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

My sister was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer 3 months in to the pandemic. My father-in-law died and mother-in-law quickly followed by dying of Covid 3 months later. No funerals. These have been very hard on my two kids (23 and 27). The 27-year old is in med-school and spent 6 months living with me last year and doing her rotations on-line. The other was a barrista in Brooklyn at some hipster cafe where the owner didn’t put up plexiglass shields because “he has an aesthetic Mom”. “How about a coffin? Ya think he’ll like that aesthetic?” She just had to deal with it because she needed to live and that’s what was available. Both of them have had increasing anxiety and depression, and, yet continue marching through their lives like so many other young people whose plans were derailed.