• Question: what do you think of covid

    Asked by ben on 11 Jan 2022.
    • Photo: Shona Moore

      Shona Moore answered on 11 Jan 2022:

      SARS-CoV-2 is fascinating! Obviously pandemic life has it’s difficulties and COVID-19 is a very serious disease. But as a scientist, it’s an incredible time to work in immunology!

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      Danielle Nader answered on 11 Jan 2022:

      From a scientific standpoint, it is extremely interesting to work on a virus that is currently impacting the entire world. Most of the time, it is difficult to gain high interest or even funding in scientific work unless it is known worldwide by the general public, like carcinomas, neurological diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS), or other body conditions (CF, diabetes). However, now everyone wants to learn about COVID19, even those who are not scientists. So I think it is great that the community is starting to really understand how crucial science is, and more students are becoming interested in STEM careers.

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      Holly Kerr answered on 11 Jan 2022:

      As a scientist, the virus that causes COVID is really interesting like Shona and Danielle have said. I genuinely love studying it and reading all the fascinating findings that are being released every day. But, it’s a horrible disease that has shook the world off its peg and caused devastation with the amount of lives lost and affected. From a selfish point of view, it has stopped me from seeing my family and friends, travelling to new places and going out and having fun and so me and COVID aren’t great friends on that basis!

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      Melanie Krause answered on 11 Jan 2022:

      Hi Ben,
      As a scientist I think that the virus SARS-CoV-2 that causes Covid-19 is super interesting.. especially it can cause such varying illness.. for some severe and for others nothing. Many other viruses (for example Ebola) make everyone who has it very sick and then a few people die OR they are mild in everyone such as the common cold… so these differences within the same type of infection are really interesting, but on personal not I would just really prefer the virus to go away so that I can go to music festivals again 😉

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      Chris Budd answered on 12 Jan 2022:

      Covid kills! 150 000 deaths is way, way too many. The sooner we beat this horrible desease the better!

    • Photo: Jonny Coates

      Jonny Coates answered on 14 Jan 2022:

      Kinda sucks doesn’t it! I hate being stuck indoors and the number of people who have died/have long term illness is heart breaking. From a scientific standpoint though it has been fascinating and such a huge boost to my career. It’s also been interesting to see how much the public have now engaged with science (or the misinformation campaigns we’ve seen). But these are things I’d trade in right now if it meant COVID went away/had never occurred.

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