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¿De que manera el coronavirus le está afectando su vida en este momento? Cuéntenos sus experiencias, sensaciones/emociones, y pensamientos.
El domingo 30 de enero me vacuné contra el Covid-19 por primera vez. Era el último día que iba a haber jornada de vacunación en una iglesia cercana a mi casa. No tuve que esperar, ni hacer cola. Me pusieron la Astrazeneca. El pinchazo se ha puesto un poco rojo y tengo una inflamación al lado que también duele. La reacción fue leve, un poco de tos y de dolor de espalda, así como fatiga. En la pierna donde tengo más problema de circulación sanguínea sí aparecieron algunas manchas rojas cerca de la rodilla. Pero, aparte de eso, estoy bien. En mi país hay una palabra coloquial para designar esta condición en la que te enfermas por cualquier cosa. Se dice es: chincurrienta. Sí, soy chincurrienta, todo se me pega, todo me da, me enfermo en un ratito. Porque estoy inmunosuprimida. Dentro de dos meses deberé ponerme la segunda dosis. Más o menos por el 30 de marzo. Veremos cómo me va hasta entonces. Mi hermano y mi hijo ya se recuperaron de la infección. Han vuelto a sus actividades normales. Mi hermano todavía tose un poco y se siente fatigado.
February 5, 2022
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
When we all realized we had to wear masks, I developed an elaborate system of ordering my masks in a row and always taking from the right side, so that I could be sure that any mask I had been using had had at least five days to "dry" out and for any virus on it to shed. Now I'm down to a coat rack, masks thrown about, no order whatsoever. This is how I feel these days--completely scattered and without any sense of forward direction. It's true, we are coming out of winter, the vaccines are here, but the messiness of the vaccines is so depressing. My very progressive county, in an effort to be equitable, is holding back tons of vaccine until poor people and people of color can get them. Meanwhile tons of old people and teachers can't get them through the county and have to look elsewhere. At the same time, the governor (a republican) is sending a ton of vaccines to the pharmacies because they are less stringent about who they vaccinate. I find myself in the off position of actually supporting a Republican in this case. I have lost patience with people who are skeptical about the vaccines. If you don't want them, then just get out of the way and let other people have them. I feel like that is totally classist and racist of me, but I have friends over 65 who are going crazy trying to get vaccines. In this case, there really is scarcity. The rollout has been such a huge mess it's depressing. And meanwhile, my mother, like SO many other elderly people in care homes, is deteriorating emotionally from 12 fricking months of isolation and there's nothing my brothers and I can do about it. Part of me feels guilty for complaining because, hey--she's alive, she has food, she has medical care, at least she didn't die alone in an ICU, suffocating in her own lungs But then I think, oh Fuck that. I'm just angry and sad that this whole pandemic happened, that Chinese bureaucrats fucked this up, and Trump fucked it up, and the world fucked it up and it's still here and how many people have suffered and died. I've been trying to keep it together for my family and stay cheerful, but I don't know. I think I ran out of happy steam or happy juice or whatever it was motivating me to be up. I just want me and everyone else to be vaccinated and all the bickering everywhere to stop.
February 27, 2021