It has been nearly a year since Humboldt County Public Health issued a shelter-in-place order that required local residents to stay in their homes except for essential outings to slow the spread of COVID-19. Few could have predicted what the next year would bring, the myriad ways it would change our lives (and us) or what we would lose. As the anniversary approaches, we’d like to hear your stories. How has COVID-19 changed you and your life? What do you miss the most? What has gotten you through and sustained you? What have you learned? Twenty years from now, what moments and feelings will you remember most?
Please keep responses to 300 words or fewer and send them to editor@northcoastjournal.com with “COVID stories” in the subject line by March 12.
This article appears in The Fight of the River People.
Got it early January 2020. Was deathly ill. Kept saying it wasn’t the flu, but waay worse. In Feb it returned, but resovled. In May weird things started happening, bone, muscle, joint pain; vision changes; shortness of breath, chest pain, Fatigue. Miserable. Somewhat resolved now. Everything about my life has changed. But I’m lucky and grateful to be standing, having survived 2020!