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

Work oddly became a visceral struggle for me, though the issue is arguably small in impact/scale. My office is trying to create a virtual "holiday" gathering. I'm doing my best to walk-back "holiday" in recognition of how many that leaves out (Diwali was early last month, Ramadan is in summer, etc.) and how symbols of Christianity generally pervade despite people's efforts to try and keep things "diverse." Coordination around this event is BAD, things are being thrust upon me in the 11th hour, and I worry about being associated with poorly-designed material; I'm partly a professional event coordinator, after all, and this could reflect poorly on me. And then there's the double-speak from my employer about internet and winter weather. If in-person classes are cancelled due to bad weather, then so too are online courses. Staff who have been telecommuting during the pandemic will be expected to work during the bad weather, because they can work from home. The cognitive dissonance here astounds me. I almost don't care which way it goes, but something needs to get balanced out here.