Whitney Chappell, a professor of Spanish linguistics at UTSA, said she wanted to focus on the Hispanic community because statistics were showing that they were more negatively impacted by the pandemic.
Participants in UTSA's oral history project watch interviews of themselves about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated by UTSA Professor of Spanish Linguistics Whitney Chappell.A woman who disinfected each and every egg. A mother of two who experienced her first panic attack. A graduate student who thought he was witnessing the end of the world.
By the time the interviews wrapped up, the U.S. death toll had surpassed 800,000, but vaccines were widely available and many schools had reopened. A worrying new variant, omicron, had just been identified by scientists in South Africa. One woman recounted that she had resorted to Hispanic cultural healing practices to treat her husband’s COVID-19 diagnosis, including putting rubbing alcohol in his belly button. Another recounted the exact moment she questioned the future of the world: when she couldn’t find bottled water or paper towels at the supermarket.“What caused me the most fear was that every day that passed, there was something new,” then-graduate student Ada Zamarripa said in her November 2020 interview.
She did hear some hope, mostly for the vaccine that became widely available by early 2021, which allowed people to spend time in person with family and friends again.The San Antonio Report recently spoke to two participants who took part in the oral history project, showing them their videos and hearing their reflections on their pandemic experiences.
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