Covid-19 Primary Source Project - Shane Piper & Kara Welsh

How has Covid affected you how has cobit affected you almost code affected me it's such a broad question i mean so personally the way government has impacted me covert has affected me tremendously throughout the covet has affected me tremendously especially in high school uh covert affected my senior year mostly because i only had to go to school every other day and then when the days i did go to school i didn't start until 10. code is affecting me uh with wrestling especially last year as a senior i went from 50 matches my junior year and then senior year i had 13 matches so that was a big effect especially coming into college i am also a gymnast and i missed out on my senior season we had to do virtual meets and limit our travel needs which was really sad covert has affected me by delaying my senior season which pushed back pushed it back to the summer where prom and spring break were like really affected i never went to a high school prom because of covid so yeah i kind of killed that i missed out on a lot of opportunities in high school that i was really looking forward to such as prom and homecoming games and stuff like that like i always had to pick between either the sport or enjoy my time with my friends and family i guess it's affected me negatively because i'm not it for a while it didn't let me do a lot of things i wanted to do high school it affected the end of like my junior and senior year and it's affected a lot of families around me as well i mean i had it twice so i had a quarantine twice and that wasn't a whole lot of fun i had to miss out on certain practices and seeing family so i mean that wasn't fun otherwise after that hasn't done much to me i've been covered three times the first two times was when i was still back home and the quarantine process wasn't as strict but the third time i was up here and it was much more strict so i don't know how else to say it affected me but other than it affected me negatively but whatever i mean it is what it is i'm here now Most memorable experience with Covid what is your most memorable experience with kelvin my most memorable experience with kovid i guess when i when we had to wear masks and everybody was just like scared to go near each other and like we were all locked up in each other's house in our own houses and we weren't allowed to go outside sports seasons my junior year which really sucked and then uh same seniors wasn't the same my school and gymnastics gym shutting down my sophomore year of high school and having to sit at home alone for a lot of weeks off that made it pretty nice because i could just sleep all day do homework and then going out with friends probably playing video games with my friends from like 10 p.m to like 4 00 a.m every single day because we had nothing to wake up for because like i never i never had to go to school at all it was like a complete wash so the most free time with cove because like you were you could do whatever at any point in time you know go cliff jumping bridge jumping stuff like that it was a lot of fun by running up my gains in the gym and not only did i run up my gains in the gym i worked on my cardio and you just kind of forget about doing homework sometimes mentally i haven't been in the right places with hybrid classes because i can like in class learning i learned better kinesthetically touching hands-on i would have to say was it really brought my neighborhood closer together by the fact that we had more time to just interact with each other and just hang out but as that is a good one a negative was that my grandmother did get sick and my dad did have to go to the philippines for a couple of months i'm from tennessee so down south total regulations are very different than up here so coming to college is a big change with social distancing and wearing masks and i mean it really messed up uh this you know how i thought about life i guess you could say really with your head but i'm glad it's pretty much over Opinion on Covid vaccine what is your opinion on the coping vaccine i think everyone should get the coma vaccine i'm vaccinated and boosted and i haven't gotten hurt i am vaccinated i'm not boosted i personally personally am vaccinated with the booster i personally am vaccinated and boosted i don't think anyone should be forced to get vaccinated but i do recommend it to keep our community safe and get over this paint today honestly i don't think there's really any need for it i am currently unvaccinated um my opinion on the covered vaccine is everyone's entitled to their own opinion you know i'm trying to like dodge this question you know so personally i'm not vaccinated but i mean i have family that's vaccinated i know people that are vaccinated it's really up to your opinion if you want to get vaccinated you think it's the right thing to do i don't want to get vaccinated so hate me if you want but i think it's a good idea to get the vaccine uh i think the vaccine is a good thing i think that everybody should get it but i don't think that people should be forced to get it but i don't think that it should be forced upon everyone if they don't want to do it the vaccine really shouldn't be pushed on people as hard because people are saying oh yes it does help now but we still don't know the long-term effects i had to get tested three times a week and i was sick of that so i got vaccinated i didn't want to get it but i had to just like how people saying like with other things that are brand new like vaping and like other stuff like we don't know the long-term effects of that so we should stay away from it my belief is we don't know the term effects of the vaccines that we should stay away from it as well um i just think the media gives it a bad a bad rap and that too many people are misinformed and the government's trying to do good for us so some people it's not good for their bodies but like other people can it can help you like be covered in a way so if you want to get it that's great if you think it's beneficial to you get it but if you don't want to get it then you shouldn't really have to and don't get it i mean i have no problem i'm not i don't i won't judge but i personally think don't think there's a reason to get it to be honest with you Opinion on masks do you support masks uh my opinion on the mass mandate i didn't like the mask mandate because it would fog up my glasses and i couldn't see anything so i personally didn't like it i'm kind of neutral on the subject of math you don't hold any opinion on the math mandate i'll wear mine if it's asked of me but i never go out of my way to wear one i don't like them but i will wear one if i have to especially if it's like a very populated area but i will wear my mask in product places such as hospitals and airports especially if that means keeping others safe i think that during the heat of that pandemic it was it would have been a good thing to have a mask mask mandate but as of right now i don't feel like it's necessary masks really not a big fan of them but i do understand why they need to be in place in buildings i get it like outdoors and everything i don't understand why people still are even after covert has gone down significantly i still know people who wear it throughout their their daily life even today so if you want to wear it you want to wear it something masked man they like i feel like like if you don't want to wear it you shouldn't have to like if you want to wear it go ahead but like if i don't want to like i should not have to be forced to wear it i know the masks can be annoying but if they keep the people around me safe then i support them i think that uh masks are a good thing and that they were definitely necessary when the virus was rampant but uh now i mean yeah i don't really see the point i think everybody's over it and i think that people are ready to move on you