Blog Post #2
Tony Moore
English Composition 1
When did Covid-19 affect my life the most? It all started early august, right around the beginning of the football season. In my senior year of high school, I was around 17 years old. My school was eleven floors with tons of elevators and stairs, so it was pretty big, so many students had different interests in academics, sports, clubs, etc. But during my early life, I quickly found a passion for football. I don’t know if it was me watching my dad cheer for his favorite team or if it was me playing backyard football with close friends that made me love the game this much. As soon as my senior year started, everyone on the team was forced to wear masks to practices, film studies, and work-outs. After a while, things got pretty standard until the season was about to start. The schedules were released, and the coaches notified players that parents couldn’t come to most games due to COVID-19. Once the news reached me, I quickly panicked because my parents could always go to my games in the past. I finished the season with offers from over 7+ offers from different schools. Most schools couldn’t offer kids in my class due to COVID and several college players being offered another year of eligibility for the same reason. Basically, my whole senior year was ruined due to COVID-19.
Later that year, the pandemic started to get worse. Around December, the numbers rose, and people fought for their lives every day. I wouldn’t necessarily say COVID affected my life around this time, but it definitely affected the people around me. Going into 2020 was very stressful, from my parents making sure we had enough food to survive to a family member dying from the disease. Before these things happened, I didn’t really take COVID seriously; maybe it was because I didn’t know anybody who was experiencing these things that I saw on TV or perhaps because I didn’t think these things could happen to me. I soon was humbled and understood that I needed to take proper precautions to care for myself.