I get my information about the pandemic through social media like Instagram and TikTok however I usually have to check them 2 or three times because sometimes people put out the wrong information. Another place I get information is from YouTube on the trending page or their covering of the pandemic where they pull recent information from interviews with doctors and scientists about the latest information on Covid. The last place where I usually get information on Covid is from the local news stations like Lex 18, sometimes I just happen to watch these like when my parents are watching them as well, however they do give me updates on how the Covid is affecting me locally. When it comes to places where I don’t trust the information one the pandemic I usually don’t trust most of what comes from the White House officials who are not doctors or scientists because there has already been so much confusion about what people should and should not do in regards to keeping themselves and others safe. Although my family tends to trust more reliable information regarding Covid, some of my cousins have been invested in conspiracy theories regarding corona that range from it being a way to let the government put microchips in people to the virus being a tool of the devil to mark people with the mark of the beast. Although I can kinda see where they are coming from, especially with incidents in the past like the Tuskegee experiments,where health officials that black people and other POC thought they could trust did unethical experiments that not only hurt them but also put a lot of mistrust in between minority communities and health professionals. This affects me personally as well because even though I know that in order to create a vaccine for Covid there needs to be trials of people testing I don’t want anyone in my family to do these trials because of the fear that something may go wrong.
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