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

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. We went through a bad case of Covid in our home, including hospitalization and a long (still ongoing) recovery process. 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. 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... So my views haven't changed all that much, but I have reaffirmed the beliefs that guide my political actions.