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Southern Adirondack Library System
Covid-History
Age
46
Location
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Saratoga Springs, New York
When did the impact of COVID-19 first occur to you? How did your reaction to COVID-19 change between then and the first case in your town?
Question 1
Late January 2020. I initially hoped it was being overblown in the press because I didn't want my April 2020 trip to Paris to be canceled. By the time the threat became real, I just wanted to be safe.
How is your life different now than it was before the pandemic?
Question 2
Much more stressful and full of anxiety. Juggling work and child rearing is nearly impossible.
How are you feeling? What are you doing to relieve stress?
Question 3
Anxious, grateful for the respite of the summer, resigned to a recurrence in the fall. Exercise, writing, wine!
What have you noticed has changed in your community since the outbreak? What has surprised you?
Question 4
Polarization of face mask wearers vs non face mask wearers. I'm surprised at the number of people who don't wear them. The scientific evidence is there for all to see. Also-it's incredibly selfish not to wear one.
Are you a business owner who has had to close? If you are still open, how have you had to adjust how your business operates?
Question 5
n/a
Are you an essential employee? What do you do? What precautions are being taken at your workplace? What precautions are implementing at home?
Question 6
n/a
Are you an employee who has been laid off or furloughed? Were you able to get unemployment? Were you able to retain your health insurance?
Question 7
n/a
Are you working from home? What adjustments or challenges are you experiencing?
Question 8
Part from home, part in the office. I normally work from home for half of the year. so not many adjustments. Except when my child is here.
Do you have children at home? How’s it going?
Question 9
Yes. Poorly, although much better since school ended.
How are you using social media, the Internet, or digital platforms during the pandemic?
Question 11
I go to news sites for info. Try to stay away from social media-related stuff re: virus.
Did you have to postpone any major life events? (e.g. Graduation, wedding, major birthday) What did you do instead?
Question 12
Yes-trip to Paris. Nothing. Stayed home and fought with my daughter about home schooling.
Do you have animals? Did you adopt a pet? How have they impacted your day?
Question 13
n/a
What positive things did you contribute to or notice take place?
Question 14
Reconnection with friends who live at a distance via phone/facetime/etc
Did you or someone you know contract COVID-19? What was it like?
Question 15
Yes. One asymptomatic, one symptomatic. The latter whined like an infant, though.
What do you wish you knew before the pandemic began?
Question 17
That school would end on 3/13/20.
What would you want future generations to know about the 2020 pandemic? How would you recommend they prepare for it?
Question 18
It has affected so many people differently. There is nothing equal about its effect. The rich can go to 2nd or 3rd home and have save space. The rest of us had a hammer laid down on us overnight. Don't elect an ignorant president and don't pretend health care for everyone isn't important.
How do you think this pandemic will change how we behave going forward? What will the “new normal” look like?
Question 19
Who the hell knows? Too soon to tell.
Date
7/2/2020
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11755743582
Title
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Maggie
Publisher
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Southern Adirondack Library System
Language
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English
Type
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Covid History
Anxiety
Child
Exercise
Family
Mask
Mental Health
News
Politics
School
Stress
Wine
Work From Home
Writing
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Leaving Our Fingerprints
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Contributor
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Southern Adirondack Library System
Covid-History
Age
65
Date
06/29/2020
Location
The location of the interview
Emsworth, Pennsylvania
When did the impact of COVID-19 first occur to you? How did your reaction to COVID-19 change between then and the first case in your town?
Question 1
March 10, 2020. I went shopping on that day and ran into short supplies. I went to 4 stores trying to buy sanitizer and couldn't. A week later I had symptoms of the virus but couldn't discern whether it was an immune disease I have or the COVID-19.
How is your life different now than it was before the pandemic?
Question 2
I have been in isolation almost completely since March 11. I have been working from home since early 2016. That hasn't changed. I cannot visit any doctors' offices. That means my immune disease is not getting the usual assessments such as lab work. I see my doctor's online. My rheumatologist moved to a different state in March and my PCP retired. I feel neglected.
How are you feeling? What are you doing to relieve stress?
Question 3
I have been working on a book I am writing and am pleased that I am not wasting time in commuting to meetings! I do most of my consulting business online anyway so my income has not changed. All my groceries get delivered--and they are never right and there are still lots of shortages. I couldn't get hand soap or paper towels for over 3 months. My balcony garden is the best it has ever been. The balcony is my way to get out of the house and into the sunshine. Bliss! I am getting to long delayed redecorating projects at home. I also allow myself to listen to music of all kinds to relax. I keep a journal to process anxiety and anger as I have for many decades. I talk to a Jungian therapist once a week. I am a bona fide bibliophile so I am reading A LOT.
What have you noticed has changed in your community since the outbreak? What has surprised you?
Question 4
There is hostility everywhere. One of the maintenance men who came to fix the plumbing and lay new kitchen floors felt somehow he could respond to my Yankee hospitality by identifying my home state of New York as the "shit-hole of the world". I see battle lines drawn on neighborhood social media over masks that get down and dirty quickly. Twitter has become toxic.
Are you a business owner who has had to close? If you are still open, how have you had to adjust how your business operates?
Question 5
I own a consulting business. In that capacity I am currently a co-investigator in a study of people with multiple chronic health conditions that is comparing outcomes between telemedicine and wrap around services with professional who go into the patients' homes. We stopped home visits on March 15. The graph of our enrollment dropped like a champion skier off a mountain. I'm working on assignments for the study team and community stakeholders for the fall. The size of the newsletter I write has increased four-fold!
Are you an essential employee? What do you do? What precautions are being taken at your workplace? What precautions are implementing at home?
Question 6
No I am not essential. I am the ethicist in-residence if you will. I think ethicists should be considered essential but--well the book is on ethics in the entire universe of health care. the collapse of the health care system in the pandemic might force us all to see that changes must come.
Are you an employee who has been laid off or furloughed? Were you able to get unemployment? Were you able to retain your health insurance?
Question 7
n/a
Are you working from home? What adjustments or challenges are you experiencing?
Question 8
Yes I am as I have been for four year. I enjoy the decrease in stress from not having to drive in heavy Pittsburgh, PA traffic. Not having to deal with all the driving, even for errands, as I have so much delivered, I am able to focus for extended periods of time. the challenges have to do with my emotional health with the police brutality I see and the mind bending incompetence of the federal response, or lack thereof, to the pandemic. The challenge is to not become despairing.
Do you have children at home? How’s it going?
Question 9
I have one named Sophie. She is a 2-year-old calico. she loves the plants on the balcony too.
If you’re a student, was school canceled? Were you able to complete your studies online? Do you think you’ll be back on campus in the fall?
Question 10
n/a
How are you using social media, the Internet, or digital platforms during the pandemic?
Question 11
I have reduced my Facebook to almost zero and significantly reduced Twitter as well due to the hostility expressed. That is a shame. Social media was a source of connection for me as my illness keeps me house bound as a rule and all doctors tell me to stay home. I got enormous enjoyment being part of a watch party for an historical TV show (TURN:Washington's Spies) until it turned itself. It got horribly toxic due to Trump supporters thoughts about patriotism. I do my work online as a rule so it is business as usual. I get lectures online (National Constitution Center, museum virtual tours, etc) that keep me intellectually stimulated. I saw this on C-Span! Thank God for BookTV!
Did you have to postpone any major life events? (e.g. Graduation, wedding, major birthday) What did you do instead?
Question 12
n/a
Do you have animals? Did you adopt a pet? How have they impacted your day?
Question 13
See above (question 9) for my 2-year-old calico who is very happy that I am home all the time now.
What positive things did you contribute to or notice take place?
Question 14
I hope that my work on liberative health care ethics will make a long-term positive impact. It centers in premature morbidity and mortality that is being expressed in those being most affected by COVID-19.
Did you or someone you know contract COVID-19? What was it like?
Question 15
I did in early March. I have not been able to see any doctor in his office. Two doctors offered the opinion that I did indeed contract it but there was no testing available. I was simply home and very sick alone. I was one of the many who take hydroxychloraquine daily to keep my disease from progressing or being fatal. We were all very afraid when the White House Administration touted it as a "game changer". For us it is. I ran out at the end of March when I was so sick. I did get a 3-month supply in April. The biggest take-away was the almost unspeakable fear and loneliness that goes with being an "elder orphan" and not having anyone to help with cooking, laundry, and simply being there for comforting emotional support. I attend two churches. Both went exclusively online of course. Neither pastor nor elders could come visit. I work in health care. No one much even asked if I was okay. We all hear stories about the heroes. That is because we want to feel we are good and kind. When it comes down to actually going grocery shopping or throwing in a load of laundry or making dinner for a baby boomer we take comfort in believing someone else is doing it. I did have one neighbor offer to buy some groceries in March. That was lovely and very much appreciated.
If you lost someone during the pandemic, how did you celebrate their lives?
Question 16
I did not lose anyone personally. I wept often though, knowing what was gong on with the poor, sick and elderly in the nursing homes and hospitals and dying by themselves in their homes.
What do you wish you knew before the pandemic began?
Question 17
I changed both my PCP and my rheumatologist in March. I wish I knew both doctors who replaced them before I got the virus. It would have been nice to have an established relationship with the men who ended up being on my computer screen.
What would you want future generations to know about the 2020 pandemic? How would you recommend they prepare for it?
Question 18
I would want them to know how utterly unprepared we were in health care both in the way we educate and employ workers at all levels. I want them to see how a profit-driven health care system is morally bankrupt and in need of an overhaul. I want them to understand how important it is to build community support systems and personal relationships with people at all age levels and economic status. I want them to know that ageism is an evil just as much as misogyny and white supremacy. I want them to realize when adversity hits we survive together or we perish together.
How do you think this pandemic will change how we behave going forward? What will the “new normal” look like?
Question 19
As a person who has been working in the public health system since 1989 I can say we do not know how this will change us going forward. We are not merely going through a pandemic. We are simultaneously going through another stage in women's rights, gun violence protests, police brutality, as Black Lives Matter is changing us, we are seeing that we are allowing dark skinned poor people to die unnecessarily as we have been doing unawares till now. All the while we have the most corrupt and incompetent White House in our 240+ years of being a government. We'll see. We are in the midst of the trauma of all those things coming at us at once. We will either be a failed experiment as a liberal democratic republic or we will live up to our potential with the virtue and honor of the men and women who won our independence from oppression. Let's hope the new normal will be a total reformation of who we are as a people.
Is there anything else you would like to add that hasn't already been asked above?
Question 20
Before you reprint any of this please correct the typos!!!! Also, I am looking for folks who are willing to read my material for editing and suggestions. If you know anyone please give them my email mjparkmdiv@aol.com or mjparkccw@gmail.com @imemjae. Thanks for doing this!
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11742199072
Title
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Meg
Publisher
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Southern Adirondack Library System
Language
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English
Type
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Covid History
Anger
Anxiety
Black Lives Matter
Cat
COVID-19 Positive
Delivery
Faith
Grocery
Immuno-Compromised
Isolation
Mental Health
Paper Towels
Pet
Police Brutality
Politics
Read
Sanitizing
Shortage
Social Justice
Social Media
Trauma
Work From Home
Writing
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Leaving Our Fingerprints
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Contributor
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Southern Adirondack Library System
Covid-History
Age
52
Date
06/06/2020
Location
The location of the interview
Town of Jackson, New York
When did the impact of COVID-19 first occur to you? How did your reaction to COVID-19 change between then and the first case in your town?
Question 1
I work at an international boarding school, so some of my Chinese students knew od people affected by the virus.
How is your life different now than it was before the pandemic?
Question 2
It is different in many ways. We have less income as my husband lost his part- time job of twenty years. I had to teach using ZOOM for the past two months and I have had to us the computer much more.
How are you feeling? What are you doing to relieve stress?
Question 3
I feel " different". Part of my habits now include making sure I have a mask in our cars. I have been reading and writing to relieve stress.
What have you noticed has changed in your community since the outbreak? What has surprised you?
Question 4
I have noticed more recently that less people are wearing masks. It has surprised me how divided we are on that safety issue.
Are you a business owner who has had to close? If you are still open, how have you had to adjust how your business operates?
Question 5
I am a seasonal business owner. My summer business is called Tubular Tubes. I am unable to open as my business falls under recreational.
Are you an essential employee? What do you do? What precautions are being taken at your workplace? What precautions are implementing at home?
Question 6
n/a
Are you an employee who has been laid off or furloughed? Were you able to get unemployment? Were you able to retain your health insurance?
Question 7
As of today, I do not have a teaching contract for next year. I think I will be laid off. The worst part is the not knowing.
Are you working from home? What adjustments or challenges are you experiencing?
Question 8
I was working from home when school was in session, however I often had to use the library WIFI as I have spotty internet.
Do you have children at home? How’s it going?
Question 9
n/a
How are you using social media, the Internet, or digital platforms during the pandemic?
Question 11
I prefer using the internet sparingly, but had to Zoom with my students.
Did you have to postpone any major life events? (e.g. Graduation, wedding, major birthday) What did you do instead?
Question 12
We had major events last year, so we have not been impacted too much. I was suppose to travel for pleasure in March, but had to cancel due to Covid.
Do you have animals? Did you adopt a pet? How have they impacted your day?
Question 13
Yes, we have animals. We live on Happy Kids Farm. We had 34 kids this kidding season. Our dog and cats serve as de- stressors.
What positive things did you contribute to or notice take place?
Question 14
I noticed that people have slowed down. I see more kids riding bikes, and more people fishing.
Did you or someone you know contract COVID-19? What was it like?
Question 15
I do know someone sho contracted COVID-19. They were " sick" for 3 days. She was not able to " taste" food.
If you lost someone during the pandemic, how did you celebrate their lives?
Question 16
n/a
What do you wish you knew before the pandemic began?
Question 17
This is the hardest question for me. I like to have answers to questions, so I wish and I still wish that people will take this serioulsy.
What would you want future generations to know about the 2020 pandemic? How would you recommend they prepare for it?
Question 18
I do not think you can prepare for a pandemic. Once you know that you are living in a pandemic- you need to be patient and you need to be informed.
How do you think this pandemic will change how we behave going forward? What will the “new normal” look like?
Question 19
I worry that there will be less physical contact - we were headed that way due to technology. We are humans and we crave touch.
Is there anything else you would like to add that hasn't already been asked above?
Question 20
I Do you think there will be another wave of the pandemic? I read the book The Great Influenza of 1918 and there are many similarities as it relates to press coverage- who to believe and the unimaginable losses of life.
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11673110113
Title
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Peggy
Publisher
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Southern Adirondack Library System
Language
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English
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Covid History
Cat
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