
Pandemic Diary

Pandemic Diary: Week 13, or when will there be good news?
Anti-racism demonstrations continue in the United States, at the same time as case numbers surge higher than ever in many states.

Pandemic Diary: Week 12, or the week covid-19 got knocked from the headlines
Anti-racism demonstrations broke out in the United States after the death of George Floyd. This was the week the world’s attention...

Pandemic Diary: Week 11, or is this the new normal?
This chart shows B.C.'s cumulative diagnosed covid-19 cases compared to other countries and the rest of Canada. (Source: B.C.'s Restart...

Pandemic Diary: Photos from the quarantine, part two
British Columbians have emerged from their homes this week, as the province starts to relax restrictions due to the covid-19 pandemic....

Pandemic Diary: Week 10, or the week we broke out
British Columbia started to reopen this week, with hair salons, restaurants and other businesses opening their doors.

Racism has no place in covid-19 fight
This Wikimedia map shows the density of covid-19 infections per capita as of May 19, 2020. Racism in any setting is disgusting. In a...

Pandemic Diary: Week nine, or keep calm and carry on
Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, often closes out her daily briefings saying, "Be kind, be calm and be safe." As we...

The health mysteries of covid-19
Covid-19 is still very much a mystery. Photo by Pixabay. We’re two months into this pandemic, and there remain more questions than...

Pandemic Diary: Week eight, or a light at the end of the tunnel
B.C. will start to ease restrictions in mid-May. Photo: ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) B.C. announced its plan to reopen society...

Don’t count on being freed from self-isolation this week
This chart shows the effects of resuming more contact between people in B.C. (From B.C. government.) I’m not expecting any major changes...

Pandemic Diary: Week seven or care to dance?
The "dance" is the long period of slowing reopening, while managing covid-19. (Image bySergei Tokmakov from Pixabay) The world has...

Pandemic Diary: Week six, or have you had COVID-19 without knowing it?
The Honda Celebration of Light, a mid-summer fireworks festival held in Vancouver for the past 30 years has been cancelled due to...

Pandemic Diary: New Zealand's way forward could be a model
Are you looking forward to the day you get to meet your grandmother for tea? Play a game of pickup softball?

Pandemic Diary: Who gets a ventilator?
A made-in-B.C. ethical framework will guide decisions over scarce resources if COVID-19 cases start overwhelming B.C. hospitals. Should a...

Classes will be smaller, more spread out if schools reopen
Playgrounds throughout Metro Vancouver are sealed off with yellow tape. Tracy Sherlock photo. When schools do reopen, classrooms are...

Pandemic Diary: Week five, or 'Are we there yet?'
As we finish week five in self-isolation, the theme has to be “when the heck is this going to be over?”

Pandemic Diary: Will schools re-open before summer?
Dr. Bonnie Henry said the effects of school closures on vulnerable students can last generations. (Photo by B.C. government.) It’s still...

Pandemic Diary: Building the world we want for 'after'
Dining out with friends is impossible during COVID-19, but not forever. Photo: supplied. After a month of social distancing and staying...

Pandemic Diary: Week four, or the new normal
It’s hard to believe it has been four weeks of self-isolating and social distancing. Time is warping.
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Tracy Sherlock is a freelance journalist based in Vancouver. She worked as a reporter and editor at the Vancouver Sun until 2017 and served as education beat reporter and books editor. She has also worked in community papers and as a web editor. Tracy has received the Jack Webster Award, B.C.’s top journalism prize, and received a citation of merit for the Michener Award, a national journalism award for public service journalism.






















