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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Had a discussion with my boyfriend,VA, today about how covid has affected us over the past year and I realized that we live in 2 completely opposite worlds. I live in a world where I am an essential worker. I have worked through the entire pandemic treating patients in person and virtually. I have had to deal with the emotional burden of patients losing family members, and wondering every day if I would get the virus and bring it home to VA. He has lived in a world where his company shut down immediately and started working from home. He transitioned teams several months in and have never met his coworkers face to face. His days are lonely but at least our dog keeps him company.
March 26, 2021
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What was the biggest news story this past week -- either in your community, nationally, or globally?
Can I pick one? The biggest nationally are the Congressional battle over the Covid Relief package--the Republicans are trying to shaft moderate income Americans with lower stimulus checks gauged to lower income maximums, and so far the Democrats are only doing so much to work around them, and the forthcoming impeachments, where the Democrats are pressing on, the Republicans are getting "cold feet" and DT's lawyers just quite on him. Just today, Pete Buttigieg was confirmed as Secretary of Transportationmaking history as the first openly gay cabinet member. But most hopefully, the Biden administration is "upping its game" in getting those vaccines distributed, and closer to home, North Carolina has gone from having one of the lowest to one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. Not that the last is going to terribly speed things up for me personally, though it should certainly help.
February 5, 2021