CONCEPT NOTE:

            Contact tracing is the biggest challenge when preventing the spread of Covid-19 and finding the source can always cause so much anxiety to those affected. In some ways, it feels like a witch hunt. Those that had no intention of causing harm end up having to reveal so much of their private lives and activities, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes under duress. Policing normal human movement seems too normal in today’s new-normal. Unintended discrimination and endless blaming are always expected in the undertaking of finding the source and preventing further infection to others. But we have also been too complacent with our own safety and too impatient from being away from others that the risk of going outside and getting infected or infecting others feels like an avoidable accident. Some people are just too dismissive of the fact that because the virus is not visually perceptible, it’s not immediately detectible in a person.

           

            For this plate, I intend to express the pressures experienced as a patient under investigation (PUI) where despite all precautions and safety measures on the end of one person, there are still others who consciously risk spreading or contracting the virus out of gravely invalid reasons.