Emily Osip

My experience during the pandemic hasn’t been terrible yet it hasn’t been the best. However, the pandemic has taken a toll on my mental health and other factors surrounding the pandemic as well. Everything happening in the past year with Covid, the social injustices coming to a rise taking the lives of many people of color, and the political disputes. My anxieties were and still are sometimes at high levels between the pandemic and political disputes. I bring up the political disputes because many rumors were spreading on rights regarding women and their body choices and for members of the LG(B)TQ+ community, which I'm a member of myself (B) and a woman, making it something personal to me. All these rumors and things being spread up in the air with these rights was nerve-wracking and I didn’t know what to or what not to believe. Which is ironically perfect in a time of such uncertainty. In addition to that, the racial social injustices from last year up until now are also surreal. Though these social injustices don’t affect me directly (though I am a strong ally), there was no reason any of it should be excused or should have happened in the first place. I shouldn’t have to worry about my friends and my niece being targeted racially by law enforcement that’s supposed to be protecting them.