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Talk about how the pandemic has affected your closest relationships.
Covid lockdown has put more pressure on my husband to be my social group. Would normally been traveling to see my grandkids this time of year. All my volunteer jobs still on hold. Thinking at least we are not in a war zone and this won't last forever.
March 10, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Only one thought this week: Why is it so hard to find a vaccination? So many people are getting vaccinated and we are having no luck finding anything. And why is the media saying "nobody will want the J&J vaccine because of the lower percentage of effectiveness." Seriously? It's one shot and done. Fewer side effects. I want that shot! We'll just keep plugging away. I can at least buy a lottery ticket for my chance to win. I can't even find a vaccine.
March 10, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I heard from members of my family in 3 different states who were able to get their vaccines. I'm SO relieved for my family, but I can't helping being envious. We have a family wedding in early May, and I will cry buckets if I can't be there while so many other family members are. I also looked at the written "pandemic journal" that I started last March. My first journal entry spoke of the despair of going into lockdown for 4-6 weeks. I actually laughed when I read it. :-)
March 10, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I'm spent. Articles say that we're all running out of reserves and we need to replenish them. It's not working for me for the past few weeks. I can't fill my reserves. I'm exhausted with worry for the world and anger at the anti-maskers. Humans are terrible.
March 10, 2021
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Usted, o alguien cercano a usted, ha tenido COVID-19? Si es así, hable de esa experiencia.
MI EXPERIENCIA CUANDO ME CONTAGIÉ DE COVID Hola, soy M., los saludo desde la comuna [...] de Medellín, Colombia. Voy a contarles cómo me sentí cuando nos contagiamos papá y yo de covid. Cuando dejaron salir a los adultos mayores, mi papá, de 72 años, salió a trabajar, vino sintiéndose muy mal y a los dos días ya tenia fiebre y malestar en el cuerpo. 5 días después lo llevamos a urgencias y no le hicieron nada, ni la prueba. Lo mandaron a la casa, al otro día llamó un médico a su celular y le dijo que 5 días después le harían la prueba, le llevarían la medicina. Pero no, nada. Tuve que poner la queja en la superintendencia de salud y ahí si vinieron. Le pagamos la prueba rcp y salió positiva. Sólo le mandaron acetaminofen y cetirizina, nada más. Como yo lo estaba cuidando, me infecte. Sentí muchísimo dolor en mis articulaciones, la boca era seca, me dio muchísima diarrea y mi cuerpo era pesado. No podía dormir porque debía reportar los signos vitales de papá cada 4 horas y eso hizo más agudos mis síntomas de fatiga. La eps no envió prueba por cerco epidemiológico con mi papá. Fueron los 18 días más eternos que he vivido. Sólo nos contagiados nosotros dos. Cuando me dieron el alta, caminé 3 cuadras y me sentí muy mal, me sentía muy débil. Incluso un mes después intenté nadar y no pude, me ahogue nadando. Y aun hoy, marzo de 2021, sigo con problemas de diarreas con algunas comidas. Bajé 5 kilos con eso, papá ya recuperó el olfato pero a veces dice que siente malestar en las piernas. El covid es una mierda, es horrible y me sorprende que la gente crea que es una mentira.
March 10, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Feb 24, 2021 Photo sketch 1: Caption: Waiting in car as D gets his second vaccine. My turn? Maybe this spring? Feb 28, 2021 Photo sketch 2: We do the same thing everyday. The monotony is numbing. Covid Days
March 10, 2021
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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.
By now you get the idea that I like Fort Orange Brewing's products... This is from early 2021 sometime, I don't recall exactly when. It fits with the Perseverance beer label I just contributed. This beer label reads "A Bright Tomorrow," and depicts a sunrise over the Empire State Plaza. It represents the feeling that by Feb. 2021, with a new administration and vaccines being distributed, that the end of the pandemic may be in sight. We'll see. I write this on 9 March 2021.
March 10, 2021
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What has changed most about the world since the pandemic began?
The massive inequities in the United States have become more visible since the start of the pandemic. The huge gaps between people who have what they need and people who don't have what they need. Why do so many people have trouble collecting support when they are entitled? Why are states so different? Why do people who support(ed) Trump keep voting against their own best interests? Why is there so much hate? Why can't people do what works best for the common good?
March 10, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
This image, drawn by a four-year-old, says it all."I am angry!" next to a scowling face with gritted teeth. I don't know whether she drew it because she was feeling angry, or if she was just practicing drawing faces because they're learning about feelings at school. So I ask her how she's feeling. She tells me. It's elaborate, rambling, complex, and funny. She's honest, unselfconscious in a way that adults never are. She speaks in clauses and interrupts herself. She is love and joy and all good things distilled, sitting in the patch of sun on the scuffed living room floor of the new, smaller house we just moved into. She is surrounded by cardboard boxes and the dust of the house's previous occupants (why wouldn't you clean a house before you sold it to another family during a pandemic?! "I am angry!"). She is learning about feelings. She is teaching me.
March 10, 2021
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¿Cuál ha sido el tópico más importante en las noticias en la última semana - ya sea en su comunidad, en su país, o en el mundo?
Entre los temas más importantes en el país, ha sido la compra de pruebas defectuosas de COVID-19. La Ministra de Salud misma puso la denuncia ante el Ministerio Público. La sociedad, en general, está sorprendida del nivel de corrupción y la falta de consideración hacia las personas de los funcionarios públicos que hacen este tipo de negociaciones. La otra noticia se refiere al atraso de la venida de vacunas contra el COVID-19 al país. Mientras Panamá, Costa Rica y El Salvador ya se encuentran vacunando a su población, Guatemala se ha tenido que conformar el día de hoy con una donación de 2,500 vacunas de parte de Israel. De nuevo, vemos con asombro nuestro atraso . El presidente vocifera y pone una queja contra el sistema COVAX ante la OMS. De todas formas, eso no agiliza la venida de las vacunas.
March 10, 2021
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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.
One of the restrictions I was affected by was transportation rules. I used to take the subways late at night to go home from work and now it takes me longer because the subways stop running from 2 am - 4 am and I have to take a shuttle bus or ubers. I also feel a little insecure about the sanitation process in public transportation in NYC.
March 10, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Feeling anxious about everybody talking about the group plans we will have this summer - weddings! Internships! Parties! Fundraisers! As though everyone is not traumatized and can just go right back to everything. And then you look at Facebook and see people whose vaccine appointment isn't till June and your group isn't even eligible yet. SLOW YOUR ROLL, people.
March 10, 2021
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¿De que manera el coronavirus le está afectando su vida en este momento? Cuéntenos sus experiencias, sensaciones/emociones, y pensamientos.
Esta semana mi abuelo enfermó un poco más y entré en pánico creyendo que quizá aún traíamos el virus o algo. Pero era solo parte de su fibrosis pulmonar. Es angustiante preguntarme cuánto tiempo más le queda con nosotros. Mi mamá a la vez tuvo cita médica y resultó que tiene que pasar por una operación de vesícula. Por suerte el hospital donde será atendida no recibe enfermos de COVID-19 pero no deja de ser preocupante. Hace dos años por un respirador y una sonda defectuosas falleció la abuela de mi novio. Literalmente murió de dolor. Era quizá la señora más dulce y amable que haya conocido y que se haya ido así de horrible es sumamente indignante y doloroso de pensar. Supongo que me dio un poco de pánico pensar que mi propia madre tuviera ese destino y sí entré en crisis, sumado a lo de mi abuelo. Mi novio por suerte pudo tranquilizarme y al menos encontrar algo bueno entre todo esto. El estar acá me permitirá pasar más tiempo con mi abuelo y también cuidar de mi mamá, cosa que no haría si siguiera en Guadalajara. Han comenzado a sonar rumores de que pronto tendremos la vacuna, para octubre. Sin embargo, aún si la tuviéramos ¿Cuánta gente querría vacunarse? ¿Funcionaría para ayudarnos a volver a una relativa normalidad?
March 10, 2021
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every little thing feels like a big thing right now.
March 10, 2021
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Talk about how the pandemic has affected your closest relationships.
Pre-pandemic my husband and I had a group of friends that we saw regularly (every month or two). We've kept in touch with most of them via text, Zoom, and a handful of small in-person outdoor gatherings. But it's not the same. I find myself feeling resentful of friends who are thriving in the pandemic--taking up crafting, cooking, and roller skating, enjoying remote relationships they established pre-pandemic, etc. I am not thriving. I am keeping my head down and trudging through each day, regularly questioning the point of any of this. I have struggled with bouts of depression and feel like I have no one to talk to about it. Everyone is depressed, and the people who aren't depressed make me feel like I just need to get over myself. It's lonely. I hope when all the adults are vaccinated, things can get back to something that resembles normal, but I do feel like there's a kind of river between me and the people I call friends right now. Getting across the bridge is going to be harder than just going to a few barbecues or whatever this summer.
March 11, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
10 March 2021. Wednesday. I'm still lonely. I have my ups and downs, but today is particularly down. I was listening to this podcast on the science of happiness and the episode was about "awe" and walking in awe. For some reason, I almost wept as I walked to the beach. I don't know why. I think the podcast reminded me that I was doing the best I can. That, successfully, I got out of bed even without the aid of the podcast and was going to the beach to walk and breathe and meditate in motion. I was doing my best. Yet it also reminded me that I wanted to walk with someone who wasn't there, someone I will probably never see not only because she's so far away, but also because she's walking with someone else. I was doing my best even though I was still alone. I ought to be grateful I had the time to go to the beach. I need to remember I am enough. For now. We're all just doing the best we can.
March 11, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
This week, I read a lot of interesting articles that underlined the importance of:
a) taking the time to grieve the losses inflicted by COVID (not just the loss of loved ones or the loss of physical health for those suffering from long COVID, but also the loss of our routines, our certainty about the future, potential friendships, experiences, etc.)
b) recognizing that COVID is a mass trauma that is bound to have specific psychological effects.
I suspect that the timing is because we are one year into the pandemic, and anniversaries are usually a time to reflect.
The articles on grief remind me of a quote from The Office, where Michael says: "It is my job to get them all the way through to acceptance, and, if not acceptance, then just depression. If I can get them depressed, then I'll have done my job." It's weird because I feel depressed all the time and the memes on Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens suggest that pretty much everyone (at least young people) are going through something like depression. So I'd have assumed we were "almost all the way there". And yet when I think about it, I realize that as a society, we haven't even begun the grieving process. As a society I feel like we're stuck in denial. Denial in the sense that I keep hearing this constant refrain of "Once all this is over, everything will be back to normal". It's not just individuals I hear this from, it's institutions. As far as I can gather, my university is planning for everything to resume "as normal" starting this fall: all students living on campus, all or mostly in-person classes, student gatherings permitted, with maybe the only big change being masks required in public places. But the problem is that the more people repeat this refrain of "everything will be back to normal", the more they delay that process of realizing that normal is never coming back. Sure, the *trappings* of normality will return: we'll be able to go back to the office, hang out with our friends guilt-free and go to bars and such. But from a psychological perspective, we will never be the same again. We will never go out and meet new people with as much reckless abandon as we used to. We will never plan our future with the same confidence that things will work out. We will never have the same faith and trust we used to in our institutions. I think people repeat this refrain of "back to normal" so often because they don't want to acknowledge that they lost something. They want to imagine that quarantine and shutdown was like taking down a tent, folding it up, and putting it in a closet until better weather comes around. Whereas in reality, quarantine and shutdown was more like demolishing a house. Sure, you can rebuild the house according to your initial blueprint, but your new house will never be the same as the old house. Maybe the paint you used for the outside just isn't sold anymore, or maybe the stair steps are just a little too high. That doesn't mean that your new house is bad; in fact, your new house may be better in some ways (maybe you got double-paned windows and you rewired the electricity to optimize for solar panels). But I don't think you can really fully appreciate the new house until you accept that the old house is gone and trying to resurrect it is futile.
I personally find myself hard pressed to treat my personal losses as something to grieve when society does not see it that way. It's frustrating because I do think that I need to go through that grieving/healing process, and as a society we need to do so as well. But it's hard when no one else sees it that way. I keep hearing over and over from well-meaning friends, through social media, through some news articles: "Don't fret, don't worry, everything will go back to normal eventually". That was a nice message maybe in March or April 2020,
March 11, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Coronavirus has affected me in significant ways, like not taking in-person classes, not being able to see my elderly family members (being Hispanic, this means a lot,) having to become a teacher to my eleven years old son, etc. However, I think that the more bothersome ways are the little things that we have to do every day like, making sure to have a mask every time we go out, remembering not to touch anything that we don't have to touch, washing our hands all the time, etc. They are like little stones in your shoe, they might not be a big deal at the beginning, but now you have bruised feet and can't walk. The fact that my husband has to work every day and come home not knowing if he somehow got infected is distressing. Anyway, I feel I can't complain. Although my husband was out of work for two months and we are NOT receiving any government help due to our immigration status (it's complicated), we had enough savings to pay rent for those two months. The local food pantry (run by another person with a "complicated" immigration status also) helped us survive. So although I am very bitter towards the Trump administration and everything it did to dehumanize me and mine, I am very grateful to my community and neighbors that have been there for us. Now, this week has been a good one. I received a notification that my son's school might be returning to in-person classes. Also, spring is in the air. We have roses in our rosebush, and there has been intermittent rain which is great here in California. I feel hopeful of the future and can't wait to see my elderly aunt (I hope she never finds out I called her elderly.) She received the last dose of the vaccine two weeks ago, and this weekend is her birthday. I am so looking forward to seeing her!
March 11, 2021
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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?
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