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Lauren Leonard and Ryan BreucknerOral History, 2021/12/10

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Lauren Leonard and Ryan BreucknerOral History, 2021/12/10

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A discussion with a peer about what we have learned about the COVID-19 pandemic through learning about other pandemics.

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Type (Dublin Core)

oral history

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Collection (Dublin Core)

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

12/10/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/24/2022
04/21/2022
05/25/2022
06/09/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

12/10/2021

Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)

Lauren Leonard
Ryan Brueckner

Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)

Lauren Leonard
Ryan Brueckner

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Boston
New England
United States of America

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audio

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March 2020 - December 2021

Language (Dublin Core)

English

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00:06:53

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Subject
Date December 10, 2021
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Interviewer Lauren Leonard and Ryan Brueckner
Annotator Lucien Tranchina
Project 50769
Notes/Bio
Minutes 06:53:00

0 Interviewers introduce themselves and give consent to be recorded. Ryan speaks about challenges to "societal norms" resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and past pandemics, specifically, the use of a scapegoat for the outbreak of diseases.

1 Lauren speaks about how those who oppose mask and vaccination mandates challenge societal norms. Ryan speaks about what he would have done differently from the start of the pandemic, for example, maintaining better social distance from peers, while Lauren reveals that she would have done the same things she has been doing (maintaining proper social distance, wearing a mask).

2 Ryan draws comparisons between the COVID-19 pandemic and past pandemics, including the marginalization of certain groups and political/societal divides over how to handle outbreaks. Lauren speaks about how she has noticed how pandemics have more negative impacts on those in lower socioeconomic classes.

3 Ryan talks about how college courses have informed him about the pandemic. He says that his education has provided him with a global perspective of the pandemic and who it affects. Additionally, he reveals that he learned about international health systems and how, when compared to the system employed by the United States, weaknesses can be located with domestic methodology. Lauren speaks to her discovery that everyone faced different experiences and hardships during the pandemic.

4 Ryan states that wearing masks has been handled the best in our society while getting Americans vaccinated has been handled the worst by our society due to the spread of misinformation. Lauren states her belief that sanitation has been handled the best by society while mask and vaccine mandates have been handled poorly.

5 Lauren states her belief that sanitation has been handled the best by society while mask and vaccine mandates have been handled poorly, adding her answer to the question asked about the parts of the pandemic that have been handled well and poorly by society.

6 Ryan reveals that booster hesitency and the spread of alternate variants of COVID-19 is his biggest fear in relation to the pandemic, while Lauren says that she fears that the pandemic will drag on for a long period of time because people fail to realize that they could be infected multiple times with different variants.

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This item was submitted on December 10, 2021 by Lauren Leonard using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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