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The lockdown could be the darkest time in many people's life. They don't have stuff to do, food to eat or place to go. The lockdown causes many mental diseases.

Lydia

Jack

i was sick for a while

Ahmad

Recently I had Covid 19 and was out of school sick. Having Covid was a horrible experience, but it was also eye opening and made me realize how bad Covid was during its peak. I never took Covid as seriously as I should have in the past, but now I realize how hard it must’ve been for patients and their families 2 years ago. Luckily, I wasn’t as sick as I could’ve been and didn’t get Covid during its peak while millions of others also had it, but I realize lot of people weren’t as lucky as me and that I should be thankful for my recovery.

Liuxin

The plan of traveling and going back to my hometown get distracted by Covid, especially if I want to go back to China, the Covid policy there is very strict.

Sid

Covid has definitely influenced my life and many others because it was tough when we were all stuck at home. Many people also lost loved ones. I couldn’t participate in some of the extracurricular activities which I wanted to and social interaction was also limited during the lockdown. Last year, I also tested positive for Covid and I got pretty sick from it. I was required to quarantine myself for a week which was an unpleasant experience. I think the world has made progress in dealing with Covid, as many people have taken the vaccine and cases are still down for the time being. Hopefully the worst of the pandemic is now behind us, and we can learn from our mistakes on how we dealt with this pandemic.

Nick chodl

When I went through quarantine I really had a touch time because it’s like I coudnt see anybody I was locked in my house I didn’t go outside for atleast 2 weeks so I just slept trying to make the time go faster and that was the worst feeling in my life

Nick

I was in China and COVID is a daily topic to me. It influenced me a lot on everyday life

Pauline

A.L.

As someone who lives with a family member who is immunocompromised, the circumstances I live under are very different than many of my peers. I am a young person who is vaccinated and who is not particularly vulnerable to Covid’s health implications. However, due to my family members’ immune system deficiency, I’ve had to be extremely cautious about getting Covid. Although my area has lifted mask mandates and bans on large events, I continue to mask indoors and avoid large group gatherings. Personally, this also leads to an undertone of alienation when needing to turn down every inclination. I hope that everyone can be more conscious of those who are immunocompromised and make an effort to continuing performing simple measures, like wearing a mask, because Covid isn’t gone, and people’s lives are still at stake.

Yuxing

My first feeling at the start of the outbreak was that the it would pass quickly, but in the end it still caused such a big loss, which was still quite shocking. The good thing was that the mortality rate of the new coronavirus is not very high and no one is overly panicked around me. Since the start of the outbreak, we all consciously quarantined ourselves at home, and there was a tacit agreement among friends that we would not party and gather together to avoid close contact with each other. After the school closed, classes were changed to online classes, either live lectures or video recordings. Personally, the way the classes were taught did not have much impact on my learning, perhaps because the self-learning component was already a large part of my learning habit. During the remote classes, learning life was basically normal, with the difference being that it took place at home. It is challenging for some of my friends to learn through online classes, and it takes some perseverance to keep up with learning without teachers' supervision. However, I believed that only one semester of online classes should not have much impact on future education and employment.

Weiyan

That night of New Year's Eve in 2020, when I got stuck in Xingjiang at start of the pandemic outbreak, I felt very divided and painful. I was depressed inwardly; there was really a sense of unreality, as if everything was but a dream. Residents in Wuhan were suffering, and yet I was watching the Spring Festival Gala Show and laugh. When I went on my phone, every aspect of the mainstream media is full of pessimism, with so many Wuhan residents calling for help on Weibo posts. I hoped this was a dream after all, and it would be all good when I woke up the next day. I felt like this was not something that should be happening in this era.

Eric Chen

Words: Isolated, Trapped, Lonely Sentence/Paragraph: Simply put, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down my adolescence––at least, a large part of it. I remember when the first COVID lockdowns occurred in my 9th grade year. At first, it was fun and exciting to get so much time away from school. However, it soon became apparent that this was not going to be fun. The governmental regulations on COVID meant I could not go the places I used to, do the activities I wanted to with friends and with others, attend parties, visit the mall, etc. I was stuck at home, and the only method I had of connecting with the outside world was my computer. It was horrible. Even today, after many of the governmental regulations have already relaxed, COVID is still moving a ton of events (summer camps, research conferences) online, thereby ruining several great opportunities to socialize and connect.

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