Ethnography - Interview #3 Transcription LEGEND--> :: I == Interviewer ::E == Interviewee I: Start it... Let's uh... ask you what your occupation is... E: Currently, I'm unemployed. I: Oh... Okay? E: Oh wait, no actually I am employed because I start a new job! Uh... I tol... I told you, I went on an interview. I'm an Ultrasound Technician. I: Oh, okay. How long have you been doing that? E: Ugh... 9 years. I: Nine years...? E: Yeah... I: How long do you intend to do that? E: Uhm... maybe another five years... maybe... I: Okay... so you just got a new job... today? E: I went on an interview yesterday so I start... I officially start the thirtieth, I believe it is. I: Oh okay... Nice! Congratulations! E: Thank you! I: You're about to be in the money. E: Ye... No! I'm working part-time so it's good-- perfect for the baby! I: Yeah. E: So it's gonna be like a good time. I: Indeed. E: And it's only 15 minutes. It's only 15 minutes from where I live so it's perfect, I don't have to go to the city so yeah, it's nice. I: You still go to the city? E: No, I said that I don't have to go to the city, so it's perfect. I: Okay... When was the last time you did something for the first time? E: Oh gosh! I-I--I remember that question! The last time I did something for the first time was... Uhhh... was... Saturday! I... uhhhh... Did a gender-reveal and planned a party all by myself to host for 35 people so that was , that the first time I did something... that was the last time I did something for the first time... that was Saturday. I: Yeah, 35 people outdoors, right? E: Yup! I: E: 35 people outdoors and indoors. It was just a lot! It was my first party planning that I'd ever done. I: Mmmhmmm... That was good though, it was a good turnout. E: Yeah, it was. Thank God. It was a good turn... Everything turned out perfect... There was enough food for everyone. My thing was like oh, my god! I'm not going to have enough food for everyone and like... you know, it was a lot but I'm glad it was a good turnout and everybody brought food so it worked out. That was my main thing. Yeah... I: So do you consider yourself to be a cup half-full or half-empty type of person? E: Uhm... a... half-empty... I: Half-empty, you're a pessimist? E: I'm not a pessimist but I don't know... I don't know how that correlates. I just... you know, I don't know... I'm a optimist but I don't know if the cup half-empty... 'cause they drink half of it. I: Well, it's said that the people who say it's half empty... is uh... they are pessimists, and the ones who say that it's half-full, they optimists... You know, it's just a question I'm asking, E: Yeah, no. I don't know. I: It's not necessarily a gauge-- E: I'm of-- I: Huh? E: I don't think I'm a pessimist I think I'm a optimist but that whole cup full, empty, I don't know who made that theory. I: Yeah... My... me neither... It's just that... I don't think it has any real basis... I guess it depends on your vocabulary... whichever. E: Right. I: So do you travel often? E: Yes, I do. I: How often do you travel? E: Uhm... I mean... I had last year went to three places... Did I go to three places last year? I went to Spain, I went to Dubai, and I went to Puerto Rico last year. I: Oh E: Yeah. So three places. I: Where in Spain did you go? E: Huh? I: Where in Spain did you go? E: Oh, actually not Spain, it was California! And, oh California. I went to uhm... Madrid, Barcelona, and Ibiza. I: Oh, sounds like a good time! E: Yup! It was. It was really nice. It was good. I... I partied and... then... I did a lot of touristy stuff. Go to museums and then try their food and wine... Go into the townnn... It was definitely nice. I like Spain. I: Awesome. So when you went there, how was the language from Spanish in Spain to Puerto Rico? E: Uh... Spanish people speak with a little lisp, a little bit... it's a little different. It's a little different but Puerto Rican Spanish is totally broken a little bit compared to like... because you know I'm half Colombia and half Puerto Rican so like... Colombians speak real proper Spanish... an... Oh... well... Spain... even though Spain... Oh actually no, actually I should say that Spain is where Spanish probably originated from because it's Spanish but they... I'm just not used to it because my dialect is totally different from people in Spain. I think it's the lisp. They have a lisp a little bit with their words but... I could totally understand everything they say which is easy. It's not like Portuguese. Portuguese could be challenging. I: Yeah. Because Portuguese sounds like Russian sometimes. E: Yeah, I don't know. Some of the stuff is like I can catch on and then it just a little... then it just throws me off. I: Yeah... E: So yeah, it's totally... a little different but it's understandable I feel like. It was fine. I spoke my regular Spanish to everyone and they understood me and I understood them so it was no like... glitch or confusion in our dialects when we spoke. It was nice. I: So how has the pandemic affected your traveling habits? E: Uhhh... fff... I can't sca... I'm stuck home all day. Uhm... They have friggin quarantine, certain states where like... even if you wanted to drive somewhere you have to come back and quarantine... It's just... I feel like it's just controlled... it stopped... it stopped my traveling or any ambition to go traveling. I: How long do you think it's gonna last? E: Prolly till next year. I: Oh, that's a pretty long time. E: Yeah, e... I think it's gonna last 'til the summer... next year... that's what I think. But who knows? I dunno. If they try to push this whole vaccine thing I am not... I'm not takin' it but... they'll try to say that's a... that's gonna be a cure... not a cure but a preventative to for other people to... to get it. I'm not getting it. I: So how do you feel about wearing masks? E: I hate it... can't breathe... I can't breathe! I: E: I can't breathe... it's becoming annoying... but ahm... I don't know. It is what it is. I mean, I kinda understand where they're coming from as far as... tryin' to prevent the whole droplets and stuff... the... you know... transmission but at the same time you're not getting any oxygen it's... it's so... you're tryin' to prevent one thing and you're causing another issue. Like I can't breathe, I really can't breathe with those masks. Even the light ones-- the light blue ones that I have... I can't breathe with them! I'm like I get out of breath easily. It's like I'm not really getting any oxygen. So yeah... I don't know how I feel about them. I: Do you think there are any better alternatives than wearing masks? E: Uh... not right now. Unless they come up with something. I don't think so. I: How effective do you think masks are? E: Mmmm... I think they can be somewhat effective. Maybe, I dunno... sixty percent, maybe? I: Oh okay. That's more than half so that's pretty good. E: Yeah, I think a little... I think it does... like someway I'm gonna... I dunno... I: Have you ever encountered someone enforcing you to wear a mask? E: Everywhere place I go... all the restaurants. I: Oh, someone has literally said to you, 'Put a mask on.'? E: No, no no. Because I always have a mask on. So no one has enforced it on me. I: Oh, okay. E: Everywhere I go I have... pretty ha... pretty much it's like part of my... the culture now. Everyone wears one it's kinda like... you can't even go anywhere without it. I: Yeah. Well, you can but you're gonna get looked at or you might get looked at. E: Yeah, somebody is gonna say something or point at... you're gonna be like... the target. I: Yeah, how do you think you would react to that? E: If I what? If I was the target? I: If someone was to say, 'Hey, put a mask on!', and you're like, 'I just walked out of my car!' E: Uhhh... I guess it depends on the circumstances if I'm like... going into the restra... if I'm in the restaurant like if I'm going into a restaurant and they're like, 'Hey, put a mask on' and I totally forgot and I know that's what the rules are enforcing so... in order to get in there... then I'll be like 'Okay, okay'. But if someone's telling me to put a mask on and I'm walking to my car, I'd be like, 'What? Mind your business? What are you talking about? I'm going to my--', it really depends on the environment or where I'm walking into but yeah I think I would take it a little offensively if someone was telling me to take my mask on... put my mask on if I'm just going to my car or somewhere not in a public setting. I: Yeah that makes sense. I: What do you think is driving people to enforce these... the mask on other people? E: Uhhh... the media. I think the media and uh, all these... Dr. Fauci, and all these people saying stuff that that... it needs to be worn and whatever studies they came up with and basically brainwashed. If that's the case I don't... I don't even know if there's enough studies to show... to prove that it's even that... that effective but I feel like the media has a big part of it. I: Oh okay. E: And the fact that every... they enforced it onto everyone, like even the restaurants... the governor is enforcing it, higher ups are the ones who are enforcing it, so... I: Yeah... and like... For example, in New York State, the whole state is required to wear a mask outdoors. E: Right... so you have no choice! I: Yeah... E: Kind of like... your... you're forced! You... I guess it's like... I guess that's like... they're altering your rights. They're trying to alter our rights, they're tryin' to like... not enforce our rights. We have rights to deny or decline whatever they're asking us to do right now. To wear a mask is not a part of the law... we're not breaking the law... but that's what they're doinnng! I: Uhm... How do you feel that social media has impacted your opinions on the pandemic? E: Khuhhhh... as far as the pandemic and their views... not poll... poll... I... I wouldn't call it political views or anything like that. They kind of put fear in our hearts. Basically... Social media... Some social... Some social media... ho-hold on... S-social media puts fear in our hearts and I think they over exaggerate a lot of it. And then at the same time, social media could be like downplaying it, too. 'Cuz this... both... I think hearsay because... there's a lot of people that oppose of certain things, too. So there's a lot of uhm... influence in different ways, I feel like... Ghed... uhm... Towards like you know, the whole pandemic. And viewing about... everything-- how it's affecting our society, affecting our economy, how it's affecting chi... people and... everything -- how it's affecting our health! So... it's good and bad. I: Speaking of health, do you feel that your health is at risk due to COVID-19? E: Mmmm... I don't know. This is a good question. I don't.... I'm not like a super... I'm not goin' too crazy about it... Because I've come across people that had COVID and they didn't have any symptoms and I have had symptoms really bad... so I don't let it try to let it affect my... the way... the way I am normally. I'm just treating it as a flu or you know... another common cold or something... I: Another sickness. E: Yeah, another sickness... I: That you definitely don't wanna get. E: That I definitely don't want to get but... I try to stay... I mean, I'm home all day so I don't really... but... well, I do shop a lot but-- I do a lot of shopping! other than shopping, I'm really not exposed to a lot of people. I: And are you concerned for anyone in your household? E: My... what happen?\ I: Are you concerned for anyone in your household? E: Nnn... No. If anything I should be concerned with myself because I'm pregnant. But uh... no, I'm not really concerned. Mii... I: What were you going to say? E: I said xxxx, xxxx works... at the... in the city but he only works with one person and he's alway... he's always outside. He works outside-- construction, so he's not like... in the subways or comin' across so many people... but he works with only one guy to do their job so he's outside all day, you know... And then he comes home. So I'm not like really worried about him contracting or bringing it home or something because he's around so many people. I: Did COVID-19 have any effect on your hygienic practices? E: Hygienic... Uhhh, yeah! Uhhhh... I definitely have more... I definitely used hand sanitizer more than I ever done it... I ever done in my life. We have one in the car, in the house, in my baaaag... uhhmm... that's pretty uhm... that's pretty much it. I mean, I wash my hands the same. It's just... nothing's changed other than the hand sanitizers and bringing that around me every where that I go. I: So would you say that the po... the uhm, pandemic has had a positive effect or a negative effect on your life? E: Negatif... Definitely negative... I: How so? E: Uht... Uhhh... I would say... Being home all... well! ... I would say a little bit of both. In my case, because, well, being home all day and not socializing with my family, not being able to see my family, not being able to see my grandparents because I don't wanna... In the beginning we didn't know anything about it. We didn't know how contagious it was... I didn't wanna be around them but just being around people and doing regular stuff like just going out to eat and like... just going out to a bar after work and then everyone's stuck at home and then I lost my job, and I was like... and I kinda felt-- suffered a little depression because I ha... because I was pregnant. And then uhm, my hormones all over so I'm home by myself. But the only gu--the good thing was that I got a d... I had Bella. So she was a puppy, so she was like in my therapy so she has... she got the best part of it. So Bella got the best part of this whole pandemic. And also they laid me off at the perfect time cuz... Now d... I'm pregnant and xxxx can hold it down for us as far as the house. So... I was like, 'Okay, you know what? I guess I'm gonna be a stay at home mom.' So I looked at it that way, so it's good and bad. Both uhm, both scenarios in my life. I: So the good outweighs the bad. E: Oh yeah! I think the good outweighs the bad in this... in this situation-- in my situation. I think if I wasn't pregnant then I would probably be a little bit-- and if I didn't have Bella-- I'd definitely be more bit depressed. Because then it's like I'm home... now it's hard for me to find a job and like I'm by myself all day and it's.... Nothing to look forward to. I: Interesting. E: Yeah... I: So where do you consider yourself to be on the political scale from authoritarian to libertarian? E: From what? I: Authoritarian to libertarian. E: Authoritarian, what's authoritarian? I: Authoritarian is more like strict... very strict... kind of person or government. But libertarian can be a more... lax... uh... government or person. E: Yeah, I'm definitely, I'm more lax-- libertarian. I: Okay, one... okay. So on the political spectrum from liberal to conservative would you consider yourself to be? E: Uhh... liberal. I: Yeah? So why's that? E: Uhh... I-I don't like too many rules uhm... and... I dunno I feel like we should just be... just be free to do whatever we want. I mean not WHATEVER we want but there should some kind of rules enforced but we don't... I don't like to feel like we're controlled by the government or controlled by all these... you know, rules or laws, that sometimes don't even make any sense because a lot of these upper-hand, specially the government, they try to enforce certain laws and enforce certain things to people and it's kinda like... it's forced upon us and we have no control over it. That's the only thing that I don't like about it. I: Okay... Do you think we'll find a cure for COVID-19 soon? E: Uhm, a cure? No. I don't think they'll ever find a cure. I think they would get a... they'd get a vaccine like a flu shot and kind of give us the antibodies. And who knows whatever else is in that vaccine... So... I don't think there's ever going to be a cure. I: You never know... I don't know if you remember the Tuskegee Experiment.\ E: No, what's that? I: When they injected uhm... African-Americans with syphilis. E: Yeah. I: Yeah... you never know... where somebody's ethics lie... E: Yeah... that's true. Excuse me, what are you doing? Sorry, I'm not talking to you! I: So do you believe that legality and morality are equal? E: Legality and morality? Hmmm... I gotta think about that one. I: For example, if something is illegal or legal then it must be considered to be moral or immoral. E: No... 'cuz... what I may think its moral... or... what I may think of moral is not what you believe is moral, whatever you believe that's moral. I think our moral insight of life or what we believe in ourself is... everyone's perspective is different. And wh... certain things that they might think is legal... For example, they had legal marijuana, does that mean it's bad for you? No, because there's other states that have... it is legal to smoke marijuana and they use it for medical reasons, so... Yahhh, I don't think so. I don't think... I don't think... think there's a difference. I: Okay... I: Uhm... have you noticed government restrictions. My apologies-- have you noticed the government restrictions during this pandemic? E: The gov... you said, 'Government restrictions?' I: Yeah, are you aware of them? E: Like what? I: The ones that have been put into place. Are you aware of any in play? E: Mmm... government restrictions? No. I: Do you feel that your local government is limiting your freedom? E: Nuh... Ohhh, actually, yeah... the whole mask thing. They're like enforcing us and shutting down restaurants and putting curfews on us... in that aspect. I: Did you have a curfew growing up? E: Kind of! But uh... I never followed the curfew. I: Oh okay... So how do you feel about having a curfew as an adult? E: I don't... I don't take it light... I don't take it nicely. It's not... something I like. I don't like rules like that-- especially as an adult. I pay my taxes and I... I do my dues. I: So do you agree with the safety guidelines from the government? \ E: No. I: Why not? E: I don't trust the government. I don't... I don't think they're for our best interest at... sometimes. I: So who's got your best interest? E: Myself. ... I dunno and... I dunno, it depends on the situations and... on what, like suhhhh... It really depends because like even doctors are trained... well, even they are medical, even your own health... doctors are trained to prescribe medicine all the time, just prescriptions... and those are gon... that... some of those prescriptions cause side effects cause side effects and they keep you on these medications so you're on it forever. So it's a business, so you're always constantly paying and big Pharma is involved so... uhh... I don't think a lot of people, I don't think a lot of governments have you best interests... maybe some doctors-- maybe some holistic doctors or holistic in the medical part of it, I think some... some... maybe some holistic doctors have their best interest... But uhm, as far as the government, I dunno... It just... I just think it's all corrupted. I: Can be some good parts too but I understand what you're saying. E: Yeah, there's both. It's... it's some good parts too but like they do have... maybe like in the law as far as enforcing law. Certain laws that protect... uhm... that protect the system. I-i... in that-in that case... There are some... there are some goods and bads but... for the most part I don't think I trust mostly anything that the government or law enforcement or... the upper-hands kinda enforce upon us... unless it's makes sense to me, that's all. I: Oh... So what are some of the positive aspects of the guidelines the states are imposing? E: Uhm... Uhm... let me see, let me see, I'm trying to think. Right now... They, they, they should... They sh.. they... they... they should... I-I'm not... not for the fact that they're trying to enforce the whole... that's all they can do right now is enforce the mask. 'Cuz and... they're tryin' to keep people home but... I would say the only thing that is maybe like enforcing masks when you're in a group setting. I guess that's helping out the people from the spread of the pandemic in this situation. You're say... you're saying about for the pandemic or in general? I: The pandemic. E: Yeah, so I would say the masks and that's pretty much all they can do... right now. I mean, I hope they don't shut down the whole economy again... I: We'll see how that works out... E: Yeah... the way Biden is saying that he's gonna shut down for six weeks... He will... he says he'll do a national shutdown for six weeks. Are you kidding me? We'll go crazy. They'll... we had looting before-- people will start robbing other people's houses... they'll li... they'll... it'll get ugly. I: Yeah, it would be an interesting scenario to occur... E: Yeah... I: I hope it doesn't but we'll see what happens. E: I know... I: So do you feel that the government should have a say in your health? E: Should have a say in my health as... as far as like how I... dress my or what I choose as my rights or... wha'dyu mean? I: Your... your health... So... Do you... Do you think they should have a say in... what you eat, how you eat, uh... E: No! I: Uh... anything you digest or whatever you do to your body... E: No! I think it's our right. It's our body we should decide on what we want to do. I: So something like self-ownership? E: Yeah. I: Oh, okay... E: No. I: So what is your definition of freedom? E: Uhm... my definition of freedom is... ugh... sorry... not asking for permission, to be able to do what I feel is best for me and my life and not have someone try to dictate what I can... you know, like... know not have someone interfere or dictate what I can and can't do... as long as I'm not breaking any major... as long as I'm not hurting anybody. As long as I'm not doing any, any... any damage to anyone or hurting anyone intentionally, physically, or... or... even emotionally, I feel like I should be able to do whatever I choose to do. I'm... that's it... no... no boundaries... kind of... no boundaries but to the limit. Unless it's like... you're doing a severe crime but... no killing or anything like that but I feel like no boundaries and... and I don't have anyone trying to constantly monitor me and tell me what I can eat, can't eat... or... if I can travel or not travel... that would be nice. I: So then should the government limit people's freedom in the interest of the community? E: Uhmmm... no they shouldn't but... they're going to ... they're definitely going to. I me... you know what? The thing is it really depends... that's my personal opinion, I don't like to be told what to do... uhm... as far as the government they're gonna do whatever they want and people are okay with that because the government has us brainwash... has people brain... the... the... the whole system is all brainwashed, everyone's brain washed. So they feel like... the government and everybody on the upper-hands-- the mayor; and they all have their best interest for us but that's not necessarily true but they'll follow the rules... I have... we have... I have no choice. I would love to have that freedom that I can, 'Okay, I'm not gonna wear a mask. I'm not gonna do nothin'. I'm just gonna do whatever they tell me not to do.', but then I'll get locked up. I: E: but then I'm like, 'Alright', but then I'll be in a bad place. I: So what should the government's involvement be during a pandemic? E: Uhh... hmmm... that's a good question. What should a government... The government should... when it comes to money... And trying to help the... trying to help us out as far as the situations where... where we are at right now with the unemployment rate being so high. Figuring out where they're gonna get the funds. They have the funds but how are they gonna distribute the funds to... help our people? I think... I think that's the main concern now or like if they're plan... if they're planning to shut things down then they need to figure out how people are going to feed their kids, how to feed their family. So I think financially, they should play a big part of that because they are the ones who pretty much control everything like that... or the treasure does. I: So what would be the limit of their reach? E: Huh? I: What would be government's limit of their reach-- ideally? E: As far as what, like... can you give me an example? I: How much they'd be able to do... in... if... in-in the case of a pandemic, like where... where would the government's reach end without encroaching on your freedom or liberty? E: Like what... what's the limit. Like where they should stop? I: Yeah, where should they stop? E: Uhhh where... uhhhmmm... When they're taking money from... when it comes to taking money from me. Taking money from me during these times when it's scarce right now and... I think that when they're dipping into our money... to try... you know, like, to try to help... Just... just... messing with my... our money and a situation with anything with finance because... I: Time is money. E: Huh? I: Time is money. E: Yeah and I... I'm not even working now, so like... money is everything right now. And there's so many people that are unemployed it's like... I don't even know how all these people do it with... like... they have all these kids and they lost their job and or they lost their business and they're like shtr... just struggling and tryna make it day by day and that's... it sucks, it's heartbreaking-- it really is... But if a government tries to dip into their little savings that they have and they're dipping into their savings because they can do that or maybe because whatever reason they're trying to do it, that'll be dead wrong. That'll be evil. I: What do you think about politics taking the stage during the pandemic? E: Uhhhmm... I think that they are a part of the whole system, too. I don't... I don't agree with it but it is what it is. They're gonna... they're using it to their advantage too, so... there's nothing you could really do about it. I: Well, there are some things but they take a while to accomplish. E: Yeah... I: And then... they might end you up in a... in jail for a night or two. E: Yeah, I dunno if I wanna do that. I: Yeah, it's not the ideal situation. E: Mmmhmm I: Do you think that pan... uhm... payment protection and stimulus checks were necessary? E: Necessary for everyone? No. Maybe people that were unemployed that they could've tracked like they could track people that were unemployed at that time, yes, I think it was. I: Did they contribute to the citizens' well being? E: Uhm... For stimulus check or just in general? I: Uhm, the payment protection and stimulus checks. E: Repeat the question, sorry. I: Do you think they contributed to the citizens' well being? E: No. I think they kinda just did that to shut people off... UP! Because it was getting chaotic with the looting and I think... and they realized that there's millions and millions of people unemployed and they're losing their jobs because of the shutdown that they chose... not them in particularly but what the government... and everyone else... enforced upon everyone, so... I don't think it's for their wellbeing, I think it's... they just did that because they kinda just wanna silence everybody for a little bit. I: So would you ever to be in government? E: Ugh, no. Definitely not. I: Why not? E: Uhhh... I don't trust them. I: Okay... That's fair enough but let's say the shoe's on the other foot... the table's turned and the booger's in the other nose or somethin' like that, I dunno... E: Mmmhmm... I: Nostril even, I dunno. E: I: If you were a state government official, what are the changes you would make to the COVID-19 guidelines? E: Ahhh... Do you know what all the guidelines are? I: I'm aware of quite a bit of them... However, I don't... I did not read this last Executive Order. E: Oh, okay, because I don't know too much about the guidelines but as far as them like shuttin' things down, I don't know if they... if they're the ones that are doing this... but the guidelines may be a part of the guidelines of the mask part of it is the guidelines, I'm assuming. I would... You're saying, 'What would I change?'-- I: Yeah. E: Hmmm... Ahhh... This is... this is a tough question. Because they're doing a lot of studies, well, they're supposed to be doing a lot of studies and... as far as it go... I'm not sure what I would do that's different, because... I know if I was part of the government prolly... I dunno. I would try to put more money... My thing is the money situation-- I'd put more money to those people that've lost their jobs and that're... that are unemployed but... the guidelines as far as COVID... I don't even know. I don't even know where to begin. I would leave it... the scientists. The scientists really have to do more studies. This is like something we'd never been prepared for...or even came across until the... when was the swine flu? That was like how many years ago? I: At least 10. E: Yeah, 10 years ago. And that wasn't even as bad as this... as what we're going through now. So... I would try to enforce... whatever did in the swine flu... whatever kind of research or... how they controlled it las... last time. I would try to come up with a group of people and see what they did and what worked back then-- I would do more research and see whatever worked back then to try to... try to do it ten times better this time. But in... in this situation it's so unpredictable because we don't know anything about it and it's so contagious, supposedly. Uh, also, now that I think about it, the hospitals get paid... they get paid... they get paid for every person that they document that's a swine... that's a COVID-19 patient, so they're pushing these people to constantly say that they're positive and... and these people that are dying, so... there would... I would... probably cut some of that off. You know, so... there's a lot of corruption there in the hospitals. They're using that as an excuse... they're using COVID for everything as far as their deaths, so they're tryin' to... So I think there's a lot of data uhm... error, also. So I would definitely have to see if that could be controlled. Uhm... I'm just a little bit more... I mean, all you can do is try to do research and have everybody try to get together with all the scientists and... studies... but right now they only have to mask to try to prevent it and they're trying to shut things down like early. I mean that's... they're... they're trying. I can't say they're not. But... I dunno... Oh, it's a tough situation-- really can't even answer that situation-- I don't even know. I: Okay. Well, in light of the whole situation with the pandemic, what are some of your most positive experiences? E: Uhmm... I got to be closer to my husband. Ya know, 'cuz I'm here all day so I see him a lot, all day when he gets home. And my... and my dog! And my baby, so she's... I think those... Those are positive things and then also I appreciate... I appreciate the little things now, like going out to dinner. I appreciate like the little... the things I took for granted-- socializing with people. Y'know. Like after work we'll go out after work and get a couple drinks and socialize with someone just random... somebody right next to me... or the bartender and I don't have to be six feet away from somebody and I don't have to wear a mask, and it could just be something so simple. And just... I be something so simple. And you know, I can actually touch somebody, I can shake somebody's hand and... no one's gonna look at me different, or if I cough it's okay. I: Organic. E: Yeah, I miss that. I forgot what that's like, honestly... I miss dancing... I lu... I miss dancing! I miss dancing-- Spanish music, during the summer is when they do all the salsa uhm... the salsa pier when there's thousands of people. They have live bands there and everyone's dancing with each other and... I miss that. I: So what are your positive experiences? E: Ah oh! I: You listed them... I'm sorry. E: Would... being closer to xxxx, and uhm... and being closer to my dog and xxxx and being home, and being closer to them. Cuz I... when I was working I'd be getting home around 6, I would be exhausted. Sometimes I didn't feel like cooking and just kinda like relaxed and went to bed so it was very routine all the time. I: Oh, okay. E: So now it's like I'm here so we get to spend some time. We got to the park, we go out to eat, we... not go out to eat but... we do go out to eat but we're still doing more things that we couldn't do when I was working and getting home at 6:30 at night. I take... we'll go to the dog park, we'll go running, we got bikes, we went bike riding together, during the daytime when he gets home... Those things... I wouldn't be able to do... only on the weekends. I: Oh, okay. The pandemic worked out for you. E: Yeah, it workout... In this... in this situation... and I got laid off so I wasn't too happy with my other job, so... I'm glad. I: Nothing happens before its time. E: Oh, you're right about that. I: So I just want to end off with a few other questions, basic questions, such as what is your age? E: I'm 38. I: What is your sex? E: I am female. I: What is your race? E: Hispanic. I: ... Entonces, Latina! 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