Feeling trapped: Families deal with being quarantined By Dayna Lashley Toward the end of March, the whole country went into a lockdown that no one expected. Friday nights with friends, dinners with family and trips to the mall were for granted. Nobody thought much of it and thought that life would always be like that. As it turns out, that was not the case. People quarantined into their homes for over a month. “I don’t like being quarantined. I miss my freedom,” said Jonathon Skelley.