Article content After a year of living with COVID-19, Postmedia is taking an in-depth look at the significant social, institutional and economic issues the pandemic has brought to light in Canada — and more importantly, how we can finally begin to solve them. You can find our complete coverage here. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or How 14 months of COVID-19 and lockdowns impacted the arts in Canada Back to video After four-and-a-half months at home in lockdown, guitarist Brandon Scott began working at a COVID testing site in Vancouver. His job was site navigator, which basically meant he would screen people coming in. He made sure they had their health cards and asked about symptoms. He got the job — he calls it a “gig” — through a friend who works at Fraser Health Authority. Partly it was for the money, of course. He was receiving CERB benefits but as the summer came to an end he wasn’t sure how long it would last. But it was also just to stay active. As a full-time musician, those four and a half months had been the longest he had stayed home in more than a decade. Non-stop touring has been his life as the guitarist for Vancouver-based road warriors Yukon Blonde. Aside from a short breather in 2013, the band had been on that indie-band treadmill since 2010: recording six albums, criss-crossing Canada and the U.S., making jaunts into Europe and Japan. All of that came to an abrupt, crashing halt in mid-March of 2020.