How has COVID-19″ affected your life?”, your interviewee is probably going to stare blankly for a while and then do their best to try and come up with something to tell you. That question is broad that it would be hard to even know where to begin.
It’s your job as the interviewer to guide the interviewee’s thought process and help them make sense of their experiences. So, you might ask something like “Since the pandemic started, what do you do for fun?” You could follow up with a question like, “How is that different from before the pandemic started?”