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March 11th, 2020. The Day I took COVID-19 Seriously
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March 11th, 2020. The Day I took COVID-19 Seriously
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04/30/2020
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March 11th, 2020.
That’s the date I started to take COVID-19 seriously. I realize that for many this date seems like it might be a bit too soon considering the fact that it wasn’t until weeks later the country started shutting down. But, for someone like me that lives my life around sports and particularly the NBA, when two players on my favorite team, the Utah Jazz tested positive for it and therefore shut down every single sports league in just 24 hours, that is when it hit me that this is very serious and the fact that people could have no symptoms and still carry it absolutely frightened me.
But, I’m not going to sit here and say I’ve been living in a bubble even though I should since I smoked for 5 years which puts me at a higher risk. However, I will say that every little thing I do will always have that voice in your head telling you to not touch something or not make physical contact with your loved ones. It kind of makes you wonder if that’s just how you’re going to live the rest of your life. Anyway, I’m kind of just rambling at this point so i’ll get to my story now.
I should start it off by saying I’m contributing to this as a Senior in my last semester at ASU taking a REL 101 course to finish off my minor. For the class at this time we’ve been asked to pivot to talking mostly about how COVID-19 has affected religion specifically for our assignments. As someone who isn’t religious and taking these courses it’s hard to draw from personal experiences however in talking to one of my friends who is a resident at a hospital and how this has affected him spiritually and in his career he really had an interesting anecdote I wanted to share.
He told me a story about a kid around my age being in the hospital getting treatment for COVID-19. He was one of the lucky ones and had a high chance of surviving but definitely had some dangerous symptoms that required him to be in the hospital. In the couple of weeks he spent with this person the thing he kept saying was how he wanted to use this as an opportunity to live his life differently. He told him he had issues in the past with his family and kept talking about it as another opportunity to mend those relationships. In hearing that from someone who actually had to go through the horrors of the disease and spend 2 weeks in mostly isolation it kind of motivated him to reach out to the people he’d been avoiding or lost touch with for one reason or another, mostly dumb ones. If you haven’t caught on yet, that person was me. We kind of stopped being friends for 5 years despite knowing each other our whole lives and have since fully reconnected.
So, I guess if you were to take something from this I would want it to be that sometimes it doesn’t really take personal experiences to impact you. In times like these it’s important to know what is, well, important and as the world sort of slows down around you maybe use this time to do something productive or reconnect with people you’ve lost touch with. I know it’s difficult but in a few years when we look back on this maybe you’ll be able to have a happy memory in a sea of bad ones.
#REL101
That’s the date I started to take COVID-19 seriously. I realize that for many this date seems like it might be a bit too soon considering the fact that it wasn’t until weeks later the country started shutting down. But, for someone like me that lives my life around sports and particularly the NBA, when two players on my favorite team, the Utah Jazz tested positive for it and therefore shut down every single sports league in just 24 hours, that is when it hit me that this is very serious and the fact that people could have no symptoms and still carry it absolutely frightened me.
But, I’m not going to sit here and say I’ve been living in a bubble even though I should since I smoked for 5 years which puts me at a higher risk. However, I will say that every little thing I do will always have that voice in your head telling you to not touch something or not make physical contact with your loved ones. It kind of makes you wonder if that’s just how you’re going to live the rest of your life. Anyway, I’m kind of just rambling at this point so i’ll get to my story now.
I should start it off by saying I’m contributing to this as a Senior in my last semester at ASU taking a REL 101 course to finish off my minor. For the class at this time we’ve been asked to pivot to talking mostly about how COVID-19 has affected religion specifically for our assignments. As someone who isn’t religious and taking these courses it’s hard to draw from personal experiences however in talking to one of my friends who is a resident at a hospital and how this has affected him spiritually and in his career he really had an interesting anecdote I wanted to share.
He told me a story about a kid around my age being in the hospital getting treatment for COVID-19. He was one of the lucky ones and had a high chance of surviving but definitely had some dangerous symptoms that required him to be in the hospital. In the couple of weeks he spent with this person the thing he kept saying was how he wanted to use this as an opportunity to live his life differently. He told him he had issues in the past with his family and kept talking about it as another opportunity to mend those relationships. In hearing that from someone who actually had to go through the horrors of the disease and spend 2 weeks in mostly isolation it kind of motivated him to reach out to the people he’d been avoiding or lost touch with for one reason or another, mostly dumb ones. If you haven’t caught on yet, that person was me. We kind of stopped being friends for 5 years despite knowing each other our whole lives and have since fully reconnected.
So, I guess if you were to take something from this I would want it to be that sometimes it doesn’t really take personal experiences to impact you. In times like these it’s important to know what is, well, important and as the world sort of slows down around you maybe use this time to do something productive or reconnect with people you’ve lost touch with. I know it’s difficult but in a few years when we look back on this maybe you’ll be able to have a happy memory in a sea of bad ones.
#REL101
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