About the Author

Hello readers. My name is Riley Miller. I am from Owensboro, Kentucky. I am a white female coming from a middle class family of hard working people. The Covid pandemic has not taken a toll on my family. I have no family working in the medical field and not one of my family members has retracted the virus. My family's income comes from my father, who is a building contractor that was not required to stop working during quarantine. I know that I am very lucky to have this situation and cannot relate to the masses of people who have been affected. I previously came in contact with a small number of people who later tested positive for the virus, but was fortunate enough to have tested negative. However, I do believe that I may have retracted the virus in February of this year due to having similar symptoms and testing negative for the flu. It was well before Covid was pronounced a global pandemic and tests became available. 

Even though my family has stayed healthy throughout the pandemic, I still feel as if Covid has made a negative impact on my life. Covid took away my senior year and the summer that followed. It is just high school and public health means a lot more than state games. prom, and graduation. However, I still lost a lot of experiences because of it. Most of these experiences I can never get back. I did try to make the best of it though, and so did my high school. I hope to make up for my missed experiences in my college years to come.