Covid-19 Pandemic: Staying at home with ice-cold Corona’s?

These last few weeks have been quite crazy to be honest. The nature of this pandemic literally has the entire world on shutdown. The amount of effort that local and national governments have put into reducing the amount of interaction between people is astounding and will definitely be a story that I will be telling my kids about. Everything from eating out to the ways college classes are instructed has completely changed and literally impacts everyone (those infected and those who are not). I don’t know exactly when we will be getting back to “normal”, but what I do know is that this virus will change the way people will look at disease and how we can prevent such outbreaks in the future.

My personal experience with the covid-19 virus is quite crazy. For spring break this year, I was in El Salvador for a mission trip where a group of students and myself would have the chance to help those less fortunate have access to clean water. Towards the end of our trip we began to hear rumors of corona outbreaks increasing in the United States and other places in Europe. But, with no cases being reported in El Salvador at the time, we thought we would not run into any problems getting back to the states. We were wrong. Our flight with American was cancelled due to the lack of planes that were not allowed to leave the U.S and go to other countries. We had to stay in El Salvador for an extra day (which I wasn’t complaining about), but had to make numerous calls to eventually get a flight that would take us to Miami. During this time also, many of became sick with bacterial infections from food we ate and this created a lot of problems for us (A LOT of paperwork clearly outlining we did not have the corona virus so that we would be allowed back into the states).

By the time we got back into the states, I was honestly more worried about getting the virus from the airport or from interacting with those who were in my neighborhood. I have been on edge a little and really try to limit my interactions with those (no touching of other hands, no touching of my face, etc.). As far as classes go, it is going to be difficulty. The inability to interact with professors will hurt many students and this will impact our ability to go to graduate schools I believe. All I can do now is just stay in my house, complete my school work, watch Netflix, and hit up those corona’s (not really, I am not of age, but its the principal behind it: don’t be stupid and be in big public places).