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

<strong> Is it Tuesday already? Time for the Pandemic Journal entry? Where did the week go?</strong> Time, which was moving so slowly before, seems to have picked up now. Probably because I am suddenly overloaded with work. <strong> Here in Maryland, the week of April 26, we had one of the lowest transmission rates in the country!</strong> 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, <strong> 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</strong>! 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. <strong> Meanwhile, India is imploding, as is Brazil. And the Philippines.</strong> I shudder to think what would have happened if Trump had been re-elected.<strong> It's not a coincidence that five of the worst countries with regard to Covid are run by narcissistic, self-serving authoritarian men</strong> (Put the UK in that group too). <strong> Biden gets very little credit, and individually the vaccine rollout has felt chaotic, but honestly, look at what his team has done.</strong> 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.<strong> Today I'm just not going to think about the Covidiots who refuse to get a shot.</strong>