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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
It is the first time we come back to nyc since our last visit on March 2020… When we visited then I was the only soul wearing a mask in Nyc… now a lot of people use it. We are happy to be able to go out and enjoy a trip like this. Our daughter is staying in NYC for a month, and sharing an apartment w 3 girls… one came back yesterday from a trip to Miami and very soon she reported she tested positive… so mi daughter went to get tested, thank god she is negative and she began using a mask as if it was a part of her body, she wears it constantly. Mi brother who lives in Colombia w his wife and 3 adult sons has lived trough a very difficult week… A. tested positive, he passed it to P., and finally M. got it… so 3 out of 5 relatives got infected…after months and months of confinement. Such a difficult time in Colombia simply because the vaccines are so slowly being offered to the general public. I regret I dis not invite the family to come over to get vaccinated.
July 15, 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 about this project on NPR, and I wanted to contribute in order to memorialize my experiences for the future. I am still recovering from the COVID infection I received last year. I was on medical leave for the last half of 2020. I went back to work January 2021 but still get very fatigued, especially when talking with people because I am still experiencing word-finding difficulties. My boyfriend and I want to get married, but we are waiting for him to get a job. He has been unemployed for a whole year. Thankfully he is living rent free with family and has his immediate needs cared for, but it has been a frustrating situation for us both. I am working from home, but I had to go to the office today to print off paperwork to mail out. Unfortunately, the postage machine was broken, which meant that I had to come back home to mail out the documents. Something as simple as mailing something out becomes a huge hassle. I am tired. I haven't been sleeping well for the past two weeks or so, but it's hard to parse out what is depression, and what is work stress, and what is my continued COVID recovery, and what is what I call "COVID-depression," which is the mental state that we as a society are finding ourselves in. I am encouraged that the J&J vaccine was approved and is starting to be distributed, and I am waiting my turn. I am hoping that I can get my vaccine sooner, since I have a number of underlying health conditions.
March 5, 2021