Pandemic

Abigail Osunde

ENG 101

JUN 15/2021

DR Dockery.

The Pandemic and It is Effect

Can we ever get over this pandemic? As our world, society changed forever. We have been affected in one way and the other the resent covid 19 pandemic and the effect of it are being felt in so many way in our lives and our society. While we are trying to get use to the new way of life like working online, homeschooling and food ordering, there are also lot of people who has no choice other than to face the virus to enable the society to keep going on. The virus has killed a lot of friends, parents, siters, brothers and relatives in the past one year, which have turned our lives upside down yet, we still do not know when the cure for it will be found.it deprived us from seeing our family and friends even while they are sick because of fear of contacting the virus. Although all this was for our safety, but it really affected us socially, affected our mental health and our education

The main idea is that it affected us socially, the pandemic has brought a massive shutdown of the normal life patterns of our social lives. Many communities have experienced changed in their daily social activities because of mandated social distancing, our working place, health, churches, school, social and family relationship has to deal with the change and began to transform their ways of doing thing and started to go online. Social gathering, traveling for vacation , sport arenas and bar was stopped just to stop the spread of the virus, now we separate ourselves from people for fear of contacting it, this have made me feel disconnected from the rest of the world, because we are created to get along with each other but the fear of the virus has overcome it. The pandemic has also slowed down the world economic and the source of supply was affected because of traveling restriction from one country to another, which has lead to loss of people’s job. The economic effect had a direct effect on individual, for example it affected me because at first, I lost my job, then my husband too, I was pregnant and also had a 30 months old boy, the immediate effect cause us to move from our house to another, we were not able to pay our rent.

My second ideal is that it affected me mentally, the pandemic came as a surprise to everyone and the world which causes fear, stress, anxiety and disruption, which has led to shutdown of the county, and people have to stay in isolation , keep social distance and wear mask if we must step out of our doors in other to stop the spread of the virus , however this has effected a lot mentally all over the world. The quarantine may have reduce the spread of the virus but has had a negative effect on mental health. The thought of not able to be with love ones , fear of loss of freedom, loneliness, and the fear of the unknow is affecting mental health. For example, at first I did not believe there could ever be a thing that could shake America like this, when it first shown up I thought it was going to be for a short time, but at the time I discovered, that even the world could not know what to do this became a concern to me, and fear Crip in, and everywhere was short down. Couldn’t go out, this affected my normal life which affected my mental health, I was pregnant during the pandemic, and it was hell, my first trimester I was so sick and I could not go to the hospital for fear of contacting it. Even when I contacted my doctor , she only attended to me via phone, I became frustrated, see same thing every day , same routing, this started to affect me, I couldn’t explain the way I was feelimg, sometime I just find myself crying for no just reason I started making research and I found out that it was sign of depression, yes I became depressed and until l I realize it before I have to force myself out to start taking a work and spending time in the things I love, I stop listening to the news about the pandemic and I became ok.

The third idea,was that it affected my education, the pandemic has changed everything in the world so as the educational system has also been affected and many people was out of school, and everything about school changed. And the rise of online education began to increase, lots of people have to take classes remotely, the introduction of the e-learning was one of the bast thing to some people while it was a nightmare to so many others, because only the elit could afford the cost, and many could not use it because they have no training on how to use a computer, which lead to failure in their school work, for example be for the pandemic started I was already taking a class and after the shut down on march 16th 2020 I have to finish my class online, it was difficult because accessing the math’s center, the writing and the reading center was impossible, I have to struggle through the class to get a good grade.

inconclusion although the pandemic affected us socially, affected our mental health and our education, but it can be prevented if we all can accept some of the rule, like wearing of the mask. keeping social distance, staying away from crowded places, find different ways to catch fun to keep our mental health balance.