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

<strong> I"m finding the return to "normal" hard.</strong> I never realized how much social anxiety I have about being left out of things until no on was doing anything and I felt so calm. And now that we're back into all these activities i"m feeling really anxious that I don't have a social group, that everyone is having fun without me.<strong> It's weird crossing state lines</strong> too--<strong> in some states everyone wears a mask inside (Maryland and DC) and then in others (Virginia) people stare at you funny if you wear a mask.</strong> It's all very disconcerting. Meanwhile,<strong> both my young adult-grown children are a mess. They both weathered the pandemic really well,</strong> staying home, social distancing, but<strong> now that the worst is over, they are both roiled with anxiety and depression</strong>. I really though we'd dodged the bullet with them. I feel really sad for them. But<strong> I guess this the after-effect of all that stress</strong>. Holding it in during the worst of it and only now feeling everything they held back. And<strong> I wish I could assure them that things will get better, that they have a positive future to look forward to. But with the looming climate crisis, what am I supposed to tell them?</strong> Trump is gone, but the remaining Republicans seem absolutely stuck on obstructing any kind of progress toward a healthier, more just society. All these great ideas the Democrats and Biden have about redistribution of wealth, it looks like they are. going to just stay that--ideas.