COVID 1-year anniversary: Pandemic like a year without hugs
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
For some people, it was the year with no hugs.
For some, it was a year without church.
For others, it was the year they lost a loved one to a disease they’d never heard of before 2020.
“I miss just getting out and seeing people and going to church,” said retired nurse and Red Cross volunteer Annie Kynard-Hackworth, whose husband died of COVID-19.
“I need to hug people and actually be around them,” she said.
For others, it was the year they lost a job, or their business went under, or they had to scrape by for months with little or no income.
Teacher Liz Glasgow on COVID: ‘I had to really, really budget’
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
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For the first few months after the pandemic hit, life was hard for Liz Glasgow and her young son. The restaurant in the Talladega County town of Lincoln where she worked as a cook closed down. And COVID closures made it so she was no longer able to lead Zumbini music and dance classes for small children at the Trussville Civic Center, a pursuit she pours her heart into and considers a personal passion.
“When the pandemic first hit, obviously we were all like, this is going to be over in two or three weeks, but when I couldn’t teach the Zumbini classes anymore, it was like, what am I going to do? I had to think outside the box,” said Glasgow, who lives in Cropwell, a small St. Clair County community.