These questions are based off of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis' COVID-19 Oral History Project sample questions, with some additions and edits.

Background Questions

• What is the date and time?

• What is your name, and what are the the primary things you do on a day-to-day basis (for example, your job, your extracurricular activities, exercise, family time, etc.)?

• Where did you grow up, and what high school did you graduate from?

• Where do you live now, and what is your neighborhood like?

• When you first learned about COVID-19, what were your thoughts about it? How have your thoughts changed since then?

• What issues have most concerned you about the COVID-19 pandemic?

Employment

• Has COVID-19 affected your job? In what ways?

• Has COVID-19 changed your employment status? In what ways?

• What concerns do you have about the effects of COVID-19 on your employment and the economy more broadly?

• Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the employment of people you know? In what ways?

Lifestyle

• How has COVID-19 affected you and/or your family’s day-to-day activities?

• How are you managing day-to-day activities in your household?

• Has the COVID-19 outbreak affected how you associate and communicate with friends and family? In what ways?

• What have been the biggest challenges that you have faced during the COVID-19 outbreak?

• What have you, your family, and friends done for recreation and exercise during COVID-19 (feel free to include details about shows, games, books, etc.)?

Community

• How has the COVID-19 outbreak affected your community (Remember, you may be part of many communities including school, club, church, job, etc. You are welcome to speak about all of these communities)?

• How are people around you responding to the COVID-19 pandemic?

• Have you seen the people around you change their opinions, day-to-day activities, or relationships in response to the pandemic?

• “Self isolation” and “flattening the curve” have been two key ideas that have emerged during the pandemic. How have you, your family, friends, and community responded to requests to “self isolate” and “flatten the curve”?

• Has COVID-19 changed your relationships with family, friends, and community? In what ways?

Health

• Have you or anybody you know gotten sick during the COVID-19 outbreak? What has been your experience in responding to the sickness?

• In what ways do you think that COVID-19 is affecting people’s mental and/or physical health?

Information

• What have been your primary sources of news during the pandemic?

• Have your news sources changed during the course of the pandemic?

• What do you think are important issues that the media may is or is not covering?

Government

• How have municipal leaders and government officials in your community responded to the outbreak?

• Do you have any thoughts on how local, state, or federal leaders are responding to the crisis differently?

Island Lifeways

• What are the positive and negative aspects of living on islands during a pandemic?

• What are ways your community has come together and organized around COVID-19 issues?

• What is unique about how your island has responded to COVID-19?

• How have you become more aware of our island resources at this time?

• What changes in the ʻāina - land, ocean, resources, animal life - have you noticed with the social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and restrictions on travel policies?

The Future

• Has your experience transformed how you think about your family, friends, and community? In what ways?

• Knowing what you know now, what do you think that individuals, communities, or governments need to keep in mind for the future?