Karina Josephitis
COVID-19 has affected the whole world in such big ways for a significant period of time. Since the first known cases in late 2019, infection counts have only risen and new variants have mutated and spread rapidly.
After Central’s winter break, many students did not return to school among their peers. Covid cases have raised immensely and many do not know how to handle this or what to do. It has now been a few weeks back to school, and some students are beginning to return. Everybody has reacted differently upon receiving Covid, much like the vaccine. The big question is, what is it like to get Covid?
Sophomore Nalani Noa, explained her experience having Covid, “it’s obviously not something to joke about, it’s not just a typical flu you’d get. It’s very contagious and if you live in a full house you’d more than likely spread it very easily. It was just super uncomfortable. I lost a lot of weight too. It was very painful, and it was hard to breathe. It got very hot very easily. I had no appetite and just looking at food made me feel so nauseous. I felt so out of shape and I couldn’t sleep at night”.
Nalani is a part of the Central Softball team, and she explained how Covid affected her athletic life. “Especially when you’re an athlete it really affects your ability to be athletic and stay in shape. It was hard to travel for traveling sports, the rules were very strict and you could only have a limited amount of people allowed at games. It wasn’t very family-oriented because I couldn’t see my family”.
Xavia Kennedy, a Sophomore, said “I had to be quarantined all alone. At first, I was really fatigued, I couldn’t breathe and I was very congested.”
With Covid comes self-isolation for a certain period of time. Xavia explained about keeping herself occupied within the quarantine, “I was tested a lot and nobody really knew when I could leave or if I even could. I tried to keep myself occupied. I was only sick for a few days but I was quarantined for two weeks”.
Main symptoms of Covid are things such as fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle/body aches, sore throat, fever or chills, etc. Covid itself is very hard to explain how it feels, you never really understand until you contract it and experience it first hand. Not only is the actual virus unpleasant, but the loneliness of isolation that comes with it is a completely different challenge. Throughout the Covid experience, it can be insightful to see how different people deal with their quarantine in many different ways. Xavia and Nalani’s stories show the volume of the impact Covid makes on our lives, and show how we all have the strength to power through it.