staying connected

By Anayeli Perez

How has COVID affected your life?Have you lost your job? Has your health suffered?

In the past 8 months our planet has been suffering from COVID 19. The pandemic is impacting everyone, some more than others, most families are making big changes in their lives due to financial hardships ,cutting work hours including, anxiety in children, tension in parenting or fear. Nearly nine-in-ten U.S adults say their life has changed at least a little as a result of COVID 19 outbreak, including 80% of families who say their life has changed in a major way, according to CNN news.

I recently spoke with my mom(Juana) and she explains how her mom has been affected by cutting job hours and her daughter not able to visit her due to the pandemic.

One of the big challenges tha Juana had to face during this pandemic is cutting jobs hours it is very frustrated since her family depends on her: ”I think cutting job hours is the most thing that affected my family because obviously my family needs the money to pay the bills for example rent, water, light and of course food and in my community the government is not helping all the families that were affected by the pandemic” she explains.

Many families are not receiving help from the government in the United States and all over the world. Families are afraid to ask for help because they are unducomented or don't have access to the internet to sign up or even get informed about resources.“Well in my community a lot of families lost their job and they don't have a backup job or other resources,but in my situation l only have to cut hours, l was very affected because l don't make that much money and now cutting hours affects me more because l have to play bills for we are ok for now” Juana said

Another problem that my Juana had to face is not being able to see me because of the pandemic:” l feel sad that you’re not coming this summer, but we have to stay positive and i'm pretty sure you’re coming next summer so don't worry, we can facetime though” she explains.

But also the pandemic has affected students, due to the pandemic they have to take classes from home but that action can contain some advantages and disadvantages. Angelica Hernandez, a highschool student has been experiencing some disadvantages:”the hardest thing about is stressing about classwork for example we have too much work and we are almost all day in front of a computer”she explains.

In order to stop the pandemic,we have to fight together and take care of ourselves. Some actions that you can take are wearing a face mask, washing your hands and keeping a safe distance.