COVID-19 and social media

 

This is a video I found on TikTok which has been one of the main outlets for this generation to express their emotions about current events. This video was posted on April 4th, 2020 when I came across it around that time, it was the same time when my school was finalizing cancellations he to covid and the media was raging with memes and content about the virus. I resonated with this video when I saw it so I saved it immediately. I liked how it had a tune to a song that mostly everyone knows that kind of has the same kind of mood that us seniors in high school had about the pandemic and the loss of our senior year. In this TikTok, the creator mentions how “the other grades think it’s funny”. This was something that the seniors in high school were having trouble with during this time because we felt we had a special situation as we had our last finalizing moments of high school taken away from us and the lower classes kind of took it as a joke and couldn’t understand why we were so upset because they still theoretically had time to experience their most important milestones in high school. 

This photo is something that I have found on Instagram, and have seen a lot of in general. In America, I feel like the media shows us a lot of the successes of other countries with COVID-19. This is almost comforting, but then I think about it more and I remember that the US has cut ties with the World Health Organization (WHO). This makes me worried that if a working vaccine is developed in another country, it will be hard for the U.S. to access it. I feel like a lot of people can tell that the US is kind of far behind and we are almost digging ourselves in to a deeper hole by not creating national lockdown laws strict enough an blind siding international health resources. This has been something that frustrates me the most during this pandemic.