The Student Body’s Fight Against Covid-19

In the year of 2020 alone, most people on the planet has found ways to adapt to the new rules and guidelines following the Coronavirus outbreak. This could be your medical doctor who is working on the frontlines, to your next door neighbour who is currently unemployed due to safety reasons and is even affecting your parents’ mental health.
The student body has learned to grow and adapt along with the help and aide of the teachers during the wake of the pandemic, and are still working strong now towards the end with the release of the new Pfizer vaccine which will slowly bring everyone back to normal.
Euan McManus (11) is dealing with the effects of the pandemic on his own personal terms, and has reached out about how he has kept up with his mental health during the outbreak and his experiences with quarantine. This starts with his personal experience with slowing the spread of the virus.
McManus has done what we all have been told to do for the safety of others, as it helps slow the spread and make sure no one gets sick in the future who are close to him,
“The measures I took to avoid getting/spreading Covid-19 are social distancing and isolation as well as wearing a mask in public,” said McManus.
His health decisions serve well for the state mandates that have been set in place and are helping slow the spread of the virus which is seemingly starting to spiral out of control.
McManus has also found new ways to communicate with his best friends since quarantine in March,
“Because my friends and I talk on Discord now, I think we interact more now,”
His relationship with his friends has actually strengthened since he has learned the value of friendship and given how fragile the current circumstances are he says he is able to cope and has kept up with his mental health as a whole.
“I haven’t had any mental health problems since Covid started… My homework keeps me occupied, so I don’t need to find anything new to do,”
His future plans focus on strengthening his current relationships with friends and communicating with more people since the pandemic has changed his overall thoughts on communication. On the whole, his future plans consist of getting back together and making more connections with others,
“I’ll probably try to create more bonds with people personally post-Covid because it would be nice to have better relationships with people in general,”
The pandemic has personally taught McManus about the value of communication and also helping others and himself to slow the spread so that nobody is risking their health choices. This helps prevent the spread of the virus and also teaches a valuable life lesson to remain healthy in the future, which will benefit everybody at the individual level, and will be efficient for slowing the spread if a situation similar to this one happens again in the future.