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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
It’s thanksgiving tomorrow and I usually travel by Greyhound to visit my brother and his family in Holland MI Not going this year and will spend thanksgiving alone with a bottle of white Zinfandel , a pumpkin pie and my cat Willow. Am thinking of all the things I have lost this year including my sense of safety: my mom, a favorite cousin, the bike trail along Muskegon Lake is flooded, coffee shops closed, public library has pick-up only (thank goodness for that), my writers group disbanded, fear of getting on public transportation and I have no car. And just chatting with people I met during the day in my apartment building, wandering around the city, and hanging out at the local coffee shop. We had our first snow yesterday and it was beautiful but a warm front blew through and it is all gone this morning, Rain and clouds expected today and the gloomy weather does nothing for my mood, And the fear that every persons path you cross could be harboring a deadly virus is unnerving to say the least. I’m emotionally exhausted,
November 26, 2020
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Talk about what you think the world will be like after the pandemic is over.
So on top of all the crazy COVID stuff, this week we are dealing with the aftermath of tropical storm Isaias with 700,000 customers without power in CT alone when it finally cleared out of here. Our electric company, Eversource, has been taken to task for underestimating the storm which is in the top three worst storms in recent times here in CT. I've been through the other two (Sandy and the freak October snowstorm in 2012) and yeah, its that bad. Trees and wires down everywhere. I drove past this homemade sign the other day. A massive tree had fallen across the dead end road the sign is pointing down, wires pulled down everywhere, and even after 3 days there was still no crews in sight. Neighbors ended up cutting the tree themselves in order to be able just to get out to the main road. I talked to someone who lives on the road and they will be lucky if they get power back in a week, but it will probably take longer. When I drove past this sign ...I thought to myself, "yeah, right good luck with that. Eversource will come when its good and ready, meanwhile you guys need to take matters into your own hands if you actually want to get through this." So what does all this have to do with the future after COVID? Increasingly I think we are being left to fend for ourselves across the board -- whether its after a major storm or in the face of a global pandemic. No government guidance, assistance, or protection so its going to to be up to us, individually and as families, to take care of ourselves. That seems to be the way Republican like it and they seem to have gotten their way in this country at least. When a crisis happens we pretty much have to take care of ourselves, our families and our friends, because no one is coming to assist us, at least not from any government body or in any official capacity. ...
August 11, 2020