Spanning Pandemic Pandect – Caring, Compassion, and Crises Amidst COVID-19

David Carlgren's insider narrative documents in graphic details the lived experiences of his family and himself, and as importantly, presents the positive and negative experiences of a few colleagues in Wuhan, China during the pandemic. The author discusses issues of stress, tolerance, friendship, compassion and survival. With deep sensitivity David Carlgren explains: firstly, the coping and survival strategies adopted by his family. Secondly, a colleague's compassionate neighbours who deliberately intervened and ameliorated her situation. Thirdly, another colleague's stresses at school when he was forced to set up and take down, every day, the online teaching-learning technology, as well as to scan and upload the learning materials for a whole floor of classes. Fourthly was Carlgran's explicit description of the types and impacts of the stresses encountered by a third colleague.