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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
With the mask mandates lifting, cases in the US slowing, and vaccination rates rising, it feels like, if not the end, the beginning of the end of the pandemic. Recently on Kottke Ride Home I heard about how people got through pandemics in the past. For example, students tuned in to school lessons on the radio. Which got me thinking: how will people in the future wonder how we in the past got through the pandemic without the technology they will take for granted? Perhaps they will say, “How could they get through a pandemic without 3-D virtual reality goggle space? They must have been so lonely!” Or, “I can’t imagine being isolated without autonomous delivery vehicles.” Or, “A pandemic lockdown without on-demand printed food is unthinkable.” Best of all would be where competent government, well-supported and regulated pharmaceutical systems, and equitable political, social, and medical treatment means that potential epidemics are identified and shut down right away. Will people of the future say, “That Covid-19 pandemic is completely bonkers, how could something like that ever even have happened.” I hope so.
May 20, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
The COVID pandemic is surging through the states of Florida, California and even Arizona which are large states here in the U.S. Hopefully the number of cases decrease and people take another step to the action of staying at home and avoiding large gatherings. I personally have been affected by it with getting sad news about my family members in Dominican Republic having the virus and struggling to get through the day and so my mother always check with them as if is a endless thing that she does. My mom worries every time because things are very concerning especially since Dominican Republic aren't as successful as this country when it comes to its finances. Other than the pandemic ravaging many parts of the world till this day I kind of worry about where I live at since there's bad things happening sometimes.
July 25, 2020