{"id":20496,"date":"2021-01-20T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20496"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T19:34:37","slug":"student-editors-letter-its-time-to-break-out-those-rations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/01\/20\/student-editors-letter-its-time-to-break-out-those-rations\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor’s Letter: It’s time to break out those rations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCOVID brain\u201d is a real thing: some people with COVID-19 report a brain fog for months after their diagnosis. So it\u2019s not exactly correct to use that phrase to describe what I\u2019m currently experiencing. Let\u2019s call it \u201cisolation fog.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last couple weeks in particular, I\u2019ve noticed pants and sweaters fit a little looser; I’ve experienced a massive inability to focus on readings and finite details; I’ve lived with a memory loss that\u2019s bordering on concerning and a dark depression that\u2019s, frankly, a pain in the ass. After a decade of living with the latter, it\u2019s fair to say that it hasn\u2019t been caused by this isolation, but lockdown life certainly hasn\u2019t made that aspect any easier.<\/p>\n

Indeed, all of these are telltale signs of long-term social isolation. A new study done by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan found, among other things, that university students\u2019 \u201calready poor\u201d diets worsened significantly during the pandemic and that alcohol intake rose significantly. Other changes\u2014for example, sedentary lifestyles and a decrease in employment\u2014were also of concern.<\/p>\n

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Camosun’s Interurban campus during COVID-19 (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taking this into account along with what I spoke about in last week\u2019s editorial, it\u2019s clearly time to take control. I wish I could write, \u201cIt\u2019s time for change!\u201d but the reality is that provincial health officer Bonnie Henry isn\u2019t going to lift restrictions because they\u2019re starting to be unhealthy and worrisome for people. The government is mainly focused on keeping hospitals from getting overwhelmed. Everything else they address as a side note in press briefings, sure, but the reality is that they\u2019re afterthoughts. They have to be.<\/p>\n

That means it\u2019s our responsibility to go for a run and eat an apple afterwards even though what you might want to do is have three shots of Jameson and pass out in that lovely ratty old housecoat hanging on the back of the door while binge-watching The Good Place<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot about this place that isn\u2019t good. When the pandemic first began I said that I had nothing to offer Camosun students except rations of resilience<\/a>. Looking back, I knew at the time that those rations weren\u2019t needed just yet because we were all still in shock, but a time would come when they would be needed.<\/p>\n

Even though another week gone is another week closer to the beginning of a new and better post-pandemic life, the time for those rations has come. And that\u2019s still all I can really say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCOVID brain\u201d is a real thing: some people with COVID-19 report a brain fog for months after their diagnosis. So it\u2019s not exactly correct to use that phrase to describe what I\u2019m currently experiencing. Let\u2019s call it \u201cisolation fog.\u201d In the last couple weeks in particular, I\u2019ve noticed pants and sweaters fit a little looser; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20513,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496\/revisions\/20513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}