Updated On: 22 March, 2020 05:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Meenakshi Shedde
I'm avoiding going out during two weeks of self-quarantine, as a precaution, even though I have no symptoms at all.

Illustration/Uday Mohite
Working out of home in the time of the Coronavirus, is not radically different from my lifestyle as a freelance, as I work out of a laptop at home anyway. Except that I'm avoiding going out during two weeks of self-quarantine, as a precaution, even though I have no symptoms at all.
When I first became a freelance journalist, there was some schadenfreude; I enjoyed working from home, especially because mostly everyone else had to commute to work daily. But corona is a great leveller. And, because many others are sick, dying, newly working from home or grounded, I sometimes feel guilty that my free time at home can't feel like a staycation (vacation staying at home), but must be used productively.