Coronavirus - An Audio Journal Jacqueline

We're starting to hear about immunity passports, I believe these will become a more popular topic fo conversation as time goes. Many countries are no longer looking at Coronavirus health and economic responses as separate and the view may be shifting to number of life years lost instead of number of lives lost as countries around the world are starting the great "return to work".  My mental health has been very challenged. I've been trying to figure out how to manage with these overwhelming feelings of hopelessness. 

This is starting to feel like a mental health diary. I wanted to record the Harvard Business Review "The Discomfort You're Feeling is Grief" article.

I made an extremely hard decision this past weekend, I decided to come home to Canada. Fears for my physical and mental health were significantly growing and I felt like NYC was not a safe place for me to be any longer. 

This past Friday I took a walk and recorded some audio of what I saw. Packed parks, people playing basketball, and the NYC classic of someone cutting you off on the sideway. All of those would be fine if we weren't supposed to be social distancing. The walk ended on a high note as I returned home to the magical moment of fire escape applause for the front line workers of this pandemic.

The US is now the country with the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the world. The biggest question in America seems to be around what's more important? Saving lives or saving the US economy? I terms of how I feel, this morning was the darkest morning I've had all week.  All week I've been feeling a concerning level of  "OK", I knew I'd come crashing down, and this morning I did. 

Today I spoke with my friend Kaye who is currently living in France with her wife and their dog Stanley. She told me how things feel in France, the severe restrictions they're living under (which if disobeyed could result in 6 months jail time) and we went deep into how this is impacting our mental health.