I used to really enjoy watching TheStriveToFit's videos (Jamie, I think?) and went back to her channel a few months ago because she is doing her medical training in NYC, which was a COVID hotspot at the time. She has spoken about what it's like working in medicine under these conditions, when so many emergencies are people with COVID, and so many patients die on the daily.
The situation in the UK is also terrible, and I wondered whether Ali was lucky, in a way, to have taken his gap year before the start of the pandemic, and whether he may be postponing his career plans until after the pandemic? I wouldn't judge that decision negatively per se, NHS workers are working under poor conditions as it is, but surely re-entry into that system feels even less appealing at a time like this. At the same time, there isn't much else to do, influencers don't really have anywhere to go or anyone to talk to so they end up in this weird spiral where they make videos about being productive, but they are only productive because they make their productivity videos... also an exhausting situation, I guess.
I'd be interested to hear Ali talk about COVID more (I don't watch all of his videos but don't recall him addressing it a whole lot), especially from the perspective of a medical professional in GB...
