2021 03 26
作者 Article by Terence Kim金卓年 （盧頌欣譯）
一個孩子對新冠疫症一整年的看法 （“一個孩子對新冠疫症的看法”的續集）
新冠疫症影響南安省已經有一年的時間。今時今日，在加拿大和世界各地依然有新冠疫症病例。在我第一篇疫中情文中，我寫了新冠疫情對我的影響。現在，我寫我在疫症發生一年後的感想。
人人都曾經期望在2021 年，防疫針會來臨，而新冠疫症會消失。防疫針確實面世了，但分配得很慢，到現在還有新的病例出現。防疫針只是可以讓成年人用，我和其他孩子們都未能打這防疫針。
一月時，因爲安省南部封城，我被逼在網上上課。我們都預計會這樣，但仍然有一件事我們沒法習慣，就是不能親身見面。放聖誕假期前，我們可以大家一起在學校，多好呢。不過新冠疫情卻又把我們分開了。幸好，我們在二月就可以親身回校上課了，但我們要很小心保持距離和帶口罩。有些朋友們留在網上上課，不能在學校和我見面。前幾天，有一些網上上課的朋友回校了，我們都很高興。相對於在網上上課，我們更喜歡親身上課，而我們也學會了好好珍惜大家在一起的時間。
2020 是很困難的一年，希望2021 年以下的日子可以好過吧！
(本文版權：© Terence Kim 2021)
A Child's Perspective of A Whole Year of COVID-19 (The Sequel to Love in Pandemic A Child's Perspective to Covid 19)
Terence Kim
It has now been a year after the pandemic began to affect southern Ontario. To this day, there are still active COVID cases in Canada and around the world. In my first article for Love in Pandemic, I chose to write on how COVID-19 impacted me. Now, I am writing about how I feel about it after a whole year.
Everyone had hoped 2021 would be the year in which vaccines would arrive and COVID-19 would be gone. Vaccines have been made but the distribution is slow, and there are still more COVID cases to this day. Vaccines are only available for adults. Children including me cannot get the vaccine just yet.
In January, I was stuck in online school because of the lockdown. We all knew that it was going to be like this, but there was one thing that we still are not used to: not seeing each other in person. It was so nice to be in school together before the Christmas holidays, but COVID separated us again. Fortunately, we could go to school in person again starting in February, but we have to be extra careful about distancing and masks. Some friends stayed online, so they could not see me in person. A few days ago, some of the online students came back to school in person, and we are so happy together. We all enjoy in-person school so much more than online school, and we have really learned to treasure our time together.
2020 has been a rough year. Let’s hope the rest of 2021 is good.
(Copyright of the text © Terence Kim, 2021)