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

I'm joining this project fairly late (Feb. 28, 2021).<strong> My wife and I began quarantining in mid-March 2020,</strong> and we worked from home thereafter.<strong> I got into the habit of taking photos of pandemic-related scenes</strong> on our daily walks near our home in downtown Albany, NY. Then,<strong> in the summer, I included photos related to Black Lives Matter and other political issues.</strong> I'm grateful for the chance to share these photos. I'm a historian at SUNY Albany and I think this project will be very important for later researchers. This is a photo from early May 2020. It shows the front stoop of a downtown Albany rowhouse.<strong> One of the striking things for me, early in the pandemic, was the strong sense of solidarity and encouragement many people displayed.</strong> At the same time when people had to isolate from each other.<strong> Nearly a year into the pandemic, some of that solidarity and encouragement remain, but a lot of people are also getting tired</strong> of restrictions like masking.