Your pandemic stories
We asked you how COVID-19 is affecting your lives. This is what you have told us. #HumansofCovid19
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Published in:50.50Now, I have to take whatever clients offer for sexI’m a sex worker in South Africa. Sex usually costs 70 rand (about $5), but now I have to accept half that, just to have something for food. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:openDemocracyUK“The government gives me £35 a week to buy food… During the lockdown, my kids do not receive free school meals”As a refugee and single mother, lockdown in the UK is hard. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50Every night, I pray that the pandemic goes awayI’m an informal market trader in South Africa and the breadwinner in our family of four. But now I can’t afford even a single loaf of bread. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50A homebirth seemed like the only option
I have just given birth to my second child – but at home instead of in hospital. There wasn’t a hair on my head that considered going to a hospital during this pandemic. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50New marriage, new country and no friendsI was sent to Iran to be married. My family in Afghanistan ask me how Iranians treat me. How would I know? I’ve never been outside our apartment. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: Opinion"There's rules that apply to them, and there's rules that apply to you"
The Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in the UK has been hit hard by the crisis. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50If I sit back and do nothing, my family won’t surviveI invested all my savings in a tourist shop and café that was due to open in April. Now I deliver desserts to feed my family. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50I’m more afraid of Albania’s police than the virusI collect trash to survive but the curfew makes it hard to go out. They demolished our market, and I’m afraid my house is next. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or workI support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has stopped with lockdown. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must catch everyone in the coronavirus safety netI am lucky, but millions are not. Our government must guarantee a liveable income for everyone – now. It will save lives.
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Published in:50.50I am lonely and miss talks with neighbours
How can I be afraid of the pandemic? I’m living without any means and I’m still alive! I don’t even die. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50We are cheap labour to fight COVID-19I was put on the frontline against the coronavirus. I’m a medical resident. We have no tests, protection or ventilators. And I think I’m infected. #HumansofCOVID19 Español
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Published in:50.50Family offers no solace when it's the source of painHow can LGBTIQ people find solace in family or religion when these are the sources of our pain? #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:50.50Isolated in a toxic relationshipI am in lockdown with my husband who drinks and shouts and breaks things. We live on social grants. My kids are trying to do homework on my phone. #HumansofCOVID19
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Published in:openDemocracyUKPandemic poverty: "I can't afford to live on £94 a week"Four women in the UK explain how the British government's coronavirus support scheme has let them slip through the safety net. #HumansofCOVID19
