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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
About the only people I see are places I go for food, like the farmers market. It’s usually a five minute chat but it means a lot to me, ....a friendly face, a real person . Most know my name by now as I go to the same places every week, the coffee shop, the bakery, the library, the market, the yoga studio juice bar. I’m scheduled for my second vaccine shot next week and hoping that will make me feel safe enough to get back in public transportation, as I;don’t have a car. This next week should be challenging as we have had a snow storm and are supposed to get polar vortex temperatures. I have stocked up on food as news reports have been warning us all week. Still being stuck inside sucks. Besides there is a bed bug outbreak in my senior apartment building which has me freaked out. There are four apartments near me with bed bugs and extermination treatments have not been successful yet. Another one was done on Tuesday and hoping this takes care of the problem.
February 15, 2021
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Last year we were getting our vaccinations and it felt like the pandemic was going to be over soon This year I've got that same feeling of bursting out into full public life I'm reminded of the line from the priest in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Romeo has been banished from his home town and threatens to kill himself out of anger and despair The priest argues that he needs to stop talking about suicide, count his blessings rather than his misfortunes, and tells him to get out of town until time passes and they can "... call thee back With twenty hundred thousand times more joy Than thou went'st forth in lamentation." From the beginning of the quarantine I kept thinking about this concept, that any separation would be temporary and we would all get together again and be happier than ever after being apart That thought sustained me for months and in fact it has turned out to be the case
April 11, 2022