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For many people, the pandemic put travel plans on pause. What about you? Are you traveling, or planning to travel, again? If so, when, where, and under what conditions?
Since my husband is undergoing cancer treatments, and is awaiting (hopefully) a chance to get a second booster, we're not traveling in person. Instead, we've established a pandemic-induced routine of reading aloud to each other. We've explored China at the time of Mao's Revolution, explored Orwell's British countryside and home, and are about to go to Chicago's World Fair via Erik Larson. We treasure this daily ritual, and it's something we wouldn't have thought of doing, were it not for the pandemic.
February 4, 2022
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Talk about about what it's like to use social media during this pandemic.
I do find myself looking at Facebook more, not necessarily posting more. I like finding the latest memes about Trump and his unbelievable lies. I like seeing my friends who are not near me, checking in on them during such terrible times. I still need to practice unplugging when it becomes too much, too overwhelming. Politics and pandemics do not mix well on Facebook and they certainly don't mix well for my mental health. At this point, I simply need to back off.
October 28, 2020