Tach's Oral History, Round 2

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Title

Tach's Oral History, Round 2

Synopsis

● Mrs. Tach, 41 years old, migrant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamese
● Ethnic minority: Khmer
● Lockdown for five months
● Compulsory mask wearing
● Only stayed at home, could not go to the market or other places
● Her sister had been hospitalized due to COVID-19
● A poor family

Date Created

February 25, 2022

Language of interview

Vietnamese

Index

Biography 1-8, 26-27, 29
- Household expenditure 37, 39
- Husband 36
- Living arrangements 2-3, 24-25, 28
- Mother’s funeral during the lockdown 9-11
- Religion 8, 22

Covid-19 waves
- 2020 versus 2021 9
- Delta 19
- Omicron 19

Daily life necessities
- Food 12, 17, 21, 24, 37, 39
- Masks 20

Financial impacts 14-16, 38, 40
- Borrowed money 33

Infection by Covid-19
- Sister 4, 20

Information sources about Covid-19
- Herbal facial steaming 23–24, 32, 39

Jobs
- Contract work 7, 25
- Husband’s business 13-14, 35
- Own job at eatery 8, 16, 29
-- Workplace response measures against Covid-19 19
- Selling fish 23, 32, 37

Post Covid-19 hopes 35

Psychological impacts 13, 15-17, 24, 40

Relationships 17-18

Response measures to Covid-19
- Assistance for Covid-19 relief 11-13, 17, 21, 28, 34, 37-38
- Consequences for breaking rules 11, 33, 38
- Cremation instead of burial 32
- Home treatment 34
- Lockdown 9-10, 14, 17-18, 21-24, 38, 40
- Mask mandate 10-11
- Reactions to response measures 33

Social media 32

Vaccines 28-31, 39

Item sets

Tach's Oral History, Round 2 Tach's Oral History, Round 2 (translation)