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

The numbers keep going up in my state. I have a friend who is an administrator at our local hospital and she keeps going on the news to tell people how bad the situation is at the hospital. The nurses and doctors are burned out, many nurses have already quit because they don't want to deal with the Covid chaos anymore--particularly because so many of their patients now have refused to get the vaccine and are in active denial about Covid in general. The CDC is supposed to reverse course today and recommend even vaccinated people wear masks indoors. I've been going in to my office a couple of days a week and almost nobody else in my office wears masks. I'm hoping when I go back in later this week, I'll see more people wearing masks. My son is in daycare and can't get a vaccine yet. With so many people acting as though the pandemic is over and the numbers going up every week, I keep second guessing whether to keep my son in daycare. We kept him home for more than a year, and it took a significant toll on me, my son, and my husband. How do you weigh mental health against physical health? For the love of god, when will my son be able to get the vaccine so we can all feel just a little bit safe?