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Student nurses have it tough at the best of times, but throw a global pandemic into the mix and suddenly it makes it ten times harder. Izzy, 19, is a second-year student nurse who has only ever known nursing during a pandemic. She was thrown in at the deep end. With the first placement that […]
Locked in. Isolated. I looked outside my house and it was a ghost town after the first lockdown was announced. The whole process felt so surreal it was almost like a dream- or nightmare. I couldn’t help but have strong feelings of boredom after all the social aspects of my life were cut out. Sure, […]
It sounds so stupid. But the day my jade face roller snapped in two, lying there in my sink, I just thought right, that’s it, the absolute pinnacle. You’re probably thinking why does this even matter? But that’s the strange and funny thing about bad days, you remember all the little details like it was […]
I turned 25 over the Christmas period and one of my birthday gifts was a mental breakdown. I battled with the feeling that, due to Coronavirus, I was missing out on crucial experiences that young people are meant to have. I had a quarter-life-crisis if you will. On reflection, I should be grateful. I was able […]
Lockdown and restrictions on meeting people made my 18th…interesting As someone who thoroughly enjoys celebrating a birthday, when I realised my big 18th birthday would be in lockdown, I was honestly a bit gutted. Every year I plan something full out to do. My original plans were to go to Cardiff with my friends and […]
April 2020, was when I attended my grandad’s socially distanced funeral, which at the time the circumstances were kind of normalised. Yet, looking back, it was a completely bizarre and cold situation. My grandad spent his last months in a care home and with the Covid restrictions at the time, I wasn’t allowed to visit him. Dealing with a death of […]
It’s crazy to imagine that after all that we have been through with the Coronavirus pandemic so far, that mask mandates don’t seem bad at all. I remember a time where people would refuse to wear masks, fighting the mandates and seemingly outraged by the concept of forcing someone to wear a piece of fabric […]
New cases of covid have reached an estimate of 35000 across Gloucestershire. The rising cases have led to the intensive care unit at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital becoming under pressure and overwhelmed. Despite the rate of people who are double jabbed in Gloucestershire reaching 80%, many of the patients who are admitted to the intensive care […]
“Most days I come home and feel absolutely exhausted, trying to support people who have no idea what’s going on in the world and then trying to support myself is just heartbreaking’ says health care support worker Chantelle Court. “Sometimes I wish I could just be at home doing Chloe Ting workouts and making iced […]
“I’ve stood with people before, where they have confronted people and people are just like, ‘F*** off’, I don’t want to do that”. The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted how important essential supermarket workers are to households across the UK. Every day they’re putting their lives at risk to maintain some sort of normality. Supermarket employees […]