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

<strong>I sit on the sidelines of this pandemic.</strong> Passively observing. Watching news coverage, reading news coverage. Buying supplies at Costco. When the shelter-in-place orders arrived in late March 2020 I was nervous. The news coverage of cable news networks fueling this anxiety of apocalyptic times to come. <strong>Now a few months into the pandemic on U.S. soil without structural integrity of addressing the virus by our nation's highest administration I am doubly traumatized.</strong> Let them protest. <strong>I am not personally created to march the streets</strong> or engage in public, physical demands; preferring to fight for justice using introverted means, educating myself and engaging anonymously online. <strong>That is what brought me to the Pandemic Journaling Project, to begin with. I am here, not to cower in anonymity, but to rise up in the way that allows me to do so safely (emotionally and personally).</strong> Persons who have been leaving their homes to risk exposure to the deadliest virus our society has encountered in a century for an end to racial and social inequality are cut from a different cloth than I. I admire them. ... <strong>The pandemic has given me the breathing space to remove myself from harmful spaces and faces and given me an opportunity to clear my head ...</strong>