COVID 2020 a Year Like No Other

Ride the roller coaster of emotions as we look back at COVID 2020. It was A Year Like No Other. This book takes the author's own experiences during quarantine and peppers these with stories from others to provide a historical account of the roller coaster ride of losses, challenges, and opportunities during a chaotic, stressful, unpredictable year. It is told in two parts. The reader will find shared experiences with the author during Part one. Part One details the early months...
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Ride the roller coaster of emotions as we look back at COVID 2020. It was A Year Like No Other. This book takes the author's own experiences during quarantine and peppers these with stories from others to provide a historical account of the roller coaster ride of losses, challenges, and opportunities during a chaotic, stressful, unpredictable year. It is told in two parts. The reader will find shared experiences with the author during Part one. Part One details the early months prior to the shutdown in the United States. It contains personal accounts, including journal entries of the author's writings through the end of 2020. There is humor interspersed with the serious. Confusion and divisiveness are evident throughout this turbulent time. There are similarities and differences drawn from the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918-1919. Part two allows the reader to hear others' perspectives. Complete strangers were willing to expose their own vulnerability and stories. The author interviews Rotarians from around the world, business owners, doctors, nurses, teachers, students, and virus survivors. Their stories were timely and that's what made it raw for those sharing. Some had not talked about their experiences to anyone else.The reports from others are in their own writing, italicized, and unedited by this author. These are real people reporting on how the pandemic affected them.Prompts are included at the end of the chapters for readers' to journal their own experiences. We are writing history for future generations to read about this year like no other.