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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I took this photograph two days ago in Terminal 4 of JFK. We were on our way to Mexico for work, traveling again for the first time in a year. We're incredibly lucky to be fully vaccinated so feel comfortable traveling but of course, everything is different. The airport was so much quieter than usual, most stores aren't open and as I walked past this lounge I saw a squirrel inside. I did a double take, thinking for sure that it wasn't real but then it started moving. Poor thing was so skinny and was clearly looking for food but with the lounge being closed there was nothing for it to eat. Who knows how long it's been surviving inside the lounge or how much longer it could survive there. I told an airport worker about it but I'm not sure there was anything anyone could do for it. It reminded me of the "nature is healing / we are the virus" meme that was going around in the the early days of the pandemic but without the levity.
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.
I am currently sitting in the monitoring area after having just received my first vaccine dose. I feel more emotional than I expected to feel— this sort of feel giddy relief that maybe this life we’ve been living the last year can end. Meanwhile my husband and son are both home. My 3 year old is out of preschool again all week this week because he has a runny nose and can’t go back until he’s been 72 hours symptom free. It’s the kind of runny nose where during normal times I wouldn’t even consider keeping him home even a day. But here we are both working truncated days for an entire week again because of a little bit of snot. And the kiddo runs circles around the house and us.
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.
It was a year ago today that the WHO declared a pandemic. Life has changed. This week I went to my medical appointments; did my grocery shopping....basically went about my life. It no longer feels strange nor does it induces high anxiety to wear a mask, stay physically distanced or use hand sanitizer when entering or leaving stores. This week I watched a video broadcast about the rollout of vaccines in my area. It will be a month or more before I will get my shot in the arm but I am looking forward to a little more freedom and peace of mind.
March 11, 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.
A question I've been struggling to figure out this year is: who are the people in my community? Are they the people at my university? In my field? My neighborhood? Just my family and closest friends? I've received the most help, when it was most needed, by the last group (no surprises) & realizing both the brutal difficulty of receiving & giving help, encouragement & support this year as well as how traumatizing it can be to be in a community that doesn't support you.
March 12, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Today, I feel a sense of hope and of contemplation for the year that has been. Today, marks the one year anniversary of the start of the pandemic. A year ago at this time, my husband and I began a six month journey of waiting for his liver transplant. We began living in a community facility far from our home in one tiny room. There we would stay for six months and two days. At the time, we didn't know the pandemic would effect every part of our lives including his ability to receive a liver. I am grateful for the strength of our marriage. This time away from home, living under restrictions, and waiting for a liver donor asked much of us. I learned that turning back or turning away from our circumstances wasn't an option. Every day, we had to recommit to the process of waiting, living under strict conditions. To cope, we focused on one day at time, sometimes one hour at a time. There were days of despair. I learned to embrace those days, giving myself the grace to struggle. Then my spirit would lift, and I would turn back to the job at hand of caring and supporting my spouse in his time of great need. This learned ability to keep moving forward has given me a reserve of strength that I can call on now. The deep bond that I have with my husband brings me great comfort. We will always be a team. My husband received his liver transplant in the middle of a pandemic. His medical team never gave up on him and they cradled us in their care. They are our heroes. As of yesterday, we are both fully vaccinated. I feel a sense of lightness, of hope that the days ahead will bring us joy. I feel grateful for all that I have learned.
March 12, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Feeling so hopeful like we are nearing the end, turning the corner, coming through this... I just hope we take and remember all the lessons learned
March 12, 2021
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Piense en las personas más cercanas a usted. Cuéntenos como el coronavirus les ha impactado sus vidas y diario vivir.
Mis amigos y yo somos actores, justo la última semana que estuvimos libres 2 de ellos estrenaron una obra nueva. Mi novio recien conseguia un trabajo. Todos ellos quedaron sin nada, sin poder ahorrar, sin poder prepararse, con las ganas de mostrarle al publico un trabajo que tomo 3 intensos meses preparar. Ha sido dificil. Algunos tuvieron que dejar sus apartamentos, otros irse a refugiar donde alguien mas que les ayudara, otros siguen buscando trabajos temporales y todos estan desesperados por que esto termine. Los extraño mucho, los quiero abrazar y siento que no pase el tiempo suficiente con ellos, a pesar que los veía a diario, cuando digo a diario es por que incluso los domingos teníamos trabajo juntos. Como todo el mundo, la última vez que nos vimos, nos abrazamos sin saber que era la ultima vez que nos veríamos. Será muy deprimente pero la vida nos estaba sonriendo antes de que todo comenzará. Quizas nos queria dar algo bonito antes de quitarnos casi todo, como un beso de despedida.
March 12, 2021
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What has changed most about the world since the pandemic began?
Los Angeles is our home. The city of legends, the sparling mother of ten thousand stories. Traffic is legendary, the cost of living is astounding, earthquakes are terrifying. What makes our City of Angels worth all of that ? The venues, the amazing restaurants, the world class shopping and art museums. An afternoon at the Getty is everyone's favorite date. Or a visit to the Norton Simon, Hammer or LACMA -- each one showcasing it's own world class collection of brilliant art. And the gardens, (n the photo, Getty Museum). Paradise to wander through. And basically free of charge. You see "Everyone" there, the rich & famous, and everyday moms and dads with their kids. And of course, the Lakers, Dodgers, Rams, Clippers, Bruins, Trojans and all the rest of the teams we love. The food. Holy Angels in Heaven, the food. From every corner of the world, our neighbors brought their delicious food. Showcasing the food their parents brought from hundreds of "old countries". Fancy restaurants where dinner is $100 or more each, and thousands of modest places that would have delighted Anthony Bourdain. Gone. Closed. Barely surviving on take-out orders. Overnight, it all vanished. No games to cheer at. Just TV in our own living rooms. The Rose Parade -- gone. All those wonderful places to visit and eat -- gone. Not to mention our family holidays. Christmas by Zoom ? Hardly. Tickets to Staples ? Not this year ! I got "the stick" first, and E. got hers today. Like plants budding in spring, the places we have missed gradually will come back to life. And our lives slowly will come out of isolation to welcome them. Finally we can celebrate with our family again. No more fear that a holiday dinner might kill an elderly aunt or uncle. Being able to get together with friends and family is the best part of our gradual awakening. Maybe what we learned from the virus is the importance of family.
March 12, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I had a baby during the first wave of the pandemic in the summer of 2020. We have been in quarantine since I was pregnant and the pandemic began about a year ago. I can’t take my baby anywhere. I can’t go anywhere. Her grandparents haven’t been able to meet her yet. I feel grateful for my baby but sad that I can’t share the world with her.
March 12, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
March 12, 2021
March 12, 2021
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Think about the people closest to you. Tell us about how the coronavirus has affected them, and their life.
My mom is home alone...she has thrown herself even more into her community, aiding others, supporting her friends, strengthening her faith...she and I also talk a lot more via facetime, which helps us both enormously.
March 12, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
One of the initial skills that my first grade teacher instilled in her students was the ability to “line up” quickly and quietly. No pushing. No shoving. No breaking in line. Some 60 years later, these lessons have come rushing back to me because…well…lines are a part of everyday life during COVID-19. Since March 2020, we have braved long, sluggish voting lines, registration lines, vaccination lines, toilet paper lines and store checkout lines alongside other masked and (hopefully) appropriately distanced individuals. My fellow earthlings and I have now become professional queuers who understand more than ever before the physical, social and psychological forces at play each time we shuffle through seemingly interminable lines. And as Mrs. A preached to me decades ago, proper queue etiquette is defined by courtesy, tolerance and patience.
March 12, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
This is the anniversary of our quarantine year. Days are warmer and lighter, bringing back memories of the frightening and disorienting start of the pandemic. This is a confusing time for me: so many people have had their vaccines and can shift toward the new normal. I'm in phase 2 so am waiting, feeling depleted, feeling a confusing mix of hope, anger, fear, exhaustion and confusion. Work flows forward, filling my days -- some productive, some not. Despite my best efforts, I'm strangely less attuned to details. I forget to send dial-in details for Zooms, forget to cc key people, skip ahead in processes in ways that I might not have before. Maybe because of the isolation, I feel a lot of anxiety about these mess ups. I'm a freelance writer and editor so maintaining strong relationships with clients is crucial to my future earnings. I am doing the best I can. I'm trying to simplify my life with fewer volunteer involvements so that i can maintain better focus and carve out more time for well-being, self-care and peace of mind. I ordered seeds, potting soil and pots, and am eager to begin work on this year's garden. The snow drops are blooming in my garden. I look forward to trimming the lavender back for new growth, and am excited for a new well-contained bed of mint to grow so I can cook with this. Last night was President Biden's first address to the American people. His quiet kindness and calm, his competence and determination to help is a balm to my soul. I am terrified by the presence of so many people who are determined to deny voting rights to others. This moment of hope feels way too fragile.
March 13, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of WHO declaring Covid as a pandemic, so lots of memories swirling around thinking back to one year ago. I was on a Rotary service project in Guatemala. Learning about and working with Wakami. I don’t remember actually hearing about the pandemic being declared per se. There had been no reported cases in Guatemala, so we felt like we were in a safety bubble. We did go to one nice restaurant and temperatures were taken. Coming off the plane, temperatures were taken. In the States (we left from LAX), all we noticed different were hand sanitizers everywhere. News was not something we were paying too much attention to. On Monday, our second day in country, the stock market tanked. Two days later, one or my fellow travelers got word that the local schools were shutting down. It was surreal. As we approached FRIDAY, the day before we were leaving, we learned that flights in and out of Guatemala were being halted by Monday. We basically just made it out. Flying into LAX, still no precautions at all like we had seen in Guatemala. When I was going through security to catch my connecting flight from LAX to sacramento, my small jar of hand sanitizer was confiscated and tossed. I was so pissed. How much sense does that make when it was a product you could find anywhere. And this was before airlines were doing all the cleaning they were doing. Absolutely ridiculous! I haven’t thought of that last experience for some time. Still pisses me off. Clearly an example of things to come where we as a country did not fully have our act together. Imagine if we had indicated everyone should be wearing masks from day 1, but didn’t because we didn’t want to take PPE away from health providers. Does feel like we are coming to the final phase of this experience that will be studied for generations to come. I only hope we learn our lessons and don’t find this to be the prelude of worse pandemics to come.
March 13, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Interesting fact...at the beginning of the pandemic the elderly had to isolate and stay away from younger famiiy members and friends. Now the elderly population is vaccinated and it is the younger people who must stay away from them!
March 13, 2021
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Talk about how the pandemic has affected your closest relationships.
As I've mentioned before I am a recovering alcoholic. And it is by attending AA meetings, working the 12 steps of the program, and helping newcomers as they seek recovery from alcoholism that has helped keep me sober these past 11 years. The pandemic and the restrictions resulting from it have turned everything in Alcoholics Anonymous upside down. The meetings I attended we're either in a church meeting room or at AA meeting halls. When they closed most eventually transitioned to Zoom. However, we lost approximately forty to fifty percent of those who attended. Not sure why exactly but I've heard from some that they were not comfortable with the electronic format. Some were older and not able to make the switch. Many of those who have gone missing were good friends. We met weekly at meetings and then went out to dinner afterwards along with others in the group. Now we've been out of touch for over a year. They are in my prayers daily.
March 13, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Pleased that my clinic came through with the vaccine and I didn't have to wait in line at some arena or outdoor setting. My clinic did a good job organizing the vaccination process. It was a little machine like but they got the job done. When the nurse handed me back my Vaccination Record Card he told me to save it as it could be my next passport card in the future.
March 13, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Now that it looks like the pandemic will be over in a few months (because we will all be vaccinated), I'm starting to get a bit sad and anxious. I grew to like my pandemic routines and working from home. I guess there are some things I look forward to like seeing friends more often, eating out, going to movies, traveling, etc. So there are good things I want to do. I just hope I can hold on to some of the new habits I gained during the pandemic such as daily walks in the park, more frequent zoom calls with friends and family outside my city, and eating healthier at home. I hope my life doesn't get cluttered again with a lot of superficial nonsense. I want to keep good boundaries about what I let into my life post-pandemic, what I spend time on, and who I spend time with.
March 13, 2021
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Have you or people in your community been harassed, threatened, or attacked since the pandemic began, either in person or online? If so, what happened?
I just heard today about a young Asian woman in my Quaker Meeting who was harassed, and in a very dangerous situation, because of her race. Unless I hear about things like this, my world is absent of this. Most people I know are caucasians, and I livE in a white, priveliged world. Well, not entirely true. My to daughters and sons in law are all Hispanic, but none have ever expressed that they have been harassed.
March 13, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I have uploaded artwork I have been creating in the last few years. I find creative outlets very good for my spirit. I create the artwork with a program on my iPad. I call the method digital abstract expressionism. The title of this work is Supernaturally Improbable. The pandemic reminds us that life is unpredictable and random. The serendipity of life encourages me to believe in luck. My father always said you can be one in million lucky and one in a million unlucky. I believe you can create your own luck by reaching out and trying to seize opportunities. I learned about the pandemic journal from a news article and now I enjoy registering my thoughts and experiences as part of a ritual. I have made it through the pandemic by doing daily exercises as part of an aging program. I still feel young in some ways and lucky that I avoided the coronavirus. I received both Pfizer vaccines. In terms of luck, I have won $100 everyday in the last three days. I hope its a harbinger to winning a major prize. I was able to take advantage of the beautiful weather in East Hampton, New York and get fresh air and take a walk. It opens up the mind and heart. Rituals like keeping a digital diary, buying lotto tickets, reading The New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe and writing many letters to the editor keeps me moving. A night of watching MSNBC, Netflix, HBO Max, Showtime, Comedy Central and Network Evening News feeds the brain food I need.
March 13, 2021