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Why This Pandemic Terrifies Me:
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Why This Pandemic Terrifies Me:
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Why This Pandemic Terrifies Me
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text story
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Health & Wellness
English
Emotion
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/03/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
10/12/2020
10/05/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
04/03/2020
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The amount of freak out going on during this is ridiculous considering plenty of people are just wasting money on getting supplies, but what terrifies me most is how inconsiderate and violent people have begun. I have found that a lot of younger people treat this virus as if it is nothing, there are people in our everyday lives that can be seriously affected by this. This COVID 19 virus is very dangerous for me. I have an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's Disease in which your immune system turns against your thyroid and begins attacking it. The thyroid is a butterfly shaped gland in the front of your neck that produces hormones that regulate your metabolism, muscle control, brain development, mood, bone maintenance, and heart and digestive function. The disease makes your thyroid hyperactive initially, in which it will then fluctuate between hyper and hypothyroidism, and during this I had received benign cysts on my thyroid which began crushing my windpipe in my sleep. For nearly two years this disease made me unable to eat anything other than chicken ramen and eggs without my body forcing me to puke. I had to receive two surgeries to completely remove my thyroid which is a very intense and fairly dangerous surgery. Removing my thyroid has me on pills for the rest of my life, which if I do not take makes me ill as well as me having asthma. This disease makes me incredibly susceptible to death if I were to catch the virus COVID 19. This pandemic affects me very personally and it terrifies me that some people don't take it seriously. I understand that yes, some people are overacting to this by buying a years supply of toilet paper and acting like this is the apocalypse. Except there are far too many people under reacting and I find that a lot of selfishness is coming out of this. People I personally know won't acknowledge the severity of this situation for me because it does not affect them personally. It scares me to know how many people can't grasp the concept that they're not the only ones in this and that people they know can be killed because of their lack of care, that I could be killed because of their lack of care. This past month has been really stressful for me and I wish that this whole pandemic would end already. The thing I've learned from all of this is that people genuinely do go by "every man for themselves". I'm terrified of going out for long periods of time and feel the need to wash my hands every time I can. My life has been very turned upside down, I recently found out that I am now furloughed in the company I work for as well as every other employee in the company. I have no source of income at the moment and am about to move into an apartment, I am beyond stressed throughout all of this and just would like to wake up with everything back to normal.
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1025