1. El trauma de la despedida ausente y los rituales interrumpidos.
La imposibilidad de acompañar a los seres queridos en sus últimos momentos y la cancelación de funerales tradicionales generaron un duelo suspendido y traumático para miles de familias.
- I had to say goodbye to my dad on an ipad at the height of the pandemic in spring 2020.
- My sister died not from covid in 2021. She died alone because we werent allowed in the hospital.
- The first year of the pandemic, i lost my favorite aunt to covid-19. She had to be cremated, and we couldnt even have a funeral for her.
- I never even had the chance to see her.
2. Secuelas psicológicas y la reconfiguración del tiempo.
Los testimonios revelan un impacto profundo en la salud mental, describiendo una sensación de estancamiento emocional y cambios permanentes en la personalidad y la percepción de la realidad.
- The trauma i experienced during the pandemic has legitimately rewired my brain.
- The pandemic created a backlog of unprocessed grief that a lot of people refuse to acknowledge.
- I am not the same person i was before. I am worse, more prone to hopelessness and despair and less likely to see good things in the future.
- My wife said to me the other day that we all died during the covid pandemic and we are all just living in purgatory right now.
3. Indignación política y el peso de la desinformación.
Gran parte del dolor expresado se mezcla con una rabia profunda hacia la gestión gubernamental y hacia aquellos que, por negligencia o negacionismo, contribuyeron a la propagación del virus.
- I dont forget nor forgive trumps lameness and all the bullshit trump spewed.
- My sister died at the beginning of the pandemic because her right wing husband and his firehouse buddies deemed it a plandemic and refused to mask.
- I will never forgive that orange monstrosity for his mishandling of the pandemic and taking my sweet dad away from me.
- My grief is rage these days. My uncle died one month into the official start of the pandemic, april 2020.
4. El agotamiento extremo del personal sanitario.
Los trabajadores de la salud comparten relatos de horror y desamparo, enfrentando la muerte masiva sin los recursos básicos y cargando con el trauma de lo presenciado en las unidades de cuidados intensivos.
- I am a nurse. I put many people in body bags in the pandemic. I have to live to fight another day.
- We lost a third of our dementia unit and we did not have ppe for at least a good month so we had to use cloth masks and rain ponchos.
- The er colleagues looked defeated and beat down another pandemic will end many of us.
- I worked in one of the countries largest covid icus during the pandemic, so dont tell me about covid. You stayed home.
5. Reflexiones sobre la pérdida de la comunidad y el futuro.
A medida que el mundo intenta avanzar, persiste un sentimiento de desconexión social y una tristeza generalizada por la pérdida de la identidad colectiva y la seguridad previa a la crisis.
- The world moved on, but some of us still havent. Were grieving the years we lost, the people, the rituals, the selves.
- I think the pandemic taught me everyone we ever know is a series of memories in our heads.
- This pandemic has tainted everything. Please take care of each other.
- It is wild how visceral and melancholic that time was and utterly unexplainable the experience will be to my nephews.