Beginning in March 2020, I started monthly diary entries about life under COVID-19. With the pandemic functionally over in New England, yesterday was the last entry. Here’s a thread of the month-by-month emotional reactions:
March 2020: fear and anger. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
March 2020: fear and anger. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
April 2020: anger and loathing. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
May 2020: frustration and caprice. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
June 2020: sheer exhaustion. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
July 2020: fatalism and vertigo. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
August 2020: interdependence and stasis. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
September 2020: anger and atonement. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
October 2020: depression and isolation. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1…
November 2020: hope and darkness. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1…
December 2020: the horrors of adaptation. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1…
January 2021: detachment and exposure. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
February 2021: hope and trauma. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
March 2021: impatience and habit. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
April 2021: limbo and anticipation. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
May 2021: loss and gain. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
June 2021: beginnings and endings. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
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