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In Sickness & Health: Blessings and Lessons From The Pandemic
By: Danielle G.
In An Instant, Everything Changed
On March 6, 2020, Jamaica announced its first case of COVID-19, the mysterious virus that has been — and still is — wreaking biological havoc all over the world. Since then, the ticking of the metronome of time and space has seemed to be knocked completely out of tune.
I had to move home from university in a matter of 48 hours. Every programme and schedule up to that point was pushed back for a month and was to be reorganized to accommodate the newness of being at home 24/7. One month of no school immediately sounds like a slice of heaven for any 12 year old, and probably for some university students. For a final year student such as myself, however, this readjustment sounded like pure chaos.
Blessings And Lessons From A Pandemic
My friend Khadijah always reiterates that in everything, there is something to be grateful for, and there is abundance. It is up to us to find it. This virus consequentially gave us students an abundance of time. We had time to spend with our families, with our friends who are close by, with ourselves. It gave us time to learn a new skill, cook something new, binge Avatar twice, and finish the never-ending papers that…
