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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Earlier this week I took my camera and met up with my girlfriend at riverside park in New York. She bought a new polaroid camera and was excited to use it. We ate pizza at the park and it was surprisingly empty. We took lots of pictures of each other until this photo stood out to me because I loved the fact that her camera, sweater and bag all matched with each other. Another is that I get to keep these types of pictures and later in the future, look back at them and remember these times.
November 17, 2020
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Is the pandemic affecting any small businesses you know well? If so, tell us how.
The pandemic has affected my husband's art business. He is a professional aritist and we own a small art gallery in a storefront on the first floor of our building We live above the art gallery. He displays his art there and sells prints and paintings from there. Since March 19 he has been closed. He sold one or two prints since then. One print was sold after he did a Zoom tour of the gallery. A participant called to ask if she could come to the gallery and see the work. We allowed her, and her husband a short visit, with masks. We opened the doors and let air circulate. The other print was sold to an acquaintance who happened to park in from of the bundling just as I was exiting the house I invited her in, for a brief period, with her mask on and she decided to purchase the piece of art. He usually opens the gallery on Saturdays for visitors and music performances, with neighbors and friends coming by to play music. This can't happen until the Covid is over.
December 23, 2020