“I Mean, if a Healthy Body Gets Close to a Sick Body, Then It Will Get Sick Too, I Think” – Children’s Meaning-Making of COVID-19 in the Final Stage of the Pandemic
This article aims to investigate how children make meaning of events that both rapidly and extensively affect society and the lives of the children themselves, in the case of this study, the spread of Covid-19. The study material consists of group interviews involving 20 children aged four to six. The results of the study demonstrate that children make meaning of Covid-19 by focusing on the relationship between the disease and the body. Four categories of meaning-making were identified: (1) the body’s proximity to and distance from other bodies, (2) physical symptoms as central, (3) the body as a carrier of infection, and (4) germs on andin the body.