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Think about the people closest to you. Tell us about how the coronavirus has affected them, and their life.

My partner's dad is in the hospital. He might not live much longer. It's not COVID. He's 88 years old and the journey over the rainbow is likely well underway. Losing a parent or helping a parent die is never easy. But not being able to touch him is cruel. Only seeing him on the other side of a screen --- a man who spent most of his life without a telephone, much less a computer or iPad --- makes these encounters especially awkward. She's happy to see him but he looks odd, probably because he stares into the screen and often I think his eyes are glazing but I'm told he's just trying to make sense of this new technology. Talking into a screen has never been his thing. How can it suddenly make sense to a man alone on his death bed?