So the big question is how does this isolation compare to when I wintered over at the South Pole with 46 people, and did not leave Antarctica for 11 months?

Antarctica Winterover: saw 5-20 people a day
Coronavirus Isolation: see 2 people a day

Antarctica Winterover: saw my now husband once every 11 months
Coronavirus Isolation: see my husband every day!

Antarctica Winterover: ate fresh food once or twice a week, limited to lettuce, tomato and cucumbers
Coronavirus Isolation: lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, oranges literally grow on trees!

Antarctica Winterover: never had too cook
Coronavirus Isolation: have to cook a lot

Pluses and minuses here...

Antarctica Winterover: approximately 13 hours of internet connectivity, 2 hours at high enough speed to load a website well, in a moving window
Coronavirus Isolation: continuous high speed internet connectivity

Antarctica Winterover: crappy quality WebEx calls over an Iridium satellite connection or spotty NASA satellite
Coronavirus Isolation: crappy quality WebEx calls over a high speed internet line

Antarctica Winterover: Allowed to shower 2 times a week for 2 minutes, no baths
Coronavirus Isolation: A bath or a shower whenever I want!

Antarctica Winterover: Temperatures between -50F and -100F in the winter. -60F it's warm out! Don't need that second balaclava on my 1km walk
Coronavirus Isolation: It's raining in California. Better not leave the house.

Coronavirus self-care checklist vs. Antarctica Winterover self-care checklist.

Antarctica Winterover: If I get sick I know it's not a cold, but something internal. Probably cancer right????
Coronavirus Isolation: I have a tickle in my throat, could it be the Coronavirus??? Or reading "The Very Hungry Caterpiller" for the 37th time in a row?

Antarctica Winterover: enough food, toilet paper, electricity and water generation capacity to last for a year or more
Coronavirus Isolation: resupply missions weekly.

Antarctica Winterover: no deliveries
Coronavirus Isolation: Amazon Priming things daily out of boredom

Antarctica Winterover: finishing up my application to be a NASA Astronaut Candidate
Coronavirus Isolation: finishing up my application to be a NASA Astronaut Candidate

Antarctica Winterover: My elderly relatives are afraid for me
Coronavirus Isolation: I'm afraid for my elderly relatives

Antarctica Winterover: No expenses. Literally nothing to spend money on.
Coronavirus isolation: food, mortgage, daycare & gym (still paying bill although not using), bills, expensive deliveries, you name it.

Antarctica Winterover: I lived surrounded by ice. No spiders. None. No bugs. No possibility.
Coronavirus Isolation: I live surrounded by mountains. So many spiders. So many. Many bugs. Many possibilities.

Antarctica winterover: I knew things would be back to my old life after approximately 11 months, when I could fly back to civilization.
Coronavirus Isolation: End not in sight. Not sure when I'll fly again.

Antarctica winterover: Daily (indoor) wardrobe of thermals, loose heavyweight sweatpants, and winter crocs
Coronavirus isolation: Daily wardrobe of nursing shirt, joggers, and mahabis slippers

Antarctica winterover: woken up at any time of night by a page from the automated telescope monitoring system for immediate diagnosis/fixing
Coronavirus isolation: woken up at any time of the night by cry from the infant for immediate diagnosis/fixing

Antarctica winterover: sauna access from my abode!
Cornoavirus isolation: hottub access from my abode!