Michael's Oral History

● The interviewee is a 74 years old male, Chinese, Malaysian.
● He is single, a retiree and lives alone. He gets updates about COVID-19 from the news and exchanges information with friends when they meet at the lobby of his residence.
● He compares COVID-19 to the time when he helped a patient with AIDS. He said in both experiences, people were worried in the beginning, but life goes on after.
● He has kidney failure, so he is dependent on family members to transport him to the hospital and occasionally buy him food.
● He uses WhatsApp to get updates on government announcements and information about COVID-19.
● He is unable to trust the government and the way they handle the COVID-19 situation in Malaysia. He also believes that the declaration on the state of emergency in Malaysia is politically motivated.

January 29, 2021

English

Biography 1-2
- Bachelor 3, 9, 12
- Family 7, 16, 20
- Friends 3-5, 8, 13, 20

Communication
- News 4, 12, 15
- Social Media 13
- Technology 12-14

Community Support
- NGO 11

Daily Routine
- Commodities 16
- Food 6-9, 16
--- Neighbourly sharing 16
- Suffering from kidney failure 6
--- Dialysis 6-7
--- Hospital patient 7, 17
--- Pharmacy 7

Job
- Former Mechanical Engineer 2
- Retiree 2

Malaysian Government
- Covid-response 14, 20
- Emergency 15
- Lockdown 5, 8-9

Memory and trauma
- AIDS 5, 10
- SARS 10

Mobility during pandemic 3
- Food delivery 3
- Travel 2, 4

Response measures for Covid-19
- Danger of Covid-19 3-4, 16-19
- Fines 14
- Hygienic practices 5, 10, 19
- Masking up 5 -6, 8, 12, 14, 18-20
- Movement Control Order (MCO) 14-15
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) 12, 14, 19-20
- Vaccine 19