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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
My studio attached to our converted barn has two skylights. Today as I was part of a Creative Tribe on Zoom, my husband climbed up on our roof and cleared a foot of snow off my art studio skylights. I realized how as a couple we try to clear off our emotional sky lights each day during a 100 year pandemic and a Congress that was stormed by a mob! We need clarity and truth shining through to us each and every day as we await our vaccine shots. BTW my husband and I mark forty years together this coming Summer.
February 7, 2021
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How do you think the pandemic has affected the way people around the world see the U.S.?
Absolutely. I read that many nations and people who use to look up to the U.S., especially in terms of scientific and medical leadership no longer feel that we are worthy of emulation or even respect because we have so screwed up our national response to the pandemic. Yes, we did well in developing the vaccine, but we failed as a nation to protect each other, to act in concert and with respect to stem the spread of the virus. The polarization and fighting over masks and social distancing and now over vaccinations repel people. Our reactions and even policies especially some state policies to the pandemic are a deterrent to people who have choices about going abroad to study or work. We are not their first choice, and we will suffer from this. This trend had begun prior to the pandemic but our behavior in the last 18 months has exacerbated the movement away from the U.S. as a desirable place to live or work.
October 26, 2021