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Has the pandemic affected your political views in any way? If so, how?

I don’t think it’s affected my political views that much but <strong>it has made me distrust in the government to a degree I never have before.</strong> Before, I had the belief that during times of hardship, the US would do the right thing by its people. That’s due to the privilege I have in my background, but <strong>as we get further into this crisis, I’m reminded of Tuskegee and the AIDS pandemic</strong> and my distrust that they are helping, or care enough to help, grows. I’m super pro vaccine, <strong>I’m a biology major, and want to work in a hospital, and at the same time I am so distrustful of the federal government at this point that I am not going to get that vaccine right away.</strong> They want to roll it out so low income communities and communities of color have “access first”. Maybe good intentions, but it’s not a good look. The major corona tests didn’t work well, the antibody tests aren’t checking for the right ones, they are so focused on results that they’re getting sloppy. <strong>I know enough about biology to know that you can’t get sloppy.</strong>