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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Covid is running amok in the office. One guy in my department came into work with Covid symptoms and succeeded in taking out the entire department with the exception of myself. I was "lucky" enough to have been home, in isolation, due to another possible exposure. I tested negative on that day and was in work the next day. Stupid! My department team lead, after testing positive, called the senior partner of our company and begged him to instigate a testing requirement, a vax mandate, or at the very least, a mask mandate. Now, I have never seen a mask on any of the partners. In fact, I'm sure that only one or two of them are even vaccinated. (This is Utah, after all.) So, as you can imagine, they didn't instigate any kind of mandate. What they did do was send out an email to the company requesting us all to be respectful to those who wish to wear masks in the office. I am so frustrated right now! I'm alone in my department, doing the work of seven and getting flak from leadership because I'm falling behind. I don't know what to do, maybe I wasn't so "lucky" after all.
January 14, 2022
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I am tired. But I know that I shouldn't be, that I don't have to be and that I can't be. Not when there are real people suffering and working and dying. Not when there are real people on the streets trying to make this country better, trying to make the world better. Yet I am stuck indoors, waking up around noon, playing video games, and trying to get some work done before the semester begins. The least I can do is not feel tired, to get going. The A/C is on all day because it is so hot outside. It makes my head muggy. I can't breathe well and I can't think straight because of the headache. But I think of people who REALLY can't breathe, so I try to suck it up. I try to just do something at home. Then again, who am I to care about the US? It is not my country, it is not even my adopted country. I am nothing to the US and so perhaps America should be nothing to me. Even though I spend time educating its students, when it comes down to that, America will abandon me, the foreigner, as soon as it possibly can. Thanks for your contributions we did not ask for. As I wrote this, my girlfriend just came into let me know that F-1 students will no longer be allowed to take online classes and stay in the US. See? I was right.
July 6, 2020