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Many people’s routines were already indistinguishable from quarantine. These lifestyles were adopted out of convenience, economy, or ways to make do or compensate for various lackings. If before they defaulted to staying inside, now they have “no choice”.

In both scenarios they have a choice, but during the first the illusion is that this was the better choice, possibly a good enough decision (though pressures to adopt that lifestyle might have been greater than any volition put behind a decision making process which criteria was already moulded by such pressures), and during the quarantine scenario the framing is that of an impositions, giving an illusion of no choice or helplessness. Both are adaptations to confluences of pressures from modern life, civilization etc. Adaptations are not always innovations, nor proactive, nor conscious and deliberate creative choices.