1. Where do you live? Your job?
I live in Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA. My job is as a developer of enterprises focused on assisting underserved communities in low-income districts across the USA, particularly for social services assisting education, healthcare, and entrepreneurs.
2. Please indicate Your age: below 35 years; 36-50; 51-67; over 67, and your gender
Over 67, male.
3. How your working time and work habits have changed?
Travel to work on proposed projects is not possible; work involves “virtual” meetings; more conference calls and remote work via electronic devices.
4. What has changed in your daily habits? In leisure, socializing, personal and home care, nutrition?
My main activity outside of work involves playing improvisational music and physical exercise at a gym or hiking in natural areas, but these daily habits are no longer easy to take place. We frequently spent time with family, especially with children and grandchildren, and those pleasures are curtailed. Attending church was also a common activity that now has to be enjoyed through live-streaming only. Our circle of friends and colleagues included many connections internationally, and now we are uncertain when we could resume travel to places overseas.
5. Did you take advantage of this period to do something that you promised yourself, but you didn't have time to do?
Reading more books than usual in other disciplines.
6. In this isolation with whom do you feel most in tune?
My spouse and one daughter.
7. Where would you like to be now?
Would like to travel more in my state, particularly to jam with other musicians for audiences in a location that isn’t “virtual.”
8. What do you miss most?
Comaraderie with fellow musicians and hanging out with my granddaughters.
9. Did you discover the importance of something that you didn't give any weight to before?
Only difference is one of emphasis --- we feel fortunate compared to many in our
community who have less than we do. At times of such a global crisis, I feel very grateful to be healthy and relatively safe.
10. Do you think there is something that you have rediscovered and that you don’t want to loose after this period?
I would like to remember this feeling of being grateful for simple, but important things. In addition, I want to be reinvigorated to fight racism, prejudice, anti-science bias, and injustice in my community and in the wider world. We are all one race with the same home being our precious planet earth.
11. What will change next? What would you like to bring with you when this experience will be over? What would you like not to forget?
I never want to forget how politicians who are ignorant about science refused to do the correct things which have resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, if not millions eventually. I also want to remember to do all that I can to help people in the developing world who will still suffer even more when the developing world gets back to “normal” life.
12. How do you perceive change in others? What are the questions you have asked yourself about this situation and that you have never thought about before?
I don’t understand why we have a large group of our society who continue to worship the immoral and disgusting criminal who occupies the White House in our nation’s capital. He lost the popular vote by 3 million in 2016 and could still be elected, according to some analyses, if he will lose by 7 million in our upcoming 2020 election. At a time when the USA should have been one of the leaders in science and medicine which could help all peoples, we have become the epicenter of Covid-19 and are unable to use our power for peace and the general welfare of humanity. We also are not leading to be sure the weakest nations in the developing world have equal access to the required tools to fight this epidemic.
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