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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

Traveling during corona is a very Kafkaesque affair: S. is driving to Germany with her dad today, there are supposedly no restrictions for her to enter since France is a 'green' list country. But to come back, she has to have a PCR test because she won't have been double vaccinated yet for 14 days (she only got the second dose a week ago). But the PCR test has to have been done within at least 72 hours before entering the country, and it can take up to 48 hours to get results: so instead of risking getting it done in Germany and then not getting the results back in time, she went to get tested here in France yesterday (actually did get the results already this morning, super quick), so now she's got a test done in France which allows her to reenter France, even though the whole point is her being a risk since she's coming from Germany. It will be interesting to hear how things go at the border and what is being controlled and if there are differences between the countries.