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

<strong>Living in a country where people don't have to worry about the financial burden of being sick, I have become even more committed than before to the belief that society should provide universal health care as a basic right.</strong> We went through a <strong>bad case of Covid in our home, </strong>including hospitalization and a long (still ongoing) recovery process. <strong>I cannot imagine how much more stressful this whole experience would be if we had to simultaneously worry about how we could pay for everything.</strong> We are indeed privileged even so because we have the means to pay for a private supplemental insurance on top of the social security coverage, but in this case everything has actually been covered by the basic insurance: doctor visits, medical scans, hospitalization and all treatments, medicines... <strong>So my views haven't changed all that much, but I have reaffirmed the beliefs that guide my political actions.</strong>