{"id":9371,"date":"2025-11-03T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:26:37","slug":"what-we-must-confront-living-with-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/what-we-must-confront-living-with-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"What we must confront: Living with Long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first winter of the pandemic, I was in Shanghai visiting my family when the first news reports began circulating \u2014 something about a new pneumonia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55628488\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">a city in lockdown<\/a>. Within days, my family and I had boarded a flight to India, seeking temporary refuge. Three days before our flight back, India closed its borders. Airports <a href=\"https:\/\/aci.aero\/2021\/11\/01\/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-airport-business-and-the-path-to-recovery-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">emptied<\/a>. Around the world, our lives shrank to the size of our homes. For millions around the world, it meant grieving in isolation, watching suffering multiply. It meant exposure to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10324856\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">deep inequities<\/a> of our world, where access to safety, care, and health depended on privilege, geography, and luck.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, things seemed to return to normal. However, the virus, though silenced, persisted, reshaping bodies and altering lives long after the headlines moved elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>That collective amnesia of normalcy is what <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofvancouver.ca\/living-with-long-covid\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\"><em>Living With Long COVID<\/em><\/a>, a photography exhibition co-hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofvancouver.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">Museum of Vancouver<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/fhs.html\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">SFU\u2019s Faculty of Health Sciences<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phsa.ca\/our-services\/programs-services\/post-covid-19-care-network\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">Post-COVID Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network (PC-ICCN)<\/a>, attempts to break. On view at the museum from October&nbsp;4, 2025, to March&nbsp;22, 2026, this exhibition invites visitors into the often-overlooked world of the reality of COVID-19, asking us to confront what our systems and empathy have failed to care for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first winter of the pandemic, I was in Shanghai visiting my family when the first news reports began circulating \u2014 something about a new pneumonia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55628488\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">a city in lockdown<\/a>. Within days, my family and I had boarded a flight to India, seeking temporary refuge. Three days before our flight back, India closed its borders. Airports <a href=\"https:\/\/aci.aero\/2021\/11\/01\/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-airport-business-and-the-path-to-recovery-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">emptied<\/a>. Around the world, our lives shrank to the size of our homes. For millions around the world, it meant grieving in isolation, watching suffering multiply. It meant exposure to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10324856\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\">deep inequities<\/a> of our world, where access to safety, care, and health depended on privilege, geography, and luck.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, things seemed to return to normal. However, the virus, though silenced, persisted, reshaping bodies and altering lives long after the headlines moved elsewhere.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/what-we-must-confront-living-with-long-covid\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What we must confront: Living with Long COVID<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,96,18,391,11,1379,868,14,121],"class_list":["post-9371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-museum-of-vancouver","tag-pediatric-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9374,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}