Challenges that Quarantine Caused
Quarantine caused many challenges and difficulties for most people around the world. Many people handled their struggles differently than others. Jennasee Robison gives her side from Quarantine and June Christiansen gives her side.
There is a new variant going around which may cause us to go into Quarantine again. As Carrie Macmillan the website producer of the Yale Medicine page said, “This variant, which has unofficially been nicknamed “Pirola,”… has more than 30 mutations to its spike protein… The spike protein is how the coronavirus enters human cells…. it is similar to the number of mutations that differed between Delta, one of the early strains of the coronavirus, and Omicron…. has so many mutations that make it different from other coronavirus strains, many medical experts wonder if it has the potential to bypass immune defenses both from natural infection and prior vaccination, Dr. Roberts explains.” (Yale Medicine, P1,2,9). Covid is here to stay and it may affect us in various ways, causing many more problems.
What made Quarantine in 2020 so difficult? Quarantine had so many different impacts on different people. It created a major struggle for citizens all around the world. It caused difficulty in getting hired and keeping a job making a high count of job delays when working.
Many people did different things when in Quarantine, all around the world. During Quarantine in 2020, June Christiansen, a Kearns High school teacher, worked on her farm and Jennasee Robison who is also a Kearns High School teacher, was teaching online while pregnant with twins. They both faced lots of problems with working and had lots of struggles to deal with.
During COVID, many could often not leave their homes to go somewhere or visit other public locations. Throughout the time of COVID-19, a lot of people lost their jobs due to high COVID-19 counts and how severe the pandemic became. If a job was hands-on or social, it was likely that the job would be suspended Jennasee Robison explained how difficult it was. She said, “I would stress myself out and be working from seven in the morning to five o’clock at night.” Most people had to work from home.
In addition, there is a big difference between being online and being face-to-face. Many people struggled with the change from being in person to being online but in their own ways. With some people, it might have affected their daily habits, ability to work, stress about work, and more. Not only was being online a big struggle for teenagers, but also it was a big struggle for teachers. Jennasee Robison explained, “It was hard because I want my students to do well. So, I’m very on top of them, trying to be like, ‘Hey! Take this test!”
Many news articles and many people from all over the world believe that COVID-19 will come back and put it in quarantine. But many think this is very unlikely as Jennasee Robison said, “A lot of us have built up immunity to it, which helps. For it to come back and affect our schools and community, it has to affect our hospitals first.” Many believe that COVID is just like a simple common cold, it comes and goes away and everything returns to normal. June Christiansen says, “I have my doubts. We have come so far and dealt with it. We may be out for a week or two but it won’t get big enough to go into full lockdown or quarantine”.
“(31 July to 27 August 2023), over 1.4 million new COVID-19 cases and over 1800 deaths were reported to WHO,…As of 27 August 2023, over 770 million confirmed cases and over 6.9 million deaths have been reported globally…” World Health Organization, ). Covid impacted people from all over the world. It affected hospitals, patients, families, and anyone involved in the care taking process. Quarantine was very difficult because of the stress from work, no one being able to leave their home, anxiety, online work, not being able to see others face to face, and much more.
Resources:
https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/weekly-epidemiological-update-on-covid-19—1-september-2023
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/new-covid-variant-ba286-pirola
