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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

Anxiety seems higher as cases, hospitalizations, and deaths surge. We stay home almost all the time and mask/distance when we do have to go out and I am still anxious about being exposed. I started tracking daily cases/deaths (USA, state, and county) in my planner a few months ago. I absorb information best when I am able to write it down and it's been a way to try to just take a moment and pay attention to the suffering and loss in that simple act. The reality is sometimes too big or hard to really understand, though; my own family has had only one very mild case in mid-summer and we have been lucky that all working family members are in essential worker positions (nurse, CNA, airport security), able to work from home (tech field), or in the military. The rest of us are retired. Every single one of us has some kind of co-morbidity or are in a "vulnerable" group. Our family has been very, very lucky...but I am still waiting on that shoe to drop when one of us isn't so fortunate.