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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
9:00am Tuesday before Thanksgiving: I drove to get a nasal swab PCR test before hosting family, including my nearly 96 year old mother in law for Thanksgiving. The testing site was by appointment only, and still there was a line of cars. But it moved quickly. My husband and twenty-something kids also got tests before we all gathered for the holiday. We all got "negative" results and felt more comfortable in hugging, eating and just plain being together. It was wonderful to have a "normal" Thanksgiving after last year's holiday and all the other missed occasions. (And I've been tuning out the news of a new variant out of S. Africa.... I feel like I just can't deal with this pandemic continuing.....)
December 1, 2021
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Think about the people closest to you. Tell us about how the coronavirus has affected them, and their life.
People around became suddenly more anxious with the pandemic. Some of them just open up and started to confine in me as the others just became withdrawn. Also in my family, we have the feeling that we've seen each other too much because we've lived together for more than a year without a single real break. There is an oppressive atmosphere at home we're not able to delete as we can't get out, hang up with people, see other things now.
March 26, 2021