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

The continued effects, the reverberation of something historic that creates tremors surpassing that of the original blast; where the sum is greater than its parts. They say the best art comes out of necessity, and I'm not saying that this pandemic was necessary but what I am saying is that creating goodness out of it is. Taking this tragedy at face value, no thank you would be one ugly mug of a murderer, but taking what we've learned though it and growing from it. The forest gains nutrients from the fallen trees, so let's take a note out of nature's book, and we shall honor the lives of those we've lost and grow towards the sun. This can tend to feel like it's a personal stance about how Covid has directly affected me, where that's the whole problem. We are supposed to do this together, if aliens came down and attacked us we would all be fighting as one race and a united world. Well this is a virus, alien to us and we are as divided as ever. Arguing about how a mask doesn't let us breathe, well how about the millions of people who can't breath because the air is too polluted or because they already died due to some people not wearing a mask. But I digress, for me this week that pandemic has limited my ability to go to the library to research some books that would cost way too much otherwise. Now this is a personal choice to stay home and stay safe and healthy, not to infect anyone else or myself. My method of research is less analog than it has ever been, my art more digital and my notes electrical. In the end, I have actually learned new ways to learn, which is a powerful opportunity and has advanced my adaptability and problem solving skills.