Janet Kushner-Kow

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Dr. Janet Kushner-Kow is the physician program director of elder care at Providence Health Care and division head of geriatric medicine at the University of British Columbia.

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by Sean Chen

An abnormal normal

Delta. Comirnaty. Tridemic. Bivalent. Masking. These were just some of the words featured in my daily word search throughout the day.
by Vaneeza Dilnawaz

There’s always more than one side to a story

COVID-19? A pandemic, yet also a mystery.
by Yousef Mousavi

Moving forward

When the pandemic started, I was halfway through Grade 9. My friends and I had just started working out at the local gym.
by Ysabelle Tumaneng

My Salvation

Where is Salvation?
by Amelia Thompson

It was the year 2020…

I lost two years of my youth when the pandemic began; something that started as a nice break from school quickly ended in loss of memories.
by Andy Zhang-Ren

Amateur time-travelling

I’m sure we all have intrusive thoughts, what the French call “l'appel du vide,” and at the top of the route, all I could think about was unclipping myself.
by Aysha Martin

Waking memories

Everything is different, the bed, the walls, the layout and smell of the house, but so familiar at the same time? I miss that.
by Bee Cooper

Isolation

I learned the meaning of the word “quarantine” today, and a new meaning to the word “isolation.”
by Charlotte Blissitt

A good way to heal

The hardest part was feeling like there was nothing you could do to help.
by Chloe Fabalena

Making the most of each day

I felt as if the breather that the pandemic and isolation gave me was not a break, but a limitation on the person I knew I could become.
by Emily Hull

Bonfire

My hands just callous instead of scarring, so it’s alright. I can still make coffee, clean the counter and smile politely when I get screamed at.
by Flor Angela Diaz

Evolving with COVID

I feel I have overcome and survived the wrath of COVID although the reality is, it’s not temporary, it’s indefinite.
by Harshika Lumare

Nothing

When will it end? When can I feel whole? Do I only continue to chase these standards? But what if I falter? I fall below?

Missed opportunity

Being allowed to play again felt like such luxury. We were finally returning to some normalcy.

Impacts on an ordinary schoolgirl

I’m thankful to be able to walk through Vancouver and breathe in the fresh air, feel the cool, crisp wind on my face without it being hidden by a mask.
by Marzia Rahman

3 years robbed

Three years that should have been high school. Turned out as a mean few years that I’ll never get back
by Mojann Zibapour

Do Svidaniya

Collective horror but we’re so alone. Feeling like I was the only one. No matter how much I rebuild
by Paige Wallace

My experience during the pandemic

What even was a pandemic? There’s no way that this can last any longer than March break, right?

by Precious Alabi

Changing

I was paranoid and anxious because of the news I had seen about the virus on social media, which was my news outlet at that time.
by Sania Sami

Infected Sugar Cookies

What even was a pandemic? There’s no way that this can last any longer than March break, right?

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