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

<strong> I have been texting my sister in Pennsylania, 3500 miles away,</strong> because we have no other means of communication.<strong> She is in shared accommodation, ill with Covid, and struggling with a landlord who is trying (illegally) to evict her, and housemates who (understandably) don't want to share a bathroom or kitchen with her, but who refuse to practice social distancing</strong> among themselves and others. I am nothing more than a sounding board for my sister's troubles, as there is nothing I can do to help her other than offer my sympathy. <strong> Meanwhile, here in Scotland, there is about 6 hours of daylight, none of which includes sunshine. it is grim.</strong> Of course I know it is grimmer in other places. It doesn't actually help, knowing that there are people worse off than you, when you are feeling blue; it just makes you feel selfish and ungrateful, which leads to further misery for being such a self-centred human being. <strong> Still - trying to put up Christmas decorations and get work done and not drag my family down with me.</strong> There is not a darn thing to write in this journal because nothing is happening in my life.