COVID experiences by

California, USA

Beyond_COVID — 2021-07-01 08:23:52 UTC

I spent my quarantine in California. It felt same to stay home but it wasn’t forbidden to go out, so I went for walks in nature with my parents. Swim wise, my team only stopped training for I few weeks. In that time, we zoomed every day and did some drylands together. School wise, we were online for the last month, hence we didn't do the finals. I found online school very helpful. I was able to record lessons and if I had missed something, I would listen to them again and take notes. I had a lot of time to work on myself and do things that I wouldn't have been able to do in my normal daily life. I became passionate about nutrition, and having more time to cook, I spent a lot of my hours preparing healthy meals for my family. I tried to keep in contact with my friends in order to not feel lonely. Overall I didn’t suffer from that period of time at all. It was good for me to take a break from my busy life and have some time to focus on myself.

中国河北省

yiningwang22 — 2021-07-01 08:40:11 UTC

I am a Chinese high school student who just finished the college entrance examination. In the past year, we used to take online classes most of the time. Many online meeting software came into being. At present, the epidemic situation in most provinces and cities in China is very controlled. Well, we have basically returned to normal life. However, at the beginning of the epidemic, the government requested a large-scale closure of the city, many businesses closed down as a result, and food delivery services became more routine. I am very grateful for the challenges this epidemic has brought us. I need to work harder to review in my studies to maintain the level of offline classes.

Beijing, 北京市中国

2021-07-01 09:42:22 UTC

What is my Covid experience? Well, for the past year, I stayed at home in Beijing while attending classes asynchronously in an American high school. For multiple reasons, I cannot return to America. For months, life for me was the classes in my laptop and the invariable scene outside of my bedroom window. Looking back, maybe I should've used this opportunity to explore Beijing, but I was stuck in academic pressure. Summer has been chaotic to me so far. I have no regular sleeping schedule and was also busy with multiple academic and extracurriculum activities. Sometimes I went to sleep at 7 am and woke up at 2 pm.

However, I am confident in my life so far. I am holding on to the opportunities I have and beating on, boats against the current. Though I feel lost sometimes, but that kind of feeling is a part of your life. Embrace the bright side and the dark side of your soul. 尽人事，听天命。

China

s17674 — 2021-07-01 11:10:24 UTC

At the very beginning of the pandemic, that is the first discovered major outbreak in Wuhan, China in January 2020, I had witnessed a huge wave of panic roll through my community. The virus was literally found days ago, its transmission methods and origins were all unknown, and so there was anxiety to the extent that rumors of apocalyptic scenarios (which we know now are far from being real) being widespread. Eventually the fear recessed as the whole situation seemed a bit in control and online classes started to bring our life back to what looked more normal.

Jeddah

2021-07-01 16:18:44 UTC

Flekkefjord, Norway

2021-07-01 16:18:48 UTC

Flekkefjord, Norway

2021-07-01 16:19:20 UTC

Flekkefjord, Norway

2021-07-01 16:19:26 UTC

Flekke, Norway

2021-07-01 16:19:33 UTC

UWCRCN, pretty isolated and after quarantine period everything was pretty ‘normal’ with limitations to go off campus

Vega Baja

2021-07-01 16:19:50 UTC

People here wore masks all the time that’s why we were permitted to have some sort of liberty. We were only asked to stay inside at all times at the start of the pandemic, but after a month we only had a curfew and some places were open. We could go to the beach and open places to exercise, but after some time the beaches opened for recreational purposes too. In my personal experience COVID didn’t impact me in a big way I always went out to the beach to surf and do paddle board which was permitted so I stayed active most of the time. I also got vaccinated pretty early on because I kind of worked in a pharmacy/medical office.

Ashe County, NC, USA

2021-07-01 16:20:07 UTC

My school shut down in March 2020 and still has not fully opened up. My community is slowing opening back up but Covid had permanently changed many of my relationships.

Belgrade

2021-07-01 16:20:45 UTC

I went through COVID in November last year, just as the 2nd wave had started. My family and I have been very careful, and have no idea how we got it. Luckily, no one in my family was a victim of the disease, but our health is overall worse than before having COVID; my dad and I still have brain fog and poor concentration, while my mom got Hashimoto's disease. One good thing came out if it, though. I am now regularly donating my antibody-filled blood plasma that is used in the treatment of critical patients. At least somehow I am able to help some people going through the thing that hurt many many others!

New York, NY, USA

2021-07-01 16:42:14 UTC

I spent the last 1.5 years of school entirely over zoom, and there were times when online school felt far more difficult than in-person classes. It was difficult to maintain relationships with friends, as I don't love social media and tend to not spend much time on my phone. I would say a bright spot of the pandemic was getting to spend so much time with my family—I feel very to grateful to have had this time with them.

Nigeria

2021-07-01 16:55:59 UTC

There were a lot of food shortages. The government was sharing palliatives which didn't get to the poor. Schools were on lock down. Families were bonding!

New Castle County, DE, USA

2021-07-01 17:19:04 UTC

Hi, my name is Mya. I attend Newark Charter School. I spent the middle through end of my sophomore year in quarantine and spent all of junior year online. 7 weeks before the last day of school students were allowed to opt into hybrid learning but I didn't. However, I did choose to take my AP exams in person at the school and I feel like it helped my testing experience a lot.

Central Region, Uganda

2021-07-02 10:20:02 UTC

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2021-07-02 11:42:24 UTC

There was no lockdown here, as we were told that Covid is nothing compared to the other diseases that have previously hit the country, and that praying will make it go away. However, this approach didn't work for long, as many people died and private institutions started going virtual. From August 2020 though, everything has been going on normally here, without any social distancing/masks. Only a minority of us actually take precautions, otherwise it's the "There's no COVID" mentality over here.

Reykjavík

2021-07-04 07:34:38 UTC

Reykjavík

2021-07-04 07:34:56 UTC

Reykjavík, Iceland

2021-07-04 07:35:12 UTC

Both dots are me haha love from Iceland

Stockholm

2021-07-04 12:07:08 UTC