STUDENT NAME: clee45

MY COVID EXPERIENCE: Please enter a short paragraph here that talks about your life during COVID. Remember to only share details you are happy to be in the public sphere!

OBJECT IMAGE A shy looking young brown puppy sitting in the black leather back seat of a car , facing forward. She is sitting on a blue towel and has a light brown towel behind her. She is being petted by two individuals sitting on either side of her, one of their hands is on her head, the other is on her back.

A sweet little puppy

OBJECT DESCRIPTION AND RELATIONSHIP TO COVID-19: :

 Use this space to tell the story of this object. Why did you choose to put it in the archive? What emotions does it evoke? Is it connected to a particular memory? Contextualize it and help your audience to understand it's relevance. 

 

 

PRIMARY SOURCE DESCRIPTION:

 Use this space to describe a primary source you added to the archive. Why did you select it? How might it help future historians understand what you are going through? What contextual information should they have to accompany this source?

PRIMARY SOURCE:

Open letter to the Ford government signed by SickKids, CHEO, McMaster Children’s Hospital, Canadian Paediatric Society, Children First Canada, and others. The letter urges the Ontario government to re-open schools citing the impact closures and the resulting social isolation on health and well-being of children and youth is impossible to ignore anymore. We are living through a crisis in children and adolescent’s mental health with a dramatic increase in utilization of acute mental health services. As the vaccine rollout continue, all education and school workers are eligible and should be able to return to open schools for the sake of sparring more children from suffering as a result of the closures.
NEWSPAPER HEADLINE

PERSONAL REACTION TO THIS HEADLINE

Historians often have access to newspapers past, but not often to the way that readers felt about them. Use this space to react and respond to your chosen headline. Take care to explain your feelings about the story, providing all relevant points of view wherever possible. 

 

VISUALIZING COVID-19 
Locate one of the visualizations we spoke about in class, or one you've found on your own. After uploading it to CWRC and adding it in the box above, describe it here and, if possible, indicate where the data is from.

COVID Q&A

Describe the moment you realized how serious COVID-19 was:

What did you learn about yourself or the people you live with during COVID-19?

Other than wearing a mask, what was the biggest change you made to your daily life? Do you think this change will remain when all lockdowns are lifted?

Have you learned any new skills during the pandemic?

How do you feel about university education in the last year?

List one positive thing and one negative thing you'll take away from 2020:

What is the best movie or TV show you've watched, or the best book you've read, in the past 18 months?

How large of an impact do you think COVID-19 has had on your mental health?

How has technology impacted your life during lockdown?

How has the pandemic brought wider acknowledgement to systemic racism in Canada?

In what ways do you envision society changing due to the pandemic?

Now that you are done with both the course and your additions to the archive, is there anything you'd like to reflect on?

 

Gallery

Other archival items connected to my experience of COVID-19. Click on any image to enlarge.