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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
For the first time in a very long time, felt comfortable.enough to drive out of state and to be honest it was a nice change of scenery. After two years being in the home, the long drive and new faces and seeing the difference and similarities in another state was refreshing. Everyone in Massachusetts seemed much more serious about keeping masks on than what I've seen in CT. The school situation continues to be scary as I have 5 children in 4 different schools and the rise in cases continues to increase. Covid has added so much more stress to our daily lives. Maintaining a positive attitude can sometimes be challenging as so many lives are being negatively affected by this disease.
February 5, 2022
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What has changed most about the world since the pandemic began?
Since last March, the world has had the harshest light yet shown on global health inequity. As frustrated as I am not to have been vaccinated by my HMO, Kaiser, which covers 20% of California's population, there are Brazilians, South Asians, and Mexicans who should get the vaccine before me. When I was a kid growing up in DC, I loved my country. I was raised to believe in government. I still do, but what a beating my faith has taken. Trump took a battering ram to public health and left unprincipled governors to let their people die. It's this moral injury that is a pox on top of depression and anxiety, something that no anti-depressant can treat, like the final straw in the loss of one's innocence. I can go without stuff. And I don't get food, restaurant or groceries, delivered here, for lots of reasons. If a friend comes over I now to push myself to behave well, to smile, and nod, and listen, and respond appropriately, because this isolation is eroding these skills.
March 24, 2021