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

<strong> 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.</strong> Losing a parent or helping a parent die is never easy. But<strong> not being able to touch him is cruel.</strong> <strong> 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.</strong> 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. <strong> Talking into a screen has never been his thing. How can it suddenly make sense to a man alone on his death bed?</strong>