the mercy of the new hybrid survival of TV channels, of course, of access to the internet and from our TV tuner, when other people's Vlogs make us live vicariously through other people's lives. Internet tourism, unfortunately, now also passes through television.

Three years later, we are still afraid to live in freedom, will we go on holiday again? And I wonder, without being too much, is it forbidden to be afraid?;