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Covid-19 has affected me and many others like me very drastically. I lost a lot of my motivation during Covid and it still is going on today. I really have tried to be as interactive as possible with Covid as I could, but its really hard trying to get back in to normal habits. I used to be very disciplined at least I would like to think I was. But after going, I really stopped caring. For better or for worse I just lost a lot of motivation because of it. Covid hit me extremally hard compared to other people I know. A lot of people Covid didn't even affect them at all. But during that time I struggled a lot with managing my work and things of that sorts. It still effects me today because I still have extremally lazy work patterns and its hard for me to fix it. I have always tried to become a better person but it still affects me today. I've improved a lot though because of covid as well, mentally speaking. I've change drastically from who I was only 2 years ago. I feel like I have matured more because of this whole situation and I wouldn't change anything about it.

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As much as I love hanging out with my friends I love hanging out with my sister

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I love hanging out with my friends

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I have always loved music and recently I've started buying records and decor for my room

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I have recently become very interested with fashion clothes and shoes

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I still do this today because I always think people will think I'm sick 😂

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The louder you play
The more heart they hear in you
The more they listen

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This is only absurd to me because the amount of money used in this purchase, $44 Billion dollars is a Ludacris amount of money being spent on a social media app

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It's becoming quite clear that Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter Inc., at least not at the price he negotiated. But Twitter should not walk away without at least $1 billion - and potentially much more - for the trouble.

Musk's bid for Twitter has become one of the strangest M&A sagas Silicon Valley has ever seen. Here's a quick recap: Musk bought some Twitter stock, agreed to be on the board, rescinded that agreement and made a bid to buy the company and take it private, and that bid was accepted. However, as stock prices have plunged in the overall market downturn, Musk has obviously suffered from buyer's remorse and is saying that the deal is "on hold."

One problem with that move is that it doesn't exist.

"There is no procedural step in the closing of a company that is called 'deal on hold,' there is 'no deal on hold' built into the agreement," said Stephen Diamond, associate professor at Santa Clara University School of Law.

It is sometimes hard to ascertain what is true when dealing with Tesla Inc.'s chief executive, but one really obvious thing is true in this case: The two sides have a contract and it is legally enforceable. Musk is fishing for reasons he could back out of paying $44 billion for a company that would be lucky to trade for half that valuation without the bid - and is trading nearly 30% lower even with it - but likely hoping to avoid a $1 billion breakup fee that is part of the contract.

"Getting cold feet is no sufficient basis to withdraw....so presumably at this point if he really wanted out he would have said so, and they would demand the breakup fee," Diamond said, adding that most of what Musk has been engaged in of late is noise "to find some leverage to renegotiate the deal."

That noise has centered on the number of bot accounts on Twitter, which Musk believes exceeds the 5% amount that Twitter carefully claims in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk claimed over the weekend, without providing any evidence, that bots actually account for anywhere between 20% and 90% of Twitter users.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal showed Musk how to use actual evidence and knowledge of the inner workings of social media in discussing bots on Twitter after Musk made a bunch of noise. Musk, in response, sent Agrawal a poop emoji, showing exactly the level of discourse he is able to have on the subject.

If all this seems to you like something that should have been hashed out in the due-diligence portion of the deal-making process, you're not wrong. However, Musk waived his right to perform due diligence on Twitter before signing the deal, as outlined in Twitter's SEC filing detailing the run-up to the acquisition that was filed Tuesday morning.

"Mr. Musk also disclosed that his acquisition proposal was no longer subject to the completion of financing and business due diligence," Twitter stated in its recap of how the deal went down.

Musk is also not learning about bots on Twitter for the first time. As Diamond noted, Musk talked about solving the bot issue as one reason he was buying Twitter in the news release announcing the deal.

"Isn't the whole point of him buying it to make it better, so he could improve it?" Diamond asked.

It might be helpful to recap again here, and use a metaphor. What Musk has done is akin to a normal person agreeing to waive all inspection contingencies in order to buy a house, signing a contract on the house while publicly proclaiming "I'm going to fix this place up from the dump it is now," then deciding during the closing period that the house is too much of a dump and demanding to be let out of the contract while personally attacking the seller.

So what should Twitter do about Musk? Let me ask you what you would do as the selling homeowner in that situation: Let the buyer walk, sell the house to the buyer at a discounted rate, or hold the buyer's feet to the fire and get every cent guaranteed in the contract both of you signed?

For Twitter's board and its executives, they have to continue forward with the deal as agreed upon, and they have to ignore Musk's actions, which may be crossing some legal lines, until they can close a deal. At the very least, Musk should have to pay $1 billion if he is found in breach of failing to close the deal.

In addition, since his recent actions on Twitter could potentially be considered as disparaging the company, which he agreed not to do when he signed the merger agreement, he could eventually be subject to further legal action by Twitter.

"They don't want to sue this guy, they want to sell the company," Diamond said. "At the end of the day, what value are those sorts of lawsuits? They will focus on moving ahead with the deal as agreed, and that's it, and let Musk try to find some leeway to renegotiate the price."

And the board could seek to do much more than that. If Twitter holds up its end of the bargain and Musk does not, the board could sue him for "specific performance," which would force him to go through with the acquisition as specified in the contract, if successful. While that is unlikely and would likely lead to a long and arduous legal fight, the threat of it could lead to a settlement of more than the $1 billion it seems obvious Musk would owe in this situation. Diamond noted, though, that the addition of the specific performance clause, which is slightly rare, is an indication that Twitter was aware Musk could behave in this manner.

The Twitter board owes its shareholders every cent it can pull out of the pockets of the world's richest man after what he has put the company, its investors and its employees through in the past month. It is their fiduciary duty to do so, and Musk has given them every reason to stand strong against him.

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Elon Musk doesn't want to buy Twitter anymore, but Twitter should make him pay for it

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It's becoming quite clear that Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter Inc., at least not at the price he negotiated. But Twitter should not walk away without at least $1 billion - and potentially much more - for the trouble.

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Since the decrease of Covid-19, we have all been able to move around more and regain the normality of the past. It really is amazing that its starting to end!

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New COVID-19 cases, as well as deaths and hospitalizations, continue to decline in the United States.

Experts say this trend could stifle a resurgence of COVID-19 cases this summer.

They say the United States' vaccination rate and the number of cases here during the Omicron have built up a healthy level of immunity.

They warn, however, that a new variant, such as BA.2, could fuel another surge.

The United States could be heading toward its most "normal" summer in years as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wane nationally.

Daily new cases of COVID-19 infection have steadily declined, dropping to a seven-day average of less than 27,000 during the first week of April compared to a peak of more than 800,000 in mid-January at the height of the Omicron surge.

There are now fewer than 13,000 people hospitalized nationwide with COVID-19, compared to nearly 140,000 in mid-January.

The daily death rate from COVID-19 has fallen to below 500, compared to more than 3,000 in early February.

"We've come a long way in terms of cases and deaths," said Dr. David Dowdy, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. "The number of people in the hospital is at the lowest point since the beginning of the first wave of COVID-19 in March 2020. Deaths are almost at the lowest point and are still falling, with the number being cut in half about every two weeks."

"I'm not saying we're done with COVID, but we certainly continue to move the numbers in the right direction," Dowdy told Healthline. "If I had to place a bet, I do expect to see the trend line continue. In the U.S., I think this summer will be much better than the last two."

That prediction is supported by the fact the United States is enjoying a particularly high level of immunity against COVID-19 at the moment.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 82 percent of Americans over age 5 have had at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, with almost 70 percent considered fully vaccinated. Of the latter, about half have also received at least one vaccine booster shot.

In addition, with the widespread infections with the highly contagious Omicron variant, Dowdy estimates that upward of 95 percent of people in the United States have some degree of natural immunity against COVID-19.

"Most unvaccinated people have been infected already," he noted.

Dr. Tammy Lundstrom, an infectious disease specialist and chief medical officer at Trinity Health, agrees.

"Omicron ran out of fuel [of] non-immune people to infect," she told Healthline.

Despite the encouraging numbers, experts stress that there's no guarantee that another COVID-19 surge won't occur.

The BA.2 subvariant of Omicron, for example, has recently become the dominant strain of the disease in the United States and has been linked to a slight uptick in cases in the Northeast.

"We're currently seeing increases in the proportions of cases that are attributed to BA.2 variant of Omicron," Daniel Parker, Ph.D., an assistant professor of population health and disease prevention at the University of California Irvine's Program in Public Health, told Healthline. "Whether or not this means we will soon have another surge of cases is hard to predict. This variant is highly transmissible, but it is also closely related to the other Omicron variants, which drove our very recent surge."

Dr. Thomas Kenyon, chief health officer at Project Hope and former head of the CDC's Center for Global Health, noted that COVID-19 is still killing almost 500 Americans daily.

"Though we may be in a lull in the pandemic at the moment, we need to continue to be vigilant having learned the hard way that the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic can rapidly change," Kenyon told Healthline.

As COVID-19 slowly transitions from a global pandemic to an endemic disease like influenza, new variants are likely to emerge periodically, resulting in the need for renewed public-health campaigns, experts said.

This could perhaps include steps such as reinstating mask mandates and physical distancing requirements now being relaxed across the country.

"As we are seeing now in the U.K. and parts of Asia, the BA.2 sub-variant of Omicron poses a risk for further spikes in transmission in the U.S.," Dr. David Margolis, the vice president and head of infectious diseases at Brii Biosciences, told Healthline. "We are likely to continue to see a low but steady baseline transmission rate marked by variable surges for many months, if not years to come."

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Why COVID-19 Cases May Continue to Decline in U.S.

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New COVID-19 cases, as well as deaths and hospitalizations, continue to decline in the United States. Experts say this trend could stifle a resurgence of COVID-19 cases this summer. They say the United States' vaccination rate and the number of cases here during the Omicron have built up a healthy level of immunity.

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Breaking bad is easily my favorite show ever. It depicts very gruesome topics and is very intriguing.

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I might get back into piano, recently I've picked up interests inside of hobby's again recently. I've also been looking into reading, I haven't necessarily found my own hobby, yet at least. I have always been looking too find my own hobby but I always don't commit to it. I have never had the feel to commit to something at least yet. Every time I attempt to I always drop it within the first few weeks or months. The only acceptation to that was piano, I had taken it throughout the sixth grade and had dropped it after. I wanted to take study hall during seventh and this year. I might retake this class because I genuinely used to enjoy it. I don't if today I still will enjoy this though because I have change a lot mentally and my personality. I probably will pick it back up soon enough like around in a few months. Another hobby that has peaked my interest is reading, recently I've been suggested books to read and I think I'm going to read them. I trust their choices because they read a lot and I have known them for a decent while.

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I think everyone including myself felt like 2020 was terrible . it brought out the worst habits for everyone 😂

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I have been watching many new tv shows and the newest one and one of my favorites now is Moon Knight

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This song for me has been on repeat for a long time because of my parents. My parents would listen to alot of music as i was growing up and this is one of the songs.

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Since 6th grade my life has changed drastically, I haven’t felt more in tune with myself in years. I used to neglect my emotions years before but embracing them for as they are is just best. being comfortable with your own persons is a very accomplishing feat. most people cant bare themselves and wish for change, it took me a long time to become a better person to myself. we neglect ourselves at least I did, some of us think helping others will help ourselves, which it doesn’t. bettering your own persons is the only way to see self improvement. We must put ourselves first to see improvement in mental health. personally to work on my mental health exercise was a option for me. I disliked how my body looked and wanted to improve on that during summer. Which I have dropped around 40 pounds since which is amazing. It took me a long time to even begin to be comfortable with my body, I am to a certain extent. I will continue working out even though recently I have been on and off with it, I will never drop it.