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

<strong> E. is prepping for Air Guard activation at a COVID vaccination command center out of state. He’ll be gone for about 10 weeks</strong> if all goes well. If all goes how it’s been going so far, then who knows.<strong> I’m not worried about taking care of [our daughter] by myself.</strong> Truthfully we are lucky to have a small but very supportive bubble to help us.<strong> We’ve been explaining [...] that daddy has to go away to help people and he’ll be back. Hopefully we’ll be able to establish a FaceTime schedule</strong> that we can all look forward to. <strong> His parents in New Jersey got notice that they’ve been registered for their vaccine groups</strong>, 1b and 1a. <strong> No word from my folks in Missouri</strong> yet but<strong> different state, different processes.</strong> If all the states go to age 65+ then hopefully all of our parents will be vaccinated in the near future. This will be a huge relief, although I am worried about what will happen if they don’t get the second doses in there recommended 3 or 4 weeks. Eric says that for most vaccines it doesn’t matter if you push out the booster, but these are totally new vaccines and I worry what if all these people - our folks included- end up not properly protected?<strong> What if a ton of people decide not to come back at all for their second dose and we’ve effectively wasted their first doses</strong> that could have gone to someone who would have completed the regimen? Although I guess that’s always a possibility anyway.