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Here's something I posted. And someone added that another day this week had enough deaths to be on the list.
December 12, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
As we are entering the ninth month of the pandemic here in Europe, I would like to look back. Sars-Cov2 has started affecting me personally in February. Disruptions in the supply chain of face masks used at my workplace forced us to stop seeing patients in mid-February. This was a big blow to my postgraduate program since I had already gotten flack and blocked from seeing patients for three months in 2019. We had to close the University from March to May during the first wave of the pandemic. Those were difficult months for me. I am someone who is used to keeping busy in order to help me with my mental health. Summer brought some better days and made us able to see friends. The constant stress and the mounting death toll around the world have made keeping up with the information a complete nightmare. Experts feel like they are too scared to utter the words "we don't know". We humans have been too terrified to hear them anyway. It was clear to me in September that a second wave is on the way. I found the month of September and October very difficult. Social media and news have made me tired and I have run out of outrage about the state of the pandemic and our way of organizing the human populations. I have gone back to a full-time work mode last month of November. It's helping me keeping busy but it also means that I come in contact with a lot more people and taking more risks. I don't like it but I have no choice. There is a lot I want to say but I guess I will have time. I am still traveling between the two cities where I work and live which are Paris and Amsterdam. The differences are interesting and very telling. I will try to talk about it soon.
December 12, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
My mother went into a nursing home right when the pandemic started and it's been so challenging trying to see her. In the beginning, no visits. Then over the summer, window visits. Then, in the fall, when her facility got things under control finally, outdoor visits. For about a week in November we then had indoor visits but then someone in her facility tested positive, so it's back to outdoor visits. On Monday I went to see her. It was REALLY cold. This is how I dressed. This is how I have to suit up to protect myself from the cold and my mother from me. This is what life is like the second week of December, 2020 as we are drowning in what they are euphemistically calling a second wave. Let's be honest and call it what is is: a fucking tsunami. For the record, for all you future historians studying this archive when those of writing this are all dead (Hopefully of old age and not covid) let's be clear: IT DIDN"T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. New record deaths--Three thousand just today. And we've still got months and months to go. No national mask mandate. No national movement restrictions. Hospitals rationing medicine. People getting sent home to die. All because we have a fuckwad of a president who is more concerned about overturning an election HE LOST, rather than governing and helping people. Right now all we can do is go day by day and hope that when Biden takes office he can turn this thing around.
December 12, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
12/12/20 Usually Chanukah is all about get togethers with friends at our house or their houses. Big annual parties, community celebrations. Shipment of presents — two kids x eight days each — that my mom brings along when they visit for Thanksgiving and leaves with us, squirreled away in a closet, until the appropriate moment. Chanukah is not a big holiday, despite the bullshit attempts at parallels In media and popular culture, and I never really have shopped for the kids. Just let my mom do one token gift a night, more or less, and that’s it. This year, of course, we’re doing it differently. No community gatherings at all. No latke and dessert gatherings at friends’ houses to light the candles, and no one at ours. No parties. But we did make a ton of latkes last weekend and have been eating them all week, accompanied by the usual disagreements: Applesauce AND sour cream? Just applesauce? Sour cream only? Or, the genuinely contentious question: salt or sugar? (My family has a salt wing and a sugar wing, so I can appreciate both, but would say I’m planted squarely in the sugar wing!) Presents situation was different too. Without my mom’s careful planning, preparation, wrapping, and delivery, I had to pull something together myself. I’ve spoken with friends and other parts of the country in the past few weeks who won’t set foot in any stores unless absolutely necessary, but I’ve been to Marshall’s a bunch of times. One hour at Marshall’s, $200 later, and I had enough silly little gifts (and wrapping paper) to make it through the holiday: Kids robes, superhero slippers, toy dinosaurs, a set with a ton of tiny nail polish colors, etc. We’re managing this one just fine. And I’m still ready for more latkes.
December 13, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Praise the Lord, we have a vaccine! We have lots to do to finalize our plans for vaccination clinics, but it will come together. I'm glad to be a part of the effort to bring this virus to its knees. History in the making...I've lost count of how many times I've said that phrase this year.
December 13, 2020
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Do you feel like your life is going well right now? Has the pandemic changed this? If so, tell us about it.
In some ways my life is going better than it was before the pandemic--in terms of work and career goals, that is. I've been lucky to start new work that is meaningful and fulfilling and to connect with great people even if it's not in person. Perhaps that's also due to the pandemic because people have a different feeling now towards everyone, it's easier to get close to people more quickly over Skype. Everyone is glad to have that connection at least. Teaching online feels ever more like therapy to my adult students--but I'm happy to be there for them. Sometimes I'm sure I'm easy for them to open up to because I'm in that liminal position of fulfilling a proper role in their lives but I'm also a stranger whom they'll never meet--it helps me put my own problems and worries into perspective as I learn about their situation, so it helps to ground me. Sometimes I feel exhausted afterward, there are so many people hurting. But it's also inspiring and in some ways I feel much less isolated than I've ever been.
December 13, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I am so hopeful for this vaccine. Seeing people in the UK get vaccinated and our governor talk about the distribution plans gave me this wave of relief that I didn't expect. There's a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel. That being said, a lot is still up in the air. I don't know if or when I will have to relocate for work. I don't know when things will be reopened. I don't know when I will see my extended family members again. We canceled our in-person Christmas celebration this week which was disappointing, but worth it if it keeps people safe.
December 13, 2020
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What has changed most about the world since the pandemic began?
What I think has changed the most is people seeing the cracks in our systems. So many systemic issues have been brought to life in the US and abroad in the past months. It really shows that the way we have been handling things for years is not adequate anymore. I think there is no turning back from the radicalization that many people have gone through this year, something will change whether it is for better or worse.
December 13, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Coronavirus has made it more difficult for me and my wife to go to appointments for our baby. She is approaching 5 months and I wasn’t allowed in the hospital due to protocols because of the spike in cases. I really hope that we can make a difference with this vaccine. I hope people will take it more serious than they have been. People are dying every day. It’s disheartening knowing that 3000 people are dying each day. It feels like a dystopian alternative future. I wish T**** hadn’t politicized wearing a mask, and I wish it was taken serious from the jump. No one man can be held responsible for a pandemic, but you can be held accountable for your reaction.
December 14, 2020
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How is the pandemic affecting any children in your life? Give an example or two of some specific ways you've seen this happen.
My son has been much more clingy than usual since the pandemic hit. He is afraid of being alone and afraid of the dark. These are fears he has had in the past, but we had made progress in alleviating these fears. Now they are coming back. I think this is because he spends so much time with me and because of the stress and anxiety of living in a pandemic. I'm hoping this will work itself out when the pandemic ends.
December 14, 2020
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Piense en las personas más cercanas a usted. Cuéntenos como el coronavirus les ha impactado sus vidas y diario vivir.
Respecto a las personas cercanas a mi... Mi madre trabaja en un taller de costura. Las primeras semanas de la cuarentena le dijeron que no vaya a trabahar ya que era tiempo de cuarentena estricta. Luego permitieron que tanto ella como algunos compañeros vayan a trabajar, por menos horas y solo algunos días (por cada día iban trabajadores distintos). También fue dificil que le pagaran. Mi abuela no ha salido de su casa y pude verla luego de unos meses. Mi novio no salía de su casa pero si sus padres por sus trabajos, y tambien se cuidaban tanto como podían, también pude verlo luego de casi un mes. Recuerdo que cuando salí estabamos en fase 1 de cuarentena, pensé que estaría muy mal salir, pero en cuanto vi la calle con autos me tranquilice y supe que no era la única que salía de casa, fue raro pero tranquilizador.
December 14, 2020
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Does this time of the year feel different than it normally does, or different than it should? If so, give some examples of what feels different.
Yes it feels different. I know that it won’t be a lot of family together in one spot. I know we won’t be exchanging gifts like that. But it’s a sacrifice. I want everybody to be together for the next 50 Christmases. We just have to get past this one.
December 14, 2020
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¿De que manera el coronavirus le está afectando su vida en este momento? Cuéntenos sus experiencias, sensaciones/emociones, y pensamientos.
La navidad es una de mis épocas más importantes y favoritas del año. No importa cuanto tiempo pase, aún me emocionan los comerciales cuando promocionan los juguetes, haciéndome desear uno de todas formas. Los colores de las luces navideñas cuando salgo a ver las casas de mis vecinos y el olor característico que emana del viento exterior. Este año ha sido tan extraño y duro pero eso no impedirá que disfrute estas fechas. Aún no se que sucederá el 25 de diciembre, si la pasaré sola o, como siempre, en compañía de mi familia, lo único que se es que mi espíritu navideño aún no ha muerto.
December 14, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I live with my entire family. What surprises me is that I am still lonely. I underestimated the connection of community - the people I have known for years from casual contact in my daily life.
December 14, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Right now my mom has lost a lot of hours at work and is struggling to buy food and pay bills. I am also not able to buy food or pay bills until I find another job and so I'm trying to see if my university could help me or my family in any way. I feel extremely depressed not being able to see my family or friends and I'm paranoid of working in close proximity with others even with masks because I've had the virus before and had to be hospitalized.
December 15, 2020
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Has the pandemic disrupted your plans for the future in any major way? If so, talk about the most significant disruption(s).
I went crystal digging in Arkansas with my high school friend several years. We were unable to go this year because of the pandemic and risks associated with traveling. We probably won’t go this coming spring due to the pandemic. Crystal digging has been the only vacation for me, so I really miss it. The arts council I belong to normally has an annual beer and food tasting event that raises funds to have the Old Time Music Festival in June. The BrewFest and Old Time Festival were both canceled in 2020. We will not have BrewFest in March because of the pandemic. We hope to have a scaled back music festival of one day but are unsure if it will be allowed in June. I coordinate BrewFest, so I need to find another way to raise funds to keep the festival going. I would like to see my 89 year-old mother and family in another state, but no one is allowed to visit nursing home residents, and the counties where they reside are virus hotspots. These things don’t appear to be major but when you don’t have a large circle of family and friends, the little things are important.
December 15, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
There's so much we can't do right now because of COVID -- so many ways we're stuck. Sometimes, though, the inability to do stuff we want to do makes us pay attention to other things we wouldn't necessarily do otherwise, or notice otherwise. This is the sunset my family and I watched over the weekend after a long (and unseasonably warm) day of playing board games, zooming into the really moving bat mitzvah of a family friend in another time zone, going for a walk, and hanging out in the backyard doing yardwork. Snuggled with my kids in the hammock with songs from Hamilton and the new Mary Poppins playing and just soaked it in.
December 15, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Seeing the first trucks full of vaccine is a milestone and very welcome sight. Seeing the first nurse receive her vaccination = ditto. Hope - so needed so we can imagine the end of this pandemic. It will be a long time still but maybe late spring.
December 16, 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 just finished the first week of mourning my beloved aunt. Because of my disability I might not have been able to go to her funeral, which will now be held over Zoom. So, I'm grateful for that. I feel that everything is flat and sad. She was one of my most important supports and I still can't believe she's gone. I had two memorial gatherings for me this week where I got to say kaddish, the memorial prayer. I think more people attended because of its being over Zoom. A friend went to a Chanukah party that was a drive-in event and said she really enjoyed the way they did it, with Chanukah trivia (turn your right blinker on if this is true, left if false...) and streamed a concert for everyone. What a sweet way to handle gathering during the pandemic.
December 16, 2020
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Has the pandemic affected your ability to accomplish your life goals or plans in any way? If so, share some examples.
All I have wanted since I was furloughed from my retail job is to feel that I have a purpose. When working, I have a purpose, helping customers, my co-workers and following through on my responsibilities at the store. I have not worked since the last week of February and I am in awe of how much time has passed. I am lucky that my co-workers are an extension of my family and we are in touch and I have visited the store a few times to see those who are working. It is beyond difficult to feel one has no purpose. I take care of many aspects of our home, but I am no housewife! Making a nice dinner for my husband and daughter does not give me purpose, but I wish it did. Let these vaccines move forward and let this come to a place where we are all safer and I can regain what I define as my purpose, to return to work and feel some sort of normalcy once again.
December 16, 2020