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

<strong> 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.</strong> 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. <strong> The CDC is supposed to reverse course today and recommend even vaccinated people wear masks indoors</strong>. 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. <strong> 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</strong>. 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? <strong> 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?</strong>