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

This week, the pandemic continues to rage in the state where I live. Vaccinations have begun, but the rollout has become a brunt of jokes at the national level. There is a free-for-all for people over 65, and nothing for people under 65, unless they are designated health care workers. Still, this week, for the first time, I took a little breath of relief. A new President has been inaugurated, and he and his team are starting to make substantive changes in the way the country will handle the pandemic going forward. There are new challenges, vaccine supply and worrying new virus variants, and yet it now feels like we might have a fighting chance. I'm sure everything will continue to look worse for a while, but there is hope. After a long time, my family visited the university campus for a long walk with masks on and my daughter went for a bike ride there. It was a great change of pace for us all.