Peter (he/his) is sharing his insights about his pandemic from it’s beggining to now, what was difficult and what have he learned. Hear his story (in English).

Uh, hello. Hello? Uh, could you tell me, uh, what has been your experience of COVID-19, uh, in the pandemic? And what is life for you? Like now? Uh, that's the worst thing ever happened to my life. COVID-19 that's the worst experience. Uh, during the lockdown quarantine time, I couldn't do nothing with stuff like I like to do, for example, to hang out with friends to have fun with, uh, play football parties and that stuff

And now the situation is getting better and better. Uh, they found the vaccine for against virus. So I think everything will be OK

And, uh, where you were keeping the contact of your friends like online. Or you did some kind of just not to lose connection. Or What did you do? We are online, online contacting, talking

We do a video chats to see each other Uh-huh. And and, uh But maybe there was some parts of the, uh, time that you enjoyed that, like maybe being more with yourself or something like that. It was a boring time for me, OK? And, um, maybe you learn something from that or what did you What did you bring right now? to right now live from the pandemic from the quarantine

Some insights in when I when I was during the quarantine, I was in home. I was line, uh, stuff like computer skills, something like that reading a lot of books. Right

So it sounds useful. Yeah, OK, but, uh, So you wouldn't like to come back to the quarantine, right? And, um what, maybe have changed. Like maybe, uh, change some perspective to some kind of things to some friends, maybe

Uh uh, like, um, it changed some things about, uh, what changed a lot of things for my life. Like habits. I changed a lot of habits

Could you tell me more? What kind of for example? Uh, for example, I didn't read the books, So I now read the books. Uh, I sleep more. Yeah, that's OK

And, um, what in general, maybe changed in your country? Like, uh, yeah, Right now, it's still the quarantine in some countries, but, uh, what kind of things have changed, For example, some places not working some other ways of working, uh uh, change the economic of my country, the people's mind over and that. But they not going to the better they going to the worst and, like in what way do you mean that, like change the perspective to economy. How they going to worse the economic, but because of what, you are not working that much

Uh, you know, there was a quarantine and restaurants. Coffee shops didn't work. And right now, are they recovering? Uh, yeah, but it's hard for them

Do you think the economy will come back to the same point before the quarantine fast or it will take time. I think economy will grow worse about one tourist. And after that, we will be OK

And, um, do you know now it is changing all stuff, the economy. There wouldn't be like a paper money. There will be all electronic

Yeah, it's an innovative thing to do. And, um, do you know how C situation changed? For example, how many students are not working anymore? Uh, how many people lost their jobs or they, like, adapted themselves? Somehow a lot of people lose their jobs, and that's hard for him. So the restaurant was closed

A lot of, uh, factories also closed, so, you know, it was a lot of losing jobs and Uh, but maybe there are some, like, progressive changes in these jobs. Like maybe they are creating some kind of, uh, di di digital jobs so that people could work more easily if that other pandemic would come forward when the pandemic came. Like quarantines and lockdowns

There are, uh, became a lot of new online jobs. So the people start to work well, working online. So now if you don't work online, you are not in

So you need to work online. That's the digital. Uh, that's digitalization

Right? Um, and, uh, I'm interested also. What about the business? Uh, in the whole area, Like maybe there appeared more small business where people started to create things, uh, from their own habits from their own, uh, loved activities. Uh, how is it? So, like I said, so now if you now every business is working online, so if you don't have online page or something like that, you're not

So, but are there many startups like new ones? Yeah. That's a lot of new businesses. And, uh, what do you think? What, uh, did affect that? Like that? People had, uh, the courage to start their own business

Even though they never did that. I think that was, um, like that's happened because they're they're in their home and the lockdown. And they have, like, free time to think, to get more ideas

And they become a lot of ideas. That's OK. And do you yourself would consider, consider starting your business or your business? OK, could you tell me more? What do you do? Uh, I have stocks in one company, one holding it's not That's a holding with more than 100

Nice. Um, and let's talk about, like, now, what is life like now what has changed for you? Maybe, um, maybe you notice some notices. What's the travelling with some part or participating in some events or anything? Everything is changed

In what way? Travelling was changed. You need to prove that you're vaccinated or, uh, negative test. And that's I think that's a kind of, uh, like selecting people

So if you're vaccinated, you can travel. And if you don't, you can't. And that situation you grab the freedom from the people

So I think that's, uh but but, uh, that that situation prevents you from travelling a little bit more or still, you don't care if you wanna go as earlier. You do it right now, but just have some obstacles. Yeah, OK

And I think, uh, maybe the last one, uh, many people think, uh, talk about that normal phrase. Uh, so do you think that the previous normal will, uh, come back someday? Or it will never be the same again? Life without masks, activities without vaccines without this happen. But the people communicate now online

They're going to the coffin. They didn't talk to their phones. Like, didn't that happen before as well? That's happening

But now it's more. And do you think it's possible to change that in some way? I think it will be hard to change that. Yeah, because, uh, you know, like, I think that people after counting should be missing other people, not the screens

So it's quite weird to hear. Maybe they should, like, put the phones down and just hug each other. That's not happening, right? Yeah, that's OK

Well, we will see in a few months or years how it will happen. And thank you for conversation. Thank you

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