Featured Refresh
Text & Image
How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Slowly gaining my sanity back. The second lockdown is over, and the third is behind the corner. My little one is back in her preschool, the 1st grader is on a private “corona summer school” (about 8-11 first-grade kids and two teachers), since school has not resumed yet. It costs us a 100 NIS a day (about 30$) and it’s worth every Shekel. I made myself coffee, and drank it really slowly. Nothing is really over, of course. And I still don’t get to be alone (my husband is working from home too). But at least I can imagine from here what this regained life is going to look like.
October 21, 2020
Text Only
Talk about something exciting that's happening right now, and why it's exciting.
As part of my anxiety management strategy, I like to track numbers. Numbers provide facts and you can't argue with them. So recently I've been tracking the vaccine rates in Spain because that's where my family and friends are. As of next week, the part of Spain I"m going to, the Basque Country, will have the same level of vaccinated people as the US. Not quite as high as the area I'm from, but they are close to hitting 50% of people fully vaxxed. They are also opening up the vaccine to all adults as of this week. People are really eager to get vaxxed here, so I think the numbers will keep rising quickly. I suspect Spain, or at least this part of it, will reach something close to herd immunity by the end of the summer. I'm happy for my friends, and family and this community, because Spain has really suffered badly--economically and with loss of life. So I think this is exciting...that things will be so much safer for people.
July 9, 2021