Brindha's Oral History
Item
Title
Brindha's Oral History
Synopsis
● Interviewee is 30 years old and an Indian Malaysian
● Dentist
● Impacts of COVID-19 on her work and pregnancy check-ups
● Financial and emotional challenges due to COVID-19
● Safety measures adopted at dental clinic
● Description of COVID-19 as something similar to the common flu, but worse
● Situation of commodity supply for dental clinic and Malaysia in general
● Daily routine during the lockdown
● Reflections on how she has coped with COVID-19 emotionally
● Reflections on the differences between the two periods of lockdown in Malaysia
● Thoughts on the punishments for breaking COVID-19 rules and differences in opinion on others on the punishments
● Community support in terms of bulk purchase of groceries and checking in on others virtually
● Thoughts on experiences of migrant workers such as construction workers and maids in Malaysia
● Reflections on Malaysian society’s response to the crisis
● Hopes for a post-COVID-19 world
● Dentist
● Impacts of COVID-19 on her work and pregnancy check-ups
● Financial and emotional challenges due to COVID-19
● Safety measures adopted at dental clinic
● Description of COVID-19 as something similar to the common flu, but worse
● Situation of commodity supply for dental clinic and Malaysia in general
● Daily routine during the lockdown
● Reflections on how she has coped with COVID-19 emotionally
● Reflections on the differences between the two periods of lockdown in Malaysia
● Thoughts on the punishments for breaking COVID-19 rules and differences in opinion on others on the punishments
● Community support in terms of bulk purchase of groceries and checking in on others virtually
● Thoughts on experiences of migrant workers such as construction workers and maids in Malaysia
● Reflections on Malaysian society’s response to the crisis
● Hopes for a post-COVID-19 world
Date Created
January 26, 2021
Language of interview
English
Index
Biography
- Family 3-4, 9, 11, 17, 21, 25
- Pregnant 3-4, 10, 12
--- Needing to push back appointments 3, 10
Communication
- Newspapers 7, 22
- Social Media 7, 23, 26
--- Checking in with friends globally 26
Daily Routine 10
- Commodities 14
--- Disposable gowns 14
--- Masks 14-15
- Food 10-11, 25
--- Bread wastage 16
--- Collective family purchase of food 25
Home Space 13
- No change at all 13
Job
- Clinic 2, 5, 11, 17, 25
--- Tough financial start 3-4, 25
- Dentist 3-5
--- Aerosol 3-4
--- Saliva 4
- Essential Workers 3, 19, 31
Malaysian Government
- Covid-response 19, 22-23, 28
--- Prime Minister’s speech 22
- Lockdown 3-4, 19
- Sabah Elections 20
Memory and trauma
- SARS 6
- Suicide 32
- Wuhan 6
Mobility during pandemic
- Food delivery 11
- Social gatherings 21-22, 32
- Tourism 32
Response measures for Covid-19
- Fines 21, 24
- Hygiene 5-6, 13, 18, 31
- Jail 21
- Masking up 6, 24, 31
- Movement Control Order (MCO)19, 30
--- Politicians 19- 20, 33-34
--- Police 19
--- Army 19
- PPE 4, 6, 18
- Quarantine Centers 9
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) 18-19, 22-23, 31
- Person Under Investigation 31
Support 25
- Business owners 28
- Migrant workers 28-30
- Family 3-4, 9, 11, 17, 21, 25
- Pregnant 3-4, 10, 12
--- Needing to push back appointments 3, 10
Communication
- Newspapers 7, 22
- Social Media 7, 23, 26
--- Checking in with friends globally 26
Daily Routine 10
- Commodities 14
--- Disposable gowns 14
--- Masks 14-15
- Food 10-11, 25
--- Bread wastage 16
--- Collective family purchase of food 25
Home Space 13
- No change at all 13
Job
- Clinic 2, 5, 11, 17, 25
--- Tough financial start 3-4, 25
- Dentist 3-5
--- Aerosol 3-4
--- Saliva 4
- Essential Workers 3, 19, 31
Malaysian Government
- Covid-response 19, 22-23, 28
--- Prime Minister’s speech 22
- Lockdown 3-4, 19
- Sabah Elections 20
Memory and trauma
- SARS 6
- Suicide 32
- Wuhan 6
Mobility during pandemic
- Food delivery 11
- Social gatherings 21-22, 32
- Tourism 32
Response measures for Covid-19
- Fines 21, 24
- Hygiene 5-6, 13, 18, 31
- Jail 21
- Masking up 6, 24, 31
- Movement Control Order (MCO)19, 30
--- Politicians 19- 20, 33-34
--- Police 19
--- Army 19
- PPE 4, 6, 18
- Quarantine Centers 9
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) 18-19, 22-23, 31
- Person Under Investigation 31
Support 25
- Business owners 28
- Migrant workers 28-30
