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

Is it Tuesday already? Time for the Pandemic Journal entry? Where did the week go? Time, which was moving so slowly before, seems to have picked up now. Probably because I am suddenly overloaded with work. Here in Maryland, the week of April 26, we had one of the lowest transmission rates in the country! That's good news and I'm trying to hang on to that. Hard to say why--could be that the British variant never made it here, or people mask here more, or we got out ahead of it with the vaccines. Who knows? Anyway, things feel a little safer, and then today, the CDC said those of us who are fully vaccinated can take our masks off outside in small groups. Yay! I'd been noticing a lot of people not masking, and it's hard not to worry, but something like 50% of my county has had at least one shot so we are getting there. it's nice to think that at least some communities will reach something close to herd immunity. Meanwhile, India is imploding, as is Brazil. And the Philippines. I shudder to think what would have happened if Trump had been re-elected. It's not a coincidence that five of the worst countries with regard to Covid are run by narcissistic, self-serving authoritarian men (Put the UK in that group too). Biden gets very little credit, and individually the vaccine rollout has felt chaotic, but honestly, look at what his team has done. We now have one of the fastest vaccine programs in the world, coming off the heels of one of the worst Covid mitigation measures. For this I am happy. Today I'm just not going to think about the Covidiots who refuse to get a shot.