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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
My husband can't let go of his lingering anger at people who don't wear masks to the store. It's true that where we live, many of them are of the "if you wore a mask, you're a sheeple" variety. So I see his reasons for bitterness. They didn't help end the pandemic, and now they get to go back to normal acting like they were right all along. But I've run out of energy to be mad about it. I've done what I can to protect others and myself, and that's all I can do.
June 23, 2021
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Are you in touch with family or friends in other parts of the country, or other parts of the world? If so, talk about how the pandemic has been affecting them.
A sign in Frankfurt airport after we arrived from the US ... ours was one of the only flights checking in, and there was NO ONE ahead of us at international security as we checked in for our flight. Felt really eerie. ... The UEFA European championship is going on right now, and seating apparently is really limited in some places like Munich, but tonight we saw footage from Hungary where the stadium was totally packed. Unsurprising with Orban in charge. Later this evening on TV we saw an hour of performances from the Elbjazz festival earlier this month, and one of the performers was quoted talking about how great it feels to finally be playing live again -- but we couldn't tell from the broadcast whether there was an audience there or not. I'm thinking no. ...
June 23, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I think I have a bit of PTSD from the past 15/18 months. Last week I acted in a manner that scared me enough that I chose to make some significant changes to my daily routine. I think I acted the way I am finally significantly feeling the stress of the last year. Although I have established a better routine in some regards, I have also picked up some bad habits to help me cope and I need to break them. I should not be surprised that I am even more anxious and depressed now that things are opening back up then I was in the middle of this. But part of me is surprised. I think when you are forced to change your everyday routine after a long period, then the adjustment to go back is hard. And I am having a difficult time adjusting to anything that resembles a normal. There is also a deep, deep resentment for all the thing my family and I have lost in the past 15 months.
June 23, 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 finding the return to "normal" hard. I never realized how much social anxiety I have about being left out of things until no on was doing anything and I felt so calm. And now that we're back into all these activities i"m feeling really anxious that I don't have a social group, that everyone is having fun without me. It's weird crossing state lines too-- in some states everyone wears a mask inside (Maryland and DC) and then in others (Virginia) people stare at you funny if you wear a mask. It's all very disconcerting. Meanwhile, both my young adult-grown children are a mess. They both weathered the pandemic really well, staying home, social distancing, but now that the worst is over, they are both roiled with anxiety and depression. I really though we'd dodged the bullet with them. I feel really sad for them. But I guess this the after-effect of all that stress. Holding it in during the worst of it and only now feeling everything they held back. And I wish I could assure them that things will get better, that they have a positive future to look forward to. But with the looming climate crisis, what am I supposed to tell them? Trump is gone, but the remaining Republicans seem absolutely stuck on obstructing any kind of progress toward a healthier, more just society. All these great ideas the Democrats and Biden have about redistribution of wealth, it looks like they are. going to just stay that--ideas.
June 25, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
School's out for summer! (I am a 1st grade teacher.) In our last staff meeting our principal asked us to list things we never want to hear or do again after this crazy year. Here's a partial list: I never want to hear these words/phrases again: *Asynchronous/ synchronous *Roomies and Zoomies (our way of addressing the two groups we were teaching - Roomies are in class with me and Zoomies are on the video conference screen) *You're muted! *Push your mute button *type it in the chat *pull up your mask... yes, over your nose too *don't touch me/him/that *social distance I never want to do these things again: *have two sets of students-some in my classroom and others at home *teach on Google Meet *refuse a hug from a 6 year old because of social distancing *tell kids they can't play near each other or help each other or share materials *sit kids at desks 6 ft apart and tell them they can't leave their desk area ALL DAY *teach everything in whole group lessons because we can't have socially-distanced reading groups or learning centers *go an entire year without meeting a student or their parent face to face *go an entire year with inviting family members of my students to the classroom/school *teach with a mask on (this one still might be around next school year though...) Covid-19 has really helped me see the beauty and importance in so much of what we did in the past, and made me long for just an average school day! I can't wait to get back to normal!
June 25, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Why is everything so hard? This week, a friend came out to visit. She didn't even stay with us, but the visit was exhausting, expensive, and time consuming. Have I forgotten how to be social? This photo is from Meow Wolf in Santa Fe. She said it was the best thing she did on her trip, so I was happy about that. But to me the day was stressful and unnerving at the same time. Too much of my mental space is taken up with comparing how things used to be, pre-Covid, and how they are now. It seems like everything before was easy and cheap. Going out now there are roadblocks and barriers. It's aggravating, but of course there is no going back. I have to figure out how to be grateful and happy to be able to do things at all.
June 25, 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.
Parece que en USA todo va mejorando y las restricciones siguen levantándose. El resto del mundo cuenta una historia diferente. Me inquieta pensar que este sea el caso que demuestre que no se trata de que algunos salgan del problema sino se trata de ayudar a que todos salgan del problema para evitar que todos, absolutamente todos regresemos al problema.
June 25, 2021
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Has anything changed dramatically in your life since the pandemic began? If so, talk about it.
Getting COVID sucked. I got double pneumonia and was out, but even after I recovered from that, I am still dealing with post COVID symptoms, a year later. My private disability claim was denied because they don't think I am actually disabled, but at least my state claim was granted. I'm frustrated that I'm not able to work full time, but I'm grateful to have the means to continue to sustain myself. Thousands of other people aren't as lucky. It has given me an appreciation for what I have - even while I mourn what I have lost. I seem to be getting better slowly, and I've been doing everything I can in order to help myself get better. I'm even paying $1600 out of pocket for a program that I believe may alleviate some of my symptoms. (And again, I'm thankful that I have the means to do so!) It is expensive being sick in America, and the expense just brings more woes. It's the number one cause of bankruptcy. The emotional and financial toll it takes on couples is one of the leading causes of divorce. Since it costs money to get better, people just get sicker and sicker, poorer and poorer. This is why we need Medicare for All in America. Not only is it "the right thing to do," but it is the fiscally responsible choice as a society.
June 25, 2021
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Talk about what you think the world will be like after the pandemic is over.
To be honest, I haven't thought about this at all. The only landscape we have in my country is that the pandemic isn't getting over so soon, there is no hope, not a single sign of improvement. But that question kind of made think in optimist way. I think people will value relationships and personal events a lot more, spreading time with people will be more important than work to death. I just caught myself thinking about all the times that I refused going out with friends and family because I was to busy with my tasks.I realize now that I won't even be able to meet many of these people again, they are gone. I just wish I didn't take them for granted as I did. If I survive out of this, I'll absolutely spend more time with the ones I love.
June 26, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
A haiku for this week's entry: Most days I feel lost trapped in work of moving within the big grind
June 26, 2021
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Talk about how the pandemic has affected your closest relationships.
... Through all of this, I learned a few things about my closest relationships and my relationship with myself. I grew a lot in the time of the pandemic. I learned to sit at home, read, listen and find things that I liked to do. I am pretty new in my recovery, this October it'll be three years, I'm still trying to figure out who I am and what I like to do. In my addiction, I didn't have my son. I had just got him back full time in December right before the pandemic hit. This gave us so much time to bond and figure out our relationship. We needed that more than anything. Even though he was only five at the time, there still was a lot of hurt and bad feelings that he had for me. Which is completely understandable. It was really hard the first few months, I just automatically thought that when I got him back, everything would be easy. This was not the case, he didn't trust me, didn't listen to me, I had a very hard time understanding how to relate to him. He is an old soul, and probably because he had to go through some very adult like things in his young years. The shut down gave us a chance to really be together and we did so many beautiful things. Whether it was hiking, sitting outside, painting, playing games, it was really good for us. We have come so far since then, it's truly amazing. I keep making my living amends to him, which is making sure he has everything he needs, emotionally, physically, mentally, and just making sure I'm here for him every single day. I learned that I don't have to just hang out with anyone and just say yes, I can say no. I can sit at home and be completely contect, which is huge for me too. I can run away from feelings but remaining busy. It was very hard to sit with myself for a long time. I felt being told to stay at home really helped me in this way. I slowed down, and got to know me again. And I can still be content just sitting at home, I still don't really care to go out much. This can be a bad thing for me too, but I'm learning how to balance.
June 28, 2021
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Talk about how the events of recent months have affected your financial situation.
I don't get a raise and cost of living is increasing
June 29, 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.
Mi enfermedad autoinmune se activó hace dos semanas. Tengo lesiones en el cuerpo. Eso quiere decir que no me puedo vacunar por ahora. Estoy esperando que llegue el aviso a una tía para que reciba la segunda dosis de la vacuna Sputnik V. Lo bueno es que ya conozco cómo llegar al centro de vacunación. La primera vez, me perdí. Estoy trabajando contra el tiempo, todo el tiempo. Eso significa estrés y el estrés se traduce en enfermedad autoinmune activa. En realidad, creo que pesó más en mí la preocupación por la familiar embarazada y la situación de mi hijo.
June 29, 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.
I have been unable to see my friends and most of my family for over a year. I have also been unable to participate in my hobby of singing barbershop harmony for over a year. This has been difficult as singing was a way of life for me and has been taken away and at the moment we have no clear idea of when we can get back to singing in person with other people.
June 29, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
More than one year has passed, and I cannot yet process what happenned during this apocalyptic year. I cannot keep track how many aquiantances I have lost and how many have been infected, suffered and still struggling with finance and moving through this home stay practice. I feel like this is a another life and I shall be another person when it will be colpmetely over in near future. I travelled from Bangladesh to the USA during this pandemic, we lost jobs and survived with our savigns and stimulus package for the first time as a while collar professional family. I feel like, I am alive to see so many deaths and human mortality and uncertainty of our existence are more vivid than ever before. I do not know whether I could have been ever be able to process this experience. As I have found this journal, I thought to begin to write my feeling, experience in this journal form as living social history for the generations to come.
July 1, 2021
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How has the pandemic affected your work, or your schoolwork? Give an example or two.
During the pandemic, everyone in our company who can work from home is doing so. About 95% of our employees have been doing this since March 2020. At some point, people will start coming back in to the office to work. The company's plan post-pandemic is to offer people the option to work from home (part time). This is a direction they were planning to go anyway in an effort to reduce the amount of downtown office space they're leasing. The pandemic accelerated that plan.
July 2, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Pandemic made me creative in cooking, singing,crotchet and many more. I am in different healthy food blogs. I love to decorate my plate with various colorful fruits and vegetables.
July 2, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
It's been a good week. We saw my parents for the first time in almost a year last weekend and now my mother-in-law is visiting us at home (we also hadn't seen her in almost a year). All of our parents are fully vaccinated and we are a few days away from it ourselves. It's a relief to be able to finally be around our family after so much time apart. I really feel for the families who are separated by borders and for so many different reasons. It's tough. On another note, I am extremely saddened by the news of the condo collapse in Florida. It's such a tragedy and unthinkable that such a thing could happen in the US. I don't know personally anyone involved there, but it's just incredibly sad. I've read today that they found the bodies of two children, one the age of my daughter (4). I kept thinking about this tonight as I was putting her to bed, thinking how lucky I am to be able to hold her in my arms and hear her giggles - I held her a little closer tonight. Any loss of life is too much, and we've experienced so much of it in the past year, I find it difficult sometimes to read the news, and it's just more sadness and tragic events. It's wearing us out.
July 2, 2021
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We hear a lot these days about the economic impact of the pandemic. Has this been on your mind? If so, tell us what you're thinking.
Homelessness was already a problem in California before the pandemic, but the economic impact of the shutdowns mandated to curb the spread of the virus has pushed many people who were just one paycheck away from disaster out into makeshift tent dwellings on the streets of Berkeley, where I have been living during the pandemic. Over the last 15 months, the number of tent dwellers living on the streets of Berkeley has steadily increased. Mercifully, the City has chosen to leave them alone, and has set up port-a-potties and hand-washing stations near the largest groups of tents. My heart goes out to these people whose economic situation, often due to circumstances beyond their control, has made their lives so difficult. I am outraged at the approach that many other jurisdictions have adopted toward their unhoused residents. My hometown of Santa Cruz, for one, regularly gives tent dwellers a 3-day notice to move (to where?), then confiscates any belongings that haven't been moved, and for the most part, dumps them in the landfill. The eviction moratoriums in some areas have helped many people who would otherwise be on the streets, but our government, at all levels, needs to do a lot more to address the underlying economic inequalities in this country, which have been both exacerbated and highlighted by the pandemic.
July 2, 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.
I never had a day off during the pandemic working pharmacy. Travel wise, the roads had no traffic during the Michigan quarantine which was eery but honestly, nice. It was recommended however, to have paperwork certifying from your place of business that you should be on the road in the event that you were pulled over by the police. That was something new, and did not feel good. It's an odd notion that you may be ticketed simply for being on the road if you didn't have proof that you should be there.
July 2, 2021