Merkelly Panghulan and Ishy Bravo

00:02 What is your name and what is your occupation?

00:04 My name is Merkelly and I'm a behavioral health technician.

00:08 What college did you go to, and what's your major?

00:11 I went to writing area community college for my associates and then finished off with my bachelor's at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and I was a psychology major starting off.

00:22 How has Covid affected your everyday lifestyle?

00:26 I started the gym before COVID and when Covid happened, I obviously stopped. I didn't work out, not even at home. So that that was really the biggest thing that happened overall, besides staying at home every day like, that wasn't that big of a change in my lifestyle.

00:49 What has been the most challenging part of this experience?

00:54 Definitely online schooling and not being able to see friends and family.

01:02 Has the COVID pandemic personally changed you as a person?

01:11 I think it did. I can't pinpoint exactly what it changed, but I know that it definitely did.

01:22 During quarantine, what was the hardest thing to do?

01:31 Finding ways to occupy yourself every day was a struggle because it was just the same thing staying in your house and that's it. And then staying late at night so that in the morning, I could just wake up and then not have to, you know, kind of just, like, staying up late and then waking up at, like, 03:00 note. So that the time. So that I was kind of tricking myself into thinking time was going faster and it would end soon. By sleeping late and waking up late.

02:09 What gave you comfort and hope during the pandemic?

02:26 I don't know. Nothing, really.

02:29 There was nothing you were looking forward to after the pandemic?

02:33 Oh, looking forward to after the pandemic? Yeah. All I could think of was just for it to be, like, to end. I mean, every day I would check the news and see, like. I mean, I guess. Well, that's a lie, because when I. When I did see news about, you know, scientists being able to figure out, like, what could be the cost of COVID and vaccines that they're trying really hard to make, I guess that gave me hope.

03:08 Did you like anything about quarantine?

03:13 The money? Quarantine money. I mean, I can't lie, really.

03:23 How did you feel about the mass situation?

03:26 I didn't mind it. I just wish everyone would get it so that, you know, we could have ended sooner. But, you know, not everyone's likes being told what to do. So even if it's for their own.

03:36 Health, how did you ever get Covid? If so, what was it like?

03:42 As of today, I don't believe I got Covid. Like, there were times when I got sick, but I got tested and it was negative. Um. Yeah, I don't think I ever got Covid, to be honest. Hopefully, I don't ever get it.

04:02 That'll be all, thank you.