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Of course seeing the words “COVID strikes America is super scary. I was super frustrated with everything happening already, and then COVID was getting worse. I really wanted this pandemic to end and for a vaccine to come out, which it finally did.

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I am extremely happy, as the Florida Panthers have made it to the playoffs and are playing against the defending Stanley cup champions, the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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Interviewer: Mom

Q: What were your first reactions to hearing about COVID19 when it first became a pandemic last year?
A: What can I do to keep my family safe and how do I still sell insurance.

Q: Did you think people were over-reacting or under-reacting?
A: In the beginning I thought they were over-reacting but then when we learned more about COVID, I thought they were under-reacting.

Q: How is today different from when the pandemic first happened for you, your family, the nation, and the world?
A: I don’t go to see clients anymore in person. I am very good at doing soon meetings and I don’t shake anyone’s hand anymore, I wear a mask, and do not wear lipstick.

Q: Did you have to cancel any major events like a vacation, a Bar Mitzvah, etc. because of the pandemic?
A: Yes, we cancelled our birthday celebration in 2020.

Q: How has your life changed since first going on quarantine last year?
A: More family dinners, more time at home with the kids and more appreciative of our health.

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Interviewer: Grandpa

Q: What were your first reactions to hearing about COVID-19 when it first became a pandemic last year?
A: At first I didn’t believe it and the president covered it up and I had no idea of the magnitude it would turn out to be.

Q: Did you think people were over-reacting or under-reacting?
A: I think people were under-reacting because people thought that they didn’t have to wear masks and didn’t abide to the rules and safety precautions of staying same from COVID.

Q: How is today different from when the pandemic first happened for you, your family, the nation, and the world?
A: Can’t go out on vacations like we used to, up until a few weeks ago we couldn’t go to restaurants, we cannot socialize with our friends, and the traveling as changed dramatically, your grandmother and I took cruises every year, but I cannot anymore.

Q: Did you have to cancel any major events like a vacation, a Bar Mitzvah, etc. because of the pandemic?
A: We don’t know what we are going to do about Ronan’s [my brother] Bar Mitzvah because of the pandemic, I had to change my vacation in December because of it, our birthday last year with your mom in 2020 we were planning on going to Hard Rock but that was cancelled, and for the first time in 40 years, we had to celebrate our birthday on zoom.

Q: How has your life changed since first going on quarantine last year?
A: I can’t go out and see doctors or hospitals to sell insurance because we cannot go into the store, the whole way of life has changed because I cannot go see my friends, and I went to every single Miami Heat games and football games, but I couldn’t go to any of them.

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The article says “How Many..” which implies there was at least more than 2, which is horrid. It is absolutely terrible how people shoot others with weapons for no reason.

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For the little bits of time I was able to see my friends during quarantine, we made epic catches with football outside

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Something that kept me happy during quarantine was hockey

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During quarantine, an essential thing that kept me sane was headphones, because I could block out the noise from my birds in the background during online classes and listen to music.

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During the second semester of school, I’ve been going to the Florida Panthers games, as well as going to my hockey games. Of course COVID has made this much harder. On the brighter side, the Florida Panthers at the time I am making this have secured a playoff spot with 77 points and 1 more game left in the season. Hopefully we will win, which will give us one game of home advantage when we play the Tampa Bay Lightning in the playoffs. In other news, my hockey team currently has a record of 5-3-2. We are tied for second in the league!

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This is a picture of my computer, because I used it for online school for parts of last year and parts of this year

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Hey future me! This is a video for you.

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During COVID-19, my life has changed for the worse. It was like getting off a roller coaster that was one minute long that you waited 30 minutes for in line. I was stuck at home with nothing to do forever besides play some madden and NHL 20/21 on my x box. Besides that, I hated everything that was happening. I couldn’t go to my hockey practices, my hockey games, The Florida Panthers’s hockey games, the Miami Dolphins’s football games. It was so boring because eventually I got bored of doing the same thing everyday for about 2 and 1/2 months. Also a group named BLM, Black Lives Matter, was storming throughout the U.S. It really picked up when an officer sat on a black drug dealer by the name of George Floyd with his knee and killed him. The world was going mad, especially the U.S.

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My Bar Mitzvah has already happened before COVID-19 struck the world. My Bar Mitzvah was September 7th, 2019. My friend Aaron, on the other hand, had his Bar Mitzvah postponed for months, because his birthday is March 11th. Because of COVID, the last vacation I took was over the Christmas of 2019. Me and my family went to Utah and went skiing. We usually go on vacation every Christmas, but we couldn’t because of COVID-19. We stayed in the house more, while we were having some quality family bonding time, we were also going crazy. I cannot wait until this is all over with. The pandemic really helped me realize how annoying my little brother was. I was spending so much time with him in the house it was driving me crazy. Other than that I was somewhat stable. If I could of told myself from last year something, it would be to fly over the China and steal the bat soup that caused all of this and disintegrate it.

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When COVID-19 first came to America, I didn’t believe it. When I realized that this is a big thing, I was thinking that it would be over in about 3 to 4 weeks and everything would be back to normal again. I thought everyone was overreacting when we were forced to go into quarantine. I then realized that this was a big deal. It impacted my life a ton, in a bad way. We weren’t allowed to see our friends, we weren’t allowed to go to sleep away camp, and my hockey practice and games were cancelled for a long time which made me rusty. It made sense to me, but I didn’t want to believe it. I wanted to go outside and have fun and live my life normally, if that’s even a word anymore. My family responded just how I did. In shock of what was happening, because this is history. This was something I never would have expected and I cannot wait until COVID-19 is 100% over with and things could go back to the way they were. . . for the most part. I’m pretty sure when I can speak for everyone when I say that COVID-19 is the worst thing that happened to us, humanity, in a  long time.

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This one is just sad and funny. When you realize you have no money:

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Grandmas be like:
“One snack before your mom comes to pick you up!”
Nobody:
The Snack:

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Throughout the school year, I have been more into sports, at more specifically, the NFL (and I am excited for the draft coming up at 8:30 est. time today 04/29). I feel like I must know every trade, draft pick, win/loss every Sunday football, Monday night football, Thursday night football, or Saturday afternoon football.

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When you are about to go to sleep but your body does that thing where it makes you feel like you fell out of your bed