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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 it has made me distrust in the government to a degree I never have before. 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 as we get further into this crisis, I’m reminded of Tuskegee and the AIDS pandemic and my distrust that they are helping, or care enough to help, grows. I’m super pro vaccine, 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. 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. I know enough about biology to know that you can’t get sloppy.