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

I sit on the sidelines of this pandemic. 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. 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. Let them protest. I am not personally created to march the streets or engage in public, physical demands; preferring to fight for justice using introverted means, educating myself and engaging anonymously online. 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). 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. ... 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 ...