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Good news has been scant in 2020. There is some now. Monday brought the first clear rays of hope since the start of the coronavirus pandemic more than six months ago. Clinical trials on 1,077 people of a vaccine under development at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have shown promising results. Scientists still don’t know if it will protect people against COVID-19. Larger trials involving more people are planned in the United States, UK, South Africa and Brazil. The Serum Institute of India, the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world by number of doses produced and sold globally, also plans to start human trials of the vaccine here next month, and to manufacture a billion doses in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford university over the next year.
There are 22 other COVID-19 vaccines around the world undergoing clinical trials. At least one of those, developed by Chinese firm Sinovac, is also in advanced stages of clinical testing after showing promising results. The Sinovac vaccine is entering large-scale human testing in Brazil and Bangladesh. Several other vaccines are in the race, including one jointly developed by German firm BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer. There is hope that at least one of them, if not more, will prove efficacious in combating COVID-19. Finally, after months of gloom and doom, there is light at the end of the tunnel
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I'm a creature of habit. I enjoy my routine and the sense of stability it provides me. Needless to say, good-old Covid-19 has destroyed my routine and sense of stability. In addition to this, it has done a number on my speech. The precautions and a new way of living, caused by Covid-19, have served as accessories to this wrekage.
My stutter is mild to moderate or, as I like to say, consistently inconsistent. Yet, the events of the past few months have made it more moderate to severe. I've noticed that I'm stuttering a lot more than I typically do. In situations where I would have only a few stutering moments, I'm now having several. In situations where I typically have several stutering moments, I'm now having what seems like a million during a two-minute conversation. I'm also blocking a lot more than I typically do. This was evident when I was talking to my friend, Brad, the other day via Discord. It seemed as if I was blocking at least once during every other sentence.
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I think these excessive stutering moments are due to my lack of a regular routine, the staples of my life being on hold, the stress caused by the uncertainty about Covid-19, and spending too much time worrying about how bad the second wave will be if and when it occurs.
Realising that pre-Covid-19 life is not returning anytime in the near future is causing me more undue stress and anxiety, resulting in more stuttering.
Since the end of March, my work schedule has changed many times. As someone who had the same schedule for two years and liked it, that adjustment took some getting used to. I've played the "what if I or someone I love gets the coronavirus?" game so many times I'm now an expert at it. For the past three months I've been super cautious about who I'm seeing, where I'm going, what I'm touching and how quickly I'll be able to wash my hands, that I'm not able to fully enjoy what I'm doing. I'm also spending too much time longing for a return to some sense of normality. Realising that pre-Covid-19 life is not returning anytime in the near future is causing me more undue stress and anxiety, resulting in more stuttering.
The side effects of the world closing manifest themselves mostly when I'm meeting virtually with others, ordering food, wearing a mask all the time, and in my mental health.
If I'm being honest all of this is doing a number on my mentl health.
If I'm being honest all of this is doing a number on my mental health. I'm having more bad days than good days with my stutter and I'm hyper aware of how much I've been stuttering recently. This isn't to say that I would take a magic pill to ROUTINE
I think these excessive stuttering moments are due to my lack of a regular routine, the staples of my life being on hold, the stress caused by the uncertainty about Covid-19, and spending too much time worrying about how bad the second wave will be if and when it occurs.
Realising that pre-Covid-19 life is not returning anytime in the near future is causing me more undue stress and anxiety, resulting in more stuttering.
Since the end of March, my work schedule has changed many times. As someone who had the same schedule for two years and liked it, that adjustment took some getting used to. I've played the "what if I or someone I love gets the coronavirus?" game so many times I'm now an expert at it. For the past three months I've been super cautious about who I'm seeing, where I'm going, what I'm touching and how quickly I'll be able to wash my hands, that I'm not able to fully enjoy what I'm doing. I'm also spending too much time longing for a return to some sense of normality. Realising that pre-Covid-19 life is not returning anytime in the near future is causing me more undue stress and anxiety, resulting in more stuttering.
The side effects of the world closing manifest themselves mostly when I'm meeting virtually with others, ordering food, wearing a mask all the time, and in my mental health.