How to prepare yourself to come out of self-isolation mode.

The global coronavirus pandemic is rapidly changing economies and behavioral and social practices. Even before it ends, we feel the impact the coronavirus has had on the world. This impact will continue after the danger of infection has receded and will continue to change our lives. How can we prepare ourselves for this new social and psychological reality in the least painful way possible?
The current situation in Kazakhstan, and in the world, with the pandemic, the coronavirus and the isolation that accompanies it, certainly has its negative aspects. No one is arguing about that, but in the case of such a crisis, there are moments of, shall we say, clarification of some kind.
It seems to me that even at some domestic level, people who are now on the Internet (and now almost everyone is on it due to isolation), we see a certain stratification of society, at least in the form in which it is represented on the network.
We see two conditional types: those people who are in a certain misery, who are depressed, who do not know what to do, what to occupy themselves with, and those people who, under these conditions, discover a wonderful resource for themselves.
That is, this natural phenomenon affects people in different ways, depending on what type of personality they have. And in this sense, the division of our society into those who, apparently, are totally determined by external factors and phenomena, including not only state control (in general, this is a rather tenth thing), but also some kind of complete helplessness in terms of self-determination is very vivid. And it is precisely these people, it seems to me, who complain endlessly about having nothing to do.

It is for these people that the net is now filled with alternative forms of leisure, because these people are not used to living without leisure activities shaped for them by someone from the outside. And this helplessness is a good indicator of how the state has historically gained control over the population. Such a helpless population, which cannot even occupy itself in its free time, will of course be unable to do anything in terms of self-organization, nor will it be able to take control of the situation.
At the same time, for those who historically aspire to this self-organization, trying to build it, the period of isolation has become or, at any rate, becomes a good reason to either strengthen the existing horizontal ties or to establish new ones. That is, all of us together are now on the same plate. And the Internet, in particular, makes us accessible to one another. And those, perhaps, superficial contradictions and conflicts that existed in the real world, by virtue of the fact that we were mobile, in this kind of almost blockade, a semi-military situation, are often removed, and people begin to recognize who is ours and who is a stranger, not in terms of surface ideological conflicts, but in terms of a readiness to unite and self-determine in those conditions when the outside world puts us in such difficult conditions. 
It seems to me that if these processes continue, if we stay in such an isolated state for another month or so, all the healthy, politically active forces of our society will more and more begin to unite in order to emerge from this quarantine already in a completely different status, such a united front, which for itself first of all has demonstrated the ability to really unite.

About the Internet and social mobility
I do not think that there is any super-task for our society to increase this social mobility.
It seems to me that the main task in the broad sense is to give each of us the opportunity to crystallize our place in this world and our possibilities, to understand the reality in which we now exist.
That is, we are now taught to obey the buttons on the screen, and to forget that these buttons are created by third parties. This is especially characteristic of the generation that did not catch the world without the Internet. For whom the Internet is not an extension of reality, not a way of intensifying some traditional activities and the same communication, but it is that very reality. Of course, the great danger in isolation is total immersion in the Internet. Of course there is no problem with the Internet itself, it is a wonderful tool, but this feeling that my whole life is determined by what programs, shows, and podcasts are out there right now, and if that is not there, then I have nothing to do, I do not know what to do with myself - this, of course, is the scary thing.
It has to be overcome by using the Internet to establish personal contacts, to use this time to make acquaintances, to establish some political, social, economic alliances that would go beyond this virtuality, for which this virtuality would only be some springboard, for changes in our real life, which still exists. We are still people of flesh and blood, not just numbers that we have historically sought to be turned into.

About Leisure Time.
Here lies a very significant watershed. Let's look at what happens to the average person under these conditions. What do we see? We see people who, under quarantine conditions, are so unsuited to coexist with themselves, and their idea of free time is so associated with leisure, so in their minds their entire lives are divided into two parts - work, which is making money, and some leisure time with varying degrees of digital involvement.
These people are busy panicking, roasting kebabs on balconies or arranging some discos on balconies, because this is the only thing that comes to their mind when they have free time, which they did not count on. Therefore, under these conditions, people who are somewhat more prepared for human life and, more importantly, for activity, have every chance to realize that it is on them that our common future depends. That this mass of people who spend their free time at shashlik parties and discos has never influenced anything and will never influence anything and therefore the more intensively conscious citizens will involve themselves and similar conscious people in political processes the sooner we will have some changes.
This quarantine kind of gives sharp shades, if you like, it begins to highlight everything in such a black and white color
It seems to me that this is very important, because it strengthens the movement of a person in the direction to which he is inclined. Because those who are inclined to kebabs and discos will move there even more, and those who are inclined to see themselves as people who are responsible for the future, I think they will survive this quarantine with benefit for themselves and for our country.

About Reevaluating Yourself
However, for some people it is an opportunity to re-evaluate themselves, to change their behavioral strategy. Because in fact, I think we have a very poor idea of how our population is divided, that is, what our social structure is like. I think this point is also very important, because we do not know our own people, we do not know who it consists of.
This is a good reason to try to understand who we are, who our neighbors are, who our neighbors from other regions are
It's a time to take a calm, measured look at our reality, and maybe that calm has been the impetus for someone to change on their own, to see the alternatives in all this domesticity that is changing our lives and the lives of those around them.
Another important point may be the realization on the part of the population, on the part of the people that in such a situation caused by natural phenomena, by the virus, the same state and the institutions that are supposed to protect us from above are quite helpless. What actually limits the spread of the virus? It is our isolation, and the extent to which we limit the spread depends on the extent to which we have self-isolated. The term "self-isolation" itself means that we can isolate ourselves, that is, the state does not help us at all to stop the flow of the virus. These are our own actions. The state is watching with us to see what happens.
This raises the question of personal responsibility, which cannot be replaced by some public act that will suddenly cure us all. No one will suddenly cure us.
Secondly, people - most likely many people (at least, I hope so, anyway) - will realize that in such a situation, when there is a virus against which there is no vaccine, the first thing that comes to mind is personal immune status, which depends not on what kind of state we have and how much it pays for some benefits, but on what I do every day, how I treat myself, my body, my physical development. And no state, no matter what kind of health care system it has, will help us in this sense.
People have to understand that everything depends solely on them, and, I hope, when they come out of quarantine, this awareness will remain in their heads and will not disappear with the isolation measures. So people, I hope, have bought dumbbells, weights, vitamins, and it seems like all this stuff is quite mundane, but they emphasize that the most important things are done on an individual level, independently, as their own decision, as their own willingness to take their lives into their own hands and maybe help their neighbor. Because the state can only take us to the hospital, but no more than that.
On civic awareness
Quarantine is not only a personal matter, it is a collective matter. Not having to do with the practices of power that forbid someone or something, but realizing that my personal self-restraint matters to those around me, to the society in which I live.
My personal virtue is the key to the survival and normalcy of my civic community
And this is not just a matter of the virus--the virus here is just a very clear example, or rather a good or not so good way to think about it. But the question, of course, is much broader than that. The question is whether our people will be able to realize that every action of every single person has social consequences. And that not only in a situation of a virus must we have what in the West is called concern for others - that is, concern for others - but also in everyday life, in a normal situation, my behavior must be a model for those around me, not just concern for whether or not everything in my family is fine, and not care about those around me. 
Naturally, we encounter this behavior every day, and we need to understand that this begins with a certain civic responsibility, that some questions of political self-determination require that we look at our neighbors, at our neighbors as citizens like ourselves, and require from ourselves and from others this awareness that we live in one civic community, we must worry about others no less than about ourselves, because this is the guarantee of our collective well-being.

About Hope
There are different lessons to be learned from any situation, if anyone wants to learn anything at all, and it can be interpreted in different ways.
I don't feel any kind of panic at all, and I try to stimulate in those with whom I maintain relationships this sense of isolation as a reason to change for the better, rather than conspiracy, apocalyptic expectations of the end.
The important thing for us now is to concentrate not on questions of what soap opera we should watch, but on questions of how we should prepare ourselves - as people, as citizens, as fellow citizens - for the future. The responsibility for our survival, after all, lies with you and me.