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Documenting COVID-19 in Niagara

Collected Item: “In the midst”

I agree:

Yes

Name:

Holly Legere

Date:

April 9 2020

Title:

In the midst

Answer 1 - Work/School:

- It just happened that my job contract ended at the beginning of April. NO ONE is hiring as the unemployment rate is at an all time high. Today it was announced it was at 7.8%.
- grocery stores have line ups to get in the stores. Limiting the amount of people in the stores. Limiting how you walk around the store. Limiting how you pay (no cash allowed and self check out only)
- school is online. My school had to fill out a form and request to the law society to do online schooling
- my coop was suspended for weeks before they allowed us to do online co-ops

Answer 2 - At Home:

I am depressed. I have been diagnosed with depression and anxiety and been on medication for years and handling it well but this has uprooted my routine completely.

Answer 3 - Concerns:

- my husband has Crohn’s disease. He is on immunosuppressants which means he is more susceptible to contracting this virus. I am terrified that he will contract it or that I will bring it home even from bringing groceries home.
- my friend has LAMS disease a lung disease where her lungs collapse. I am so worried that if she were to contract this virus she would die because her lungs couldn’t handle it.

Answer 4 - Infected?:

No

Answer 5 - Media Coverage:

- the media coverage has been over board. It’s makes those with anxiety literally feel like they are getting sick with this virus.

Answer 6 - Leadership:

Absolutely. The PM comes on every day at the same time and speaks to Canada. The Ontario officials come on shortly there after and do the same thing. The response Canada has made shows clearly because we have the supplies. We have the resources. We have the people doing what we need to do to stay alive and it shows it the statistics and in the numbers of who is alive and who had died from this virus versus the United States.

Answer 7 - End?:

- I think this might end maybe by the end of June.
- going back to work will be hard. Opening businesses back up and having people not get sick again
- opening businesses and not have them hike their prices up is my main concern for the economy
- I think everyone has learned that together we are better. We have learned what it feels like to be apart from one another and that we don’t want to do that
- we have learned that grocery stores are very essential to our daily living
- we also learned that maybe we can get by with less? Maybe this means environmentally too and economically. Some of us can continue to stay home and work from home.

Answer 8 - Thoughts:

No

Location:

St. Catharines

Publish Online:

No
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