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Question 1: What are your current feelings about the COVID-19 pandemic?
I'm getting weary but know I cannot relent. There is a false illusion of safety spurred by all the reopenings, my friends say things like "I'm just over it." I want to be over it, desperately, but one cannot simply choose to be "over" a global pandemic.
I'm getting weary but know I cannot relent. There is a false illusion of safety spurred by all the reopenings, my friends say things like "I'm just over it." I want to be over it, desperately, but one cannot simply choose to be "over" a global pandemic.
Question 2: Have your opinions about the virus changed over the past twelve weeks? How?
Initially, I was pleased with the response in terms of slowing things down and shutting them down. However, as we move into reopening despite having no way of limiting the spread of COVID-19, I find myself more and more frustrated over the prioritization of the economy over human life and safety.
Initially, I was pleased with the response in terms of slowing things down and shutting them down. However, as we move into reopening despite having no way of limiting the spread of COVID-19, I find myself more and more frustrated over the prioritization of the economy over human life and safety.
Question 3: As stores and public places have started to open up, does this make you relieved or more fearful? Why?
I worry for our collective and individual mental health when the inevitable Lockdown 2.0 appears.
I worry for our collective and individual mental health when the inevitable Lockdown 2.0 appears.
Question 5: If an effective vaccine is developed within the next year and becomes widely available, would you get the vaccine? Why or why not?
Yes, absolutely.
Yes, absolutely.
Question 7: How much longer are you ready to live with regulations and limitations? When should things get back to "normal"?
There will be no return to "normal," and there are many aspects of "normal" that we should do away with.
There will be no return to "normal," and there are many aspects of "normal" that we should do away with.
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Robyn
Date
June 12, 2020
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This item was submitted on June 12, 2020 by Robyn robyn.burns@uwaterloo.ca using the form “Questions and Answers 2” on the site “Documenting COVID-19 in Niagara”: https://exhibits.library.brocku.ca/s/COVID-Niagara
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