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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
... The record temperature recorded in Death Valley of 130 degrees F reminds me not to forget to feel despairing about the climate crisis. The pandemic has made everything feel like it's falling apart 8/19/20 Wildfire smoke from up north, and it's raining ash. Air quality monitors say unhealthy for sensitive groups/orange first thing today. By 1 pm it has crossed into Unhealthy (red). We're so lucky not to be in the middle of the fire, but our strategy in the past was to close the windows even in the heat and to wear a valved mask outside. Now I just feel hopeless enough about the future (keep pondering the fact that my injury keeps me from having the colonoscopy I should be having now, and knowing my own history and my family's, that makes it super likely I will die of colon cancer at some point -- is this just pandemic depression talking?) that we're just keeping the windows open so we don't get so hot, and going about life pretty normally except that S won't go running. Y and D had to evacuate to a hotel farther south with their cats. ...
February 9, 2021
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What has changed most about the world since the pandemic began?
The only thing I hear on the television is corona. It seems like everyhting has been paused, but has it really? Nobody is trying to stop any war, people are still dying every day, people are loosing their jobs, immigrants and refuges are still looking for asylums, the power of the police is growing every day, the banks still demand the loans of the unpaid and unemployed people. So, TO ALL GOVERNMENTS, if you want the world to pause, then pause everything, not just the things that work for you.
December 11, 2020