My Corona is a series of personal stories about the pandemic, life in isolation and Victorians’ hopes and fears for the future.

All stories are Creative Commons, and can be reproduced with attribution.

 

 


It’s been really difficult, particularly with the lack of certainty.


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I just pray every day that we will be allowed to go outside of the suburb, just to get food.


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I could see the doctors talking but couldn’t understand what they were saying. It was very isolating.


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“If I’d been in a private high-rise block, there is no way known they could have got away with it.”


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“I disconnected from the troubled, bizarre world, free of its pain and madness, though not free from my own.”


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Jinghua Qian turned freelance. A week later, COVID-19 shut down the country.


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“Thousands of masked faces on the street in the middle of a pandemic, thousands of voices chanting, ‘bla(c)k lives matter’.”


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How do you socially distance and ‘keep your hands to yourself’ if you need touch to navigate?


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I never wanted him to see me upset, so I would wait until I had a shower or when I was in my car alone to cry.


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