Thank you for asking!
Your situation sounds so hard! We have never had that kind of serious lockdown in the part of Canada where I live.
I also have not personally lost anyone to covid, though I do know people who have had it, and I have friends in countries that have been very hard hit, like India and Brazil.
But even here it has still been very disruptive. I had to learn to do my job on line. Ordinary daily interactions became forbidden or filled with fear. The pandemic got into our dreams.
I am not yet convinced that the more drastic requirements or requests for distancing and isolation were justified. Although good for our physical health, they have been terrible for a lot of people's mental health.
The "messaging" from governments and public health authorities has often been confusing to the point where it feels like "gaslighting". Masks are the best example: at first we were told not to wear them because (confusingly) they a) wouldn't do any good and b) were needed by health care professionals. Then we were told that any kind of face covering would protect other people. Eventually we were told they would protect us too, but by then there were also various rules about how the masks should be made; I lost track at some point.
Our federal government has displayed characteristic hypocrisy by buying up vast supplies of vaccines, including some that were supposedly set aside for poorer countries, and NOT doing much at all to get vaccines to people in poorer countries. Of course this means the virus will continue to mutate in other parts of the world and all those variants will end up killing people here as well.
And it is depressing that this whole thing seems to be far from over!!
I hope you and yours get through it all OK.
