Can’t Plan (a Public Health Worker)

Personally, I’ve been okay with it. It’s a new way of doing things, but generally, as a black and ethnic minority, I think it's affected me more. You know, coupled with the aspect of racial injustice and inequality, you know, the movement that's going on now, and black people and ethnic minorities and other ethnic minority groups being more affected by COVID than, you know, white people are. So I think it's just been a really, a balance between positive and negative, negative in the sense that I'm a black woman, but positive in the aspect that I've been able to deal with it. And my kids have been able to be home and do their schoolwork and that's gone really well, but then when it came to the Black Lives Matter movement that it was also positive that they were home and were able to talk through those things, and deal with it, and you know, they had questions that we could answer, 'cause it would have been really, really difficult if that happened if they were still in school. So yeah, I really don't - I think the other aspect that I just found difficult with COVID is that you can't plan. You can't plan for tomorrow, whether it's personally or professionally. You know, you can't plan to go on holiday, you can't plan with work, you know, meetings and things like that, or when you are kind of like going to go back to normality and whatever that would mean, you know, not being able to go to church, 'cause that's a really big part of my life. But then again, I've been able to do that online, whether it's through YouTube or, you know, just, social media.