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

<strong> As we are entering the ninth month of the pandemic here in Europe, I would like to look back.</strong> Sars-Cov2 has started affecting me personally in February.<strong> Disruptions in the supply chain of face masks used at my workplace forced us to stop seeing patients in mid-February. This was a big blow to my postgraduate program</strong> since I had already gotten flack and blocked from seeing patients for three months in 2019. <strong> We had to close the University from March to May</strong> during the first wave of the pandemic. Those were difficult months for me. I am someone who is used to keeping busy in order to help me with my mental health. Summer brought some better days and made us able to see friends.<strong> The constant stress and the mounting death toll around the world have made keeping up with the information a complete nightmare.</strong> Experts feel like they are too scared to utter the words "we don't know". We humans have been too terrified to hear them anyway.<strong> It was clear to me in September that a second wave is on the way.</strong> I found the month of September and October very difficult. Social media and news have made me tired and I have run out of outrage about the state of the pandemic and our way of organizing the human populations.<strong> I have gone back to a full-time work mode</strong> last month of November. It's helping me keeping busy but it also means that I come in contact with a lot more people and taking more risks.<strong> I don't like it but I have no choice.</strong> There is a lot I want to say but I guess I will have time.<strong> I am still traveling between the two cities where I work and live which are Paris and Amsterdam. The differences are interesting and very telling. I will try to talk about it soon.</strong>