Diary #7:
Time this year has felt really strange. It was already eight months ago that quarantine started
and that is crazy to think about. Halloween has passed and soon enough it will be Thanksgiving.
At first I felt like this year would go by slow considering that we were stuck indoors for the
majority of it, but honestly I am in awe that the year is almost over. I feel like it should still be
March, and it is kind of hard to wrap my head around the fact that I am in college and I
graduated high school. I think this is all so difficult to take in, because all of these
accomplishments and events that have been going on have been happening while I’m still at
home, but it is absolutely insane to think about. I just hope that next year brings more joy and
less quarantine, because I really hope that as I go on to accomplish things I am able to share it
with the people that I care about.
Diary #8:
The Coronavirus has infiltrated into every part of our daily lives. Sure, it makes sense that it has
considering how scary and different it has made things, but it is also crazy to see all of the
different ways that we now see references to it. This pandemic has found its way into television
shows, social media, and basically everything we see. If you turn on the TV you will see news
stories about it and TV shows now have their characters living through it. I have also caught
myself watching old shows where people are hanging out without masks and I have to rethink
and remember that things weren’t always like this, they weren’t even like this at the beginning of
the year. Our view of the world has drastically changed due to Covid-19 and it is kind of
unsettling to think about our “new normal.” However, something interesting to think about when
it comes to what we’re all going through is that it will be highly documented for future
generations to see.
Diary #9:
In today’s society the internet has a major place in the daily lives of mostly everybody. People
will spend hours a day on a computer whether they are writing a paper or posting on social
media about what they did that day, and this will have a huge impact on how this pandemic is
recorded and remembered. There are some people who are recording their daily lives to share
how they’ve kept busy and sane when the world is currently falling apart and there are others
who have decided to start blogging or even just journaling. All of these things are first hand
accounts of this life changing event that we’re all living through, and they will be very important
for future generations that are going to just know about the pandemic through textbooks and not
through actually living during it. This is something that is unprecedented, because when we
were in high school we’d learn about events like this through black and white pictures and books
that had accounts from a few people, but soon kids will be learning with in depth records, and
from a multitude of different people who went through this in different ways.
Diary #10:
It seems as though this whole virus situation was both something that has been going on
forever and something new that just started. We have been wearing masks and taking these
precautions for a while now and with no end in sight it seems as though this is just what normal
life has become. Of course this will end eventually, but I’m sure I’m not the only person who
would feel that it was weird walking into a store without a mask now seeing as it’s been going on
for months. It has been sort of a shock to society. All of a sudden this pandemic hit us out of
nowhere, especially in the United States because of how much the president kept from us for so
long, and we just had to adapt. I think it really goes to show how strong people can be when
they need to be, and for the most part people are willing to work together to bring this to an end.