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Have any government policies had a direct impact on your life lately? If so, talk about the policy that’s affected you most and the impact it’s had.
The mask wars are still on going in Michigan, in Muskegon where I live and in my senior citizens apartment building, Someone on NPR said that if 95% of Americans wore masks, we could get the virus under control But mask wearing has about 50 % compliance rate in my apartment building ..even the building manager seldom wears one. He wore it below his nose when I had to met with him in a small office for apartment recertification in late October, Residents constantly put a mask on the statute of Charles Hackley, a lumber baron , who built our city in the 1890s. City officials remove it and its back in within a day or two, ..a constant reminder of the mask wars, I have only confronted two people in building about it. One said she was on the phone and the other said it was in his pocket. Don’t know if it is stupidity or defiance of the governors mandate to wear a mask.
November 25, 2020
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Talk about about something that has changed in your life in the last few months.
In the last few months, our household shrunk back down to its pre-pandemic size. During much of 2020 and the first half of 2021, my 95 year old mother in law and 25 year old son lived with us. They had both been living in NYC when Covid struck, and we all felt that they were safer living with us in the suburbs than in crowded NY. This past spring, my mother in law, then recently fully vaccinated moved back to her own home, and then this fall, my son started a graduate program. So, now they are both back in the city. It has taken a while to get reacquainted with the quiet and just buying groceries and cooking for two! It is nice to only be responsible for ourselves again. But I do miss my son and the easy access we had to talking with him. He is super busy with school, and our conversations only give us glimpses of his life. But he is happy and busy, and once again, socializing with other young adults (as it should be). I've very much looking forward to having both of them with us for Thanksgiving next week. I'm glad that it is safe to travel and gather again together in our homes.
November 22, 2021