Pandemic Social Life, One Year In - The New York Times - 0 views
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One Year Together, Apart
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In the year since the pandemic began, people learned to be together while apart and navigated the pain of feeling apart while together
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In doing so, they rediscovered each other, and experienced the joys of bonding and the suffocation of constant proximity.
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In some instances, these revelations were not happy ones: lawyers and mediators saw a spike in clients looking to divorce as soon as courts reopened.
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Engagements and pregnancy announcements seemed to pop up constantly on social media. And there were plenty of weddings.
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Inside nursing homes, Covid-19 outbreaks became all too regular, with more than 163,000 residents and workers dying of the virus.
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Those who continued working had to balance the demands of their jobs with domestic chores, child care and online schooling, putting strain on their mental health.
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Young people around the world, cut off from their usual social lives, faced a “mental health pandemic.”
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Doctors and nurses agonized over putting their families at risk, and dealt with intense burnout and pay cuts.
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Some said that being characterized as heroes by the public left them little room to express vulnerability.
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in this case, the enemy claimed more Americans than World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined
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If you’re wondering what comes after, we are, too.Are you anxious that things will never be the same? Or are you fearful that we’ll return to “the same” much too quickly? Or maybe there is something seemingly small that you will cherish being able to do?