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

With covid cases increasing rapidly in my city, I have felt somewhat discouraged and a bit depressed. Feels like we are never, in my lifetime, going to recover from this. I don't mind wearing a mask -- and I am starting to do so every time I leave my apartment -- but I don't like feeling fearful to even go anywhere. A close friend, whom I got vaccinated with back in March, got covid recently. I thought she was being pretty careful but I think a lot of us stopped wearing our masks sometimes because we were under the impression that the vaccine would protect us. I know it's not 100% but it still offers a great deal of protection. It's all these variants that keep developing among the unvaccinated -- so scary. I wish more people would see the vaccines as an important step in controlling the virus.