Ghee Hock’s Oral History

● Interviewee is a 29 year old male, Chinese, Malaysian
● Caught COVID-19 in January 2021, self-quarantined at home for 20 days
● Self-medicated himself with Panadol and vitamins at home as the Ministry of Health did not contact him at all
● Equates COVID-19 fever to dengue fever
● He was more worried about the aftereffects of COVID-19 like hair loss, low stamina and weak lungs than the symptoms he experienced when he was sick.
● Believes in building your immune system, exercising and staying positive to overcome COVID-19.

January 26, 2021

English

Biography 1-3
- Family 22-23
- Friends 3, 7, 12, 15, 25
--- Jogging buddies 15

Communication
- News 6, 8, 27
- Social Media 8, 27

Daily Routine
- Entertainment 14
- Food 14, 23

Job 3-4, 19
- E-Commerce business owner 3-4, 12,
--- Business partners 13
- Event planning company 4, 11
--- Difficulty earning a livelihood doing virtual events 11
- Workplace restrictions 19


Malaysian Government
- Covid-response 7, 28-30
--- Economic boost 30
- Insufficient actions 7
--- Ministry of Health 7, 17, 19, 21, 23
- Lockdown 6, 8
- Sabah Elections 28
--- Politicians 28

Memory and trauma
- Bird flu 26
- Wuhan 8, 27

Mobility during pandemic 5-6
- Food delivery 23

Response measures for Covid-19
- Covid-19 victim 5-6, 11, 15-17, 21
--- Dengue was worse 18
- Self medicate with Panadol and Vitamins 18-19, 25
--- Self-quarantine 7, 17, 19, 21, 25
--- Underlying conditions 27
- Frontliners 7
- Masking up 19, 28
- Movement Control Order (MCO) 4, 6, 9, 12-13, 28
- MySejahtera app
- Quarantine Centers 25
- Social Distancing 19
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) 28
- Swab test 15, 19, 21, 25
--- Continual PCR positive result 21