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and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, and for many of us, the pandemic

has been so unbelievably disruptive economically or financially or even health-wise.

I know several people who have died of coronavirus over this last year.

I know others who are what are referred to as long haulers that continue to have symptoms

preventing a full recovery from having had coronavirus. I know yet others who coronavirus

hit them personally, but not hard at all. You, Christa, had coronavirus as did your

whole family three months ago. In December.

In December. Of the four of you, your two kids, your husband and you, none of you really

had it bad, didn't you?

We were very fortunate. You had one symptom list, two minor symptoms,

and you were the one with a little bit more?

Well, none of us luckily didn't go into our chest. We didn't have any respiratory issues

really. I lost my taste and smell for a week, and I was exhausted. I'm blaming my current

inability to remember things on it, but I don't know if I'm a long hauler if that's

just me. But yeah, we were fortunate. Maybe you worked too much and you got to know

well.

No, never. I love my job.

People who have not had the health problems or the financial problems, a lot of people have

had psychological issues from coronavirus. The isolation, think about how tough this has

been for kids. Thank goodness. Now, 75, 80% of kids are back in the classroom. We have access

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