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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
"... I'm tired. It's been more than two months of being home and I am so tired. ... I am the hunter/gatherer for all household provisions, the bill payer, the chef, the best friend to my 13 year old daughter, the therapist for my son, and the sounding board for my husband, I am the end-all-be-all for everyone and I am tapped out. ..."
June 29, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
"... You know, I’m anxious. Professionally, my work insists I constantly puzzle through scenarios, lead solutions, repeat. I have never had to focus on one challenge 24/7 for months on end. It’s an unrelenting state of mind. And it can be tiring. I am also grateful. I will never again have this time with my family. I cherish the informal interaction, the reduction of chores, making family dinners, working out regularly, realizing, honestly, how much money and time I waste in ‘normal’ life. I will miss a return to normal that takes away the simplicity of this time. ..."
June 29, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
"... As I write this my dad is currently having open heart surgery ... for an aneurysm removal. I have not hugged him since February and have seen him only once since February on Mother's Day when we visited with my parents outdoors as we social distanced and all wore masks. I was relieved when his surgery that was originally scheduled for March was postponed. Today I am less afraid of the surgery and more fearful of the recovery and the virus. He is in the hospital for five days...will he contract it there? ... Social distancing has been fine until last night when I was thinking about the possibility that my Facetime call might be the last time I see him. I want to feel his big burly body around me. I need my dad hug. ..."
June 29, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
"... Because of covid, everything is harder. Duh. But it is much harder than I thought it would be when I flew home from college in the middle of March. At the end of April, my dad was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. He has been in the hospital and rehab ever since. ... I cannot see him in person because of restrictions upon visiting due to covid, and because of how traumatic the injury was, talking to him over facetime is difficult. ... What makes this even harder is that my younger brother has developmental and speech delays, along with autism and bipolar syndrome ... And now I fear waking up everyday because of him. ... my sisters and I have to watch him often, and that is incredibly draining mentally, emotionally, and physically. ... there are physical altercations that occur almost every time we watch him. I really miss my dad. ... I miss my friends at school. I miss my boyfriend. I miss the luxury and privilege I had of escaping this household whenever I was at school a thousand miles away. ... yet I am still privileged in my white body. And I will continue to fight in anyway possible to unfuck it all, even if these terrible pains tear apart my mind each day. Because I hate them! The politicians, the police, the institutions. And covid has only intensified these egregious and sinful things! ..."
June 29, 2020
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Have people in your community supported one another during the pandemic? Talk about why or why not, and maybe give some examples.
"... I once saw a bag of free masks hanging on a fence post with a note that said anyone was welcome to take a mask if she needed one. I have heard of people filling their small library houses (like the one pictured) with canned food and toilet paper rolls free for anyone who might need something. I have not been so lucky to have seen an example of this in person. ..."
June 29, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
We are going to be in this thing for a really long time because people either are not taking it seriously or not fully understanding it. That, and we have no cure. I am in a really safe, comfortable place with a husband and dog I love. My kids and their spouses are nearby. Everyone is OK. We are good. But we are trapped just like everyone else. Wondering. When will this end? Will this end? Or are we in a dystopian movie where the precursor is not a nuclear war, but just years of loneliness and decay?
June 29, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I looooooove quarantine life. I always hated going to the office and I love the freedom of working at home in my pijamas in my bed with coffee by my side. Working at my own pace without my boss and colleagues breathing down my neck all day interrupting my thoughts. I love the freedom of taking a break in the afternoon and going for a walk in the park-- seeing the flowers and the clean blue sky empty of pollution and the quiet of the city which is so new to me now that everyone is locked at home. I'm sad that we are starting to reopen. I don't want to lose this feeling of peace and tranquility that I gained during the last few months. I dread going back to the noise and hustle and bustle where you can't even hear yourself think anymore.
June 30, 2020
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Think about the people closest to you. Tell us about how the coronavirus has affected them, and their life.
Coronavirus has affected everyone in my family to one extent or another. My father's mother passed away in late March (not COVID related), and we were unable to have a funeral for her. That has really negatively affected my grandfather, who is in his early 90s and has to live alone knowing his wife was not properly laid to rest. My dad has been compartmentalizing that, I know. Pushing it away because there's nothing that can be done now. He has also had to start working from home, which he's actually really good at and it keeps him busy. But I know that getting away from the house is good for anyone's moral, and being home all day definitely raises the tensions among us all. My mother's father had an accident while wood-working in his garage and had to have surgery on his hand. We aren't able to go visit with them like we want to because my grandparents are especially strict with the restrictions due to my grandpa's various health ailments. Both my sister and I were laid off from our jobs, my sister's college graduation ceremony got canceled, school for the second semester this year went online completely. My partner decided to move from his apartment back home in Virginia because he has also been working online. He seems to be doing well, and loves to be surrounded by his family when he gets the chance, but as a Black man he is definitely having an increasingly hard time dealing with the emotional labor around the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and now Rayshard Brooks. He's been vocal and participated in protests, and is also concerned about catching coronvirus because he has bad asthma. There are so many people who are having a harder time than I am, and all I can do is be thankful and use the privilege that I have right now to advocate for others that do not have that same kind of privilege and try to make the world a better place for all of us.
June 30, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
There is no huge change for me. I tend to live a pretty isolated life. I have had the opportunity to do more work from home and develop an online service teaching people about mental health. With some clubs going online I've actually had more comfortable contact with other people than usual.
June 30, 2020
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Many of us have experienced restrictions on movement and social contact during the pandemic. Talk about any restrictions that have especially affected you.
I'm autistic. For me this period of time has been the opposite to the experience of many. The restrictions are actually freeing. I'm able to make choices that would otherwise be seen as socially negative. Shopping is less of a challenging experience and I've been able to fully enjoy book club meetings now that they are online.
June 30, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Curiously, the pandemic has pointed out more than anything my privilege. For the first 6 weeks I worked on my property and did the things I did not have time for during my regular life. I do appreciate this as being a singular time. I have a freedom that won’t happen again - even retired (and I am half a decade from that) I won’t be able to craft my own schedule like this. In many ways I am getting increasingly anxious - I don’t know how I will go back to the way they nags were - except when I am forced into the world I like tha way things are.
June 30, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
The pandemic is this weird thing. It’s abstract and distant and then suddenly very real. My uncles in-laws all got the disease early on, in March. My aunt’s mother died, her siblings were all very seriously ill. That was when the virus suddenly felt very real. And then life moved on, the news moved on. Things started to open up and the world became a little less careful, a little less afraid.. or just tired of it all. Anyways there are days when I forget it’s even happening. But then, my grandfathers sister died from COVID and then...bam. It’s suddenly real again. I haven’t left the house really since mid March. We love on four acres of wooded farm land with chickens and goats. It is the ideal place to hide your family away in a pandemic. To be honest, this is why we moved here... not because of the pandemic but because we wanted to be ready for the shit storm that was sure to happen when climate change hit. We wanted to build a resilient life and have the resources to be self sufficient should the need arise. We moved here last year, I had no idea it would be this soon. ... How do we protect ourselves? How do we safely renter the world? There has been a lot of guidance about how businesses should reopen, how schools and things should open. But there hasn’t been much directive for how we, normal people, should now live in and with this virus. I wish we had more guidance.
June 30, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I sit on the sidelines of this pandemic. Passively observing. Watching news coverage, reading news coverage. Buying supplies at Costco. When the shelter-in-place orders arrived in late March 2020 I was nervous. The news coverage of cable news networks fueling this anxiety of apocalyptic times to come. Now a few months into the pandemic on U.S. soil without structural integrity of addressing the virus by our nation's highest administration I am doubly traumatized. Let them protest. I am not personally created to march the streets or engage in public, physical demands; preferring to fight for justice using introverted means, educating myself and engaging anonymously online. That is what brought me to the Pandemic Journaling Project, to begin with. I am here, not to cower in anonymity, but to rise up in the way that allows me to do so safely (emotionally and personally). Persons who have been leaving their homes to risk exposure to the deadliest virus our society has encountered in a century for an end to racial and social inequality are cut from a different cloth than I. I admire them. ... The pandemic has given me the breathing space to remove myself from harmful spaces and faces and given me an opportunity to clear my head ...
June 30, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I have wanted to keep a journal through these weeks and months. I started but quickly my energy flagged. I am hoping that this new opportunity will reenergize my determination to write. Because I live in a retirement residence which has a nursing home attached, we are particularly vulnerable to the virus, and our restrictions have been quite severe. Even so, we have had an outbreak and a number of virus deaths among our most vulnerable residents. We are currently virus free, but are limited to short walks in the neighborhood, and social distancing at all times, wearing masks, and eating and exercising in our own units. Frustrations abound, but I am eternally grateful for phone contacts, Zoom visits and events, and outdoor visits with friends in the building. I am yet to be able to visit other friends or family, and am anxious to know when I will be able to travel to see any of my children - all of whom live far away. The summer stretching out ahead is looking pretty bleak at the moment. But I am determined to not let it get me down.
June 30, 2020
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Many of us have experienced restrictions on movement and social contact during the pandemic. Talk about any restrictions that have especially affected you.
So far, I’m the designated family “forager”. Being able to go out in public through the entire pandemic so far has shown me how many people are starting to slack off on wearing masks and maintaining social distancing. I have been having virtual doctor appointments. Better than nothing, but I do need to get back is to see multiple healthcare providers. My spouse lost her older sister to Covid-19. She did have several pre-existing conditions and live in one of the “hotspot” cities. I truly believe that the pandemic is going to have an increase in patients and will overload more regions around the world.
June 30, 2020
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Many of us have experienced restrictions on movement and social contact during the pandemic. Talk about any restrictions that have especially affected you.
June 30, 2020
June 30, 2020
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Have people in your community supported one another during the pandemic? Talk about why or why not, and maybe give some examples.
This piece is made of many different parts of other collages coming together to create a new one. I was thinking of the idea of growth and resilience amidst the unknown flow and spread of covid19.
June 30, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
"... I’m so tired. Existentially exhausted. The fear of COVID-19. The fear of being Black in America. Our cities are burning. We can’t breathe. ..."
June 30, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
"... It was my daughter’s last week of school. It’s a tradition to have a water balloon toss on Field Day but as schools are not open we had one in the backyard with three other friends. I initially thought I would make my daughter were gloves but then I didn’t. So they did it. We had hand sanitizer and all of that. But this photo of the water balloons makes me think of all of the parents trying to normalize a very abnormal time. I love that it represents that effort but I also see potential COVID on every balloon! ..."
June 30, 2020
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Some people are feeling intense feelings right now as a result of the pandemic. Is anything making you especially sad, angry, or hopeful right now? If so, what's on your mind?
"... My skin is not a crime. Recently, there's been numerous accounts of police brutality. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Get your knee off my neck. As an African American individual, I am so sick and tired of watching my people die. I am so disgusted by the behavior of white supremacists and uneducated law enforcement. Stop killing my people. ... Say their names. ... Honestly, it's bittersweet seeing non-bipoc (black indigenous people of color) finally rise to the podium. ... Why did it take this long for the non-bipoc population to speak up? All of a sudden, because we're homebound during a pandemic, white people suddenly have nothing better to do than make #BlackLivesMatter a trend. ... Of course, I appreciate the effort white people are making to help. I appreciate them rising up and educating themselves. ... Do Better. ... No justice, no peace. ..."
June 30, 2020