Share Your Pandemic Story

Share Your Pandemic Story was an invitation and an opportunity for Town of Warwick residents to share their personal experiences of the global coronavirus pandemic.  We all want to hear each other’s stories. Sharing our experiences - of loss, resilience, isolation, and connection – can offer an opportunity for healing.

Here are some stories that were shared with We the People Warwick in 2022:

COVID: Face-to-Face

Enduring the New Abnormal

Looking at Bookshelves

Pandemic Story

Those We Cannot See

The global coronavirus pandemic and the changes in our lives that ensued have enormously impacted our mental health. Stress about contracting the virus coupled with job changes or losses, varying levels of isolation, as well as the devastating grief of losing loved ones due to Covid-19 are just a few ways the pandemic has affected and continues to affect mental health. Rates of depression, anxiety, suicide, and overdose have increased across the U.S. since 2020 and continue to rise. Conversely, during the pandemic, many people experienced situations that changed their lives for the better or helped them create better connections with people in their lives - or simply allowed them to slow down.

The pandemic was and is a global trauma that has changed us as a community, and we asked Town of Warwick residents to share their experiences – the good, the bad, the ugly, the triumphant - stories of loss, resilience, isolation, connection – of whatever they personally experienced during the pandemic. In coming together as a community to share our stories, we learn that we are not alone in our experiences. We can find connections and begin to heal.