Nethmi Bathige

I am Nethmi and I use she/her pronouns. I am a junior double majoring in Biology and Geography with a concentration in Community and Global Health and Food, Agriculture and Society. I am from Sri Lanka (pictured above). I like to swim, exercise and watch documentaries during my free time.

Pandemic Journal Entries:

"After the winner of the presidential election was announced yesterday, one thing I kept thinking about was how President-Elect Biden will go about with his COVID response. While the Trump administration has seen that it is not necessary to impose lockdowns to control the spread of the virus since it will harm the economy, his COVID response has been a failure because close to 250,000 people have died by now."

"My hope is that by the middle of the year at least we might be able to see some light at the end of the tunnel, however, everything seems so grim right now. With up to 50 million Americans traveling to see family during the past week, this seemed to bring back memories of Chinese New Year in January which set the initial trigger to spread COVID around the world."