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Has the pandemic affected your political views in any way? If so, how?
I’m not sure the pandemic has changed my political views as much as the president’s handling of it, and the way with which information and misinformation and disinformation is perpetuated. It’s like people are walking on the beach and picking up shells like this and reading some oracle of truth to get their information. I understand people are afraid, and in many cases they should be. I understand the country was founded on certain principles like “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. However, that does not mean you get to do whatever you want. There is an implied caveat here...”life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness BUT NOT at the expense of others,” I understand it’s nearly impossible to change someone’s beliefs, so I’ve tried to look for the shred of truth. For example, if you trace back the conspiracy theory that certain leaders are cannibals you can trace back and find that It stems from their partaking of a communion service (which is purported to be the blood and body of Christ) In Africa at the request of a community leader, See cannibals! How silly and desperate to perpetuate this to create this huge divide that’s pitting us against each other. In the middle of a pandemic! I don’t understand wanting to hate that much? It scares me to think what the next few months might become. I want to believe my fellow Americans are smart enough to know we need to heal and find ways to work together if we have any hope for future generations. Or what happens when the next virus comes? Or the one after that? Or the one after that?
October 21, 2020
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Think about the people closest to you. Tell us about how the coronavirus has affected them, and their life.
My sister was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer 3 months in to the pandemic. My father-in-law died and mother-in-law quickly followed by dying of Covid 3 months later. No funerals. These have been very hard on my two kids (23 and 27). The 27-year old is in med-school and spent 6 months living with me last year and doing her rotations on-line. The other was a barrista in Brooklyn at some hipster cafe where the owner didn’t put up plexiglass shields because “he has an aesthetic Mom”. “How about a coffin? Ya think he’ll like that aesthetic?” She just had to deal with it because she needed to live and that’s what was available. Both of them have had increasing anxiety and depression, and, yet continue marching through their lives like so many other young people whose plans were derailed.
May 4, 2021