“Leaving your partner and being in a shelter, it’s almost as if you’re on the run. I honestly feel safer because of the quarantine, and I’d bet that anybody else who came in for shelter during the quarantine feels the same way”
Photo: Nicholas Nelson/EyeEm/Getty Images Crystal is 27 years old and one of the many people globally for whom staying at home during the pandemic didn’t automatically mean safety. She considers herself lucky, though, that she escaped her abusive partner and the father of her three children just a few weeks before the coronavirus shutdowns, and has been living in shelters ever since.
There were about 30 families living in the shelter. Three weeks in, we got an announcement that three families needed to be quarantined — and to please keep your hands washed because the sick families came in contact with other people. I was scared to even get in the elevator or to breathe the air in the hallway. Security would leave anything the sick family needed by their door. But still, it was scary.
Still, I worry about the safety of going back to work. I don’t want to expose myself, I don’t want to bring the virus home.
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