How Has the Coronavirus Affected You?
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There was fear, of being unable to obtain enough groceries & necessities but I currently've 2 months worth, of toilet paper. I've enough food, for a month but food insecurity might be an issue, if the panic buying continues into next month.
I hope that the hoarders're done shopping & don't return for 2nd year's worth when stores replenish their stock, to give the remainder of us an opportunity to reasonably shop.8 -
I plan to cancel all plans with any beneficial friends, as spreading germs is not a great idea right now.
Kidding/Not kidding. 🤷♀️3 -
GettinLean19 wrote: »GettinLean19 wrote: »It’s really chapped my *kitten*
Literally
Oh god..
Just summarizing what 70% of the comments will be 😁
😂😂😂 I'm glad to see someone with humor in this app. Too many serious nut jobs here lol
Whaaat! People are great here4 -
Except for limiting my social plans because everything is being closed/cancelled, the only thing that I do differently is I'm using a lot more cough drops. It's Spring. I am allergic to Spring. I am congested and coughy but people freak out when you cough any where.2
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i went to the grocery on my way to work today to get broccoli for my lunch and the place was a fn madhouse.2
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Not at all personally but I am worried about my 80 yr old father getting the virus since he's in the demographic where it tends to be deadly. I rarely get sick so I'd be one of those people who carries it around, asymptomatic, and I'm the person he has most contact with. There are no confirmed cases in my city at this time.
Work from home isn't possible in my job, I don't have kids, so there's very little impact right now. Other than trying to buy normal things like kleenex and finding that they're a popular hoarding item so I can't get them.6 -
There’s a lot going on that affects me personally. Primer: I live in Finland.
The first confirmed virus infection in my city is with a person who goes to the same gym I go to (or should go, now I’m thinking it was a smart move to be lazy and skip last couple of weeks). I appreciate the gym chain’s response to close all of their locations in 4 different countries for two weeks, but it also means I don’t have gym access. My husband’s employer ordered him to self-isolation and remote work because he’s not lazy and had been at the gym the same day as the infected person, so I have to deal with him being super upset and mad at everything because he’s stuck home and he’s also missing out on social events that are cancelled.
Most of the social events in my calendar are cancelled or rescheduled, including at least one trip abroad. All hobby and volunteer organizations I’m active in have suspended their programs and events.
I have several friends who don’t have a very stable job situation, or have their hours cut severely due to said event suspensions as they work in fields related to event services. Being a lawyer, I have spent a good part of my day today answering my friends’ questions about their questions regarding their rights regarding employment and wages
I have to deal with the epidemic and how it affects my workplace, on top of my regular duties. This includes cancelling and rescheduling events and meetings, updating staff on our policies and instructions, taking care of office hygiene, making sure everything runs smoothly when people work remotely, monitoring the situation and news outlets for any new official information or limitations, and at the same time prepare the backup plan for layoffs and cutting hours if the financial situation blows up. I also have a few colleagues currently abroad (for varying reasons) in countries that just announced border closures, so now I might have to figure out if we can get them back to the country, what kind of quarantines they are facing etc.
The skin on my hands is starting to crack and bleed because it dries up and can’t handle this much soap. I’m guessing getting the virus on cracked skin isn’t exactly helping either, so I have to find some kind of balance between hand-washing and keeping my skin intact.
To top this off, today is the day I found out my dishwasher water valve is so fancy it requires a battery to operate. The valve has been there for 5 years, and the battery died today. It’s not a regular battery, my husband made a late-night run to a specific store to get a new battery, and the one he bought was a dud. Now we don’t have a working dishwasher (because we can’t get water in it without the valve), have to leave home again tomorrow to try to find a working battery, and this is a pain in the *kitten*. Why today, of all days within the last 5 years?? (I don’t know if the dishwasher water valve is a thing elsewhere, but at least here all dishwashers and laundry machines have to have a water valve that is closed when the machine is not in use and especially if you aren’t home, otherwise you are pretty much guaranteed to not have home insurance coverage for water damages).7 -
Working in retail it has sucked *kitten*!7
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This AM work cancelled an event 2yrs in the making. Management that toiled over it are crushed. Most of my work this week has been for nothing, such is life. There's a rumour we might shut down for the month which would mean mass lay offs but whatever is, is.4
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Effecting every aspect plus my city was the first in Texas to have a oopsie (Let a positive patient go Mall shopping thank you CDC). All my family is in effected spots. In Alvin Tx no meat 🥩 so my kids godmom has no meat 🥩. My hubby drove 2hours away looking for supplies my mother-in-law to we needed. Took him 5hours he hit every store on the way got what he could find. A bag of baby wipes alcohol free for a baby (2 types of severe skin condition has to contain no alcohol).2hours away was diapers. His family didn’t believe him until they went out. He managed to get some of this y that so if need be we’re okay for a month. My Dad in a tiny country town in Texas said the big chains were out of bleach y tp. He got lucky found it at a tiny mom y pop store .
We been asked by the mayor y Govenor to stay inside please only go out for work y needs. So abiding by that been a month now so bored! Just bored 😐! Baby misses Chuckie cheese y McDonald’s. Hubby y me miss Starbucks to grabbing a quick bite. Some areas the Online sites are running out or low mines one of them now. Sent god mom a meat site y veggie delivery by mail to try as an avenue.
Family events like poor cousins graduation cancelled (cooking school to be a chef 👩🍳 Austin Texas was supposed to host it). Can’t see family as much which is hard cause they are terrible at answering the phone 📱 or emailing back to begin with.
Got blossoms on the orange tree again some oranges 🍊 left so excited for when their ready to pick size wise. Baby loving playing in the backyard blessed to have one.
More restaurants delivering is nice haven’t used yet but might. Ordered from eBay some stuff for baby 👶 from a pharmacy in a town I used to live. Who knows may have gone to school with them back in the day. So diaper like washable inserts to potty train with on the way.
Watched neighbors ,cleaned house,did the census online why not, eating cake y watching ghost hunters cause bored 😑 . Worry wart yesterday became a trying to laugh through the tears day. Today felt happy no reason weighed in lost more weight!! Yes!! Diets working! Got our home gym cleaned off. Baby 👶 going to celebrate birthday with only grandpa y us tomorrow so happy day! Birthday party was called off a month ago so only grandpa. My Daughter texted from the Nacy base still safe y good she found her cousin I raised he said the others I raised good healthy still even the grandkids. So calming to know.
Just looking for silver linings getting through what ever comes our way.
Staying strong for the family. Going to get through this . Might start reading old books in the garage or babies books next.Gots some fun pop up books lol 😂
Watching folks disagree with simple posts like
“Went to work today”
Disagree!! Like they stalkin them lol 😂. You didn’t go to work I been watching vibes3 -
Motorsheen wrote: »I just went to the grocery store.
I didn't even need to buy anything.
I just went to 'hit on' all of the panicked housewives.
That was you? Usually a hump back, fetid breath and an eye twitch put me off...but you had game!
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GettinLean19 wrote: »GettinLean19 wrote: »GettinLean19 wrote: »It’s really chapped my *kitten*
Literally
Oh god..
Just summarizing what 70% of the comments will be 😁
😂😂😂 I'm glad to see someone with humor in this app. Too many serious nut jobs here lol
Whaaat! People are great here
Not in my experience but it gets better overtime2 -
The only concrete way it’s affected me is they cancelled high school basketball state tournament. I don’t have anyone playing, I’m just a fan and would have gone to some games.
Emotionally, this is the first time I’ve been old enough and my health is questionable enough that I’m worried about ME and not some older relative or baby or small child.5 -
Everything in public is closed and eventually much else. Strange to drive through the big city on a Friday night without any life in the city. For myself, it has the effect that the kids a home. Then in a week, Corona has 2 more on conscience
Otherwise, we can not train in the fitness center either. But what the heck, can't we buy the t-shirt on the other side ?? 1 -
It’ll be interesting to see this thread change over time as more people are affected. It’s like a time capsule journal thing5
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A few schools have closed where I am, a few big events as well (I'm down in southern AZ as well). I haven't been out in a few days, as I and one of my adult kids are both in the 'higher risk' category and, since we don't work outside the home, decided to just get 2-4 weeks of stuff and hunker down.
So I haven't seen what the shelves are like, although even a week ago, you could start seeing less quantity of some items on the shelves (like tomatoes - last week Walmart was running out of tomatoes and oiling the outsides of the tomatoes they had left, to keep them fresh longer).
I'm worried for my family. My brother works in a restaurant. My favorite aunt is in a nursing home (in CA), as well as lots of other family. My dad just got over pneumonia this winter, and isn't bothering with changing anything he's doing. My 21 year old kid has half a dozen diseases, and I'm really scared for her.
I am trying to garden more this year, with the expectation that I might really be thankful for that, if things got REALLY bad. And if they don't? I have fun gardening, anyway.
I look at Italy and what has happened there, with the 2nd ranked healthcare system out of 191 countries (when WHO ranked them). And I look at the USA, with the 37th, literally the lowest of all industrialized nations. And I think that what's happening in Italy is not as unlikely to happen in the USA as I would hope.
I worry about all the people who are going to be REALLY struggling, as their jobs and income are gone.
So...there is a lot of worry, and fear. Not panic, but especially after seeing the way our gov't has responded to this, I'm was not feeling hopeful.
But then today, I started getting emails from local businesses. My power company, my bank, etc... And THEY are all trying to help. Telling me what they are doing to try and protect employees, suggestions for ways to use their services that won't put me or their employees at greater risk, giving encouraging messages of trying to get through this together.
And...it reminded me that one of the things that's affecting me is a real feeling of community, too. Yeah, there's panicked buying by some. Some folks are honestly awful. But there's also people voluntarily giving up things they like to do, or want to do, just to protect others in their community, even if it has to be instigated by local people rather than at a national level. And that's actually been a nice reminder of some of the awesome things about humanity too...which I really, really needed today!
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You mean aside from inconveniencing literally every tiny little aspect of my life, and annoying me to the max?
Absolutely nothing.
This whole thing is asinine. Schools statewide (Wisconsin) closed for 3 weeks? Daycares are next? Then what, parents are forced to stay home from work and the entire economy collapses?
Not to mention, all of the sheep that are following the crowd and panic buying. The rest of us rational people would like to buy non perishable food and wipe our butts, too, thanks.
Awesome.
It's all being blown way out of proportion, in my opinion.5 -
We are taking advantage of schools being cancelled and us having to telework and we renting a house at the beach for the week after next. So I’ll hopefully be working beachside! When life gives you lemons make some vodka tonics on the beach.7
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Midolmel1971- Oh the beach sounds beautiful for a working environment! Have fun at the beach you deserve it! I’m going to dream about the beach now.0
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brittanystebbins95 wrote: »It's all being blown way out of proportion, in my opinion.
I don't know if it's being blown out of proportion or not.
The fatality rate is rather low....... but it's pretty damn high if you or a loved one is the fatality.
In our state, we have had 9 confirmed cases and zero deaths. Not exactly cause to panic.
At this point, we don't know how wide spread this thing really is & yeah, the economy has taken a gut punch.
Will the economy recover? It always does, although this will have an affect on consumerism for a very long time to come.
To the point of folks stockpiling goods, I agree. I went to Costco just to buy coffee & the way people were acting was insane.6 -
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Motorsheen wrote: »I just went to the grocery store.
I didn't even need to buy anything.
I just went to 'hit on' all of the panicked housewives.
i'm sure they were comforted by your concern
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Was given some work equipment to take home, just in case I'm needed to work at home instead of in the office.4
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Motorsheen wrote: »brittanystebbins95 wrote: »It's all being blown way out of proportion, in my opinion.
I don't know if it's being blown out of proportion or not.
The fatality rate is rather low....... but it's pretty damn high if you or a loved one is the fatality.
In our state, we have had 9 confirmed cases and zero deaths. Not exactly cause to panic.
At this point, we don't know how wide spread this thing really is & yeah, the economy has taken a gut punch.
Will the economy recover? It always does, although this will have an affect on consumerism for a very long time to come.
To the point of folks stockpiling goods, I agree. I went to Costco just to buy coffee & the way people were acting was insane.
I wasn't too worried about it but I'm starting to be. There are more and more cases where I live, they are all from people who traveled. Alot of people won't die from it but for people like me with cancer and a very low immune system it kind of freaks me out a little.18 -
We are shutting ourselves up at home right now. All the schools in our state are shut down for the next 3 weeks, and my husband can work from home, thankfully. 2 of my 3 kids are sick with what I suspect is very possibly Covid 19, but not severely affected enough for us to go to ER. Hopefully we can just ride it out. So far they have only 12 confirmed cases in my state, but my gut feeling is that many, many people have already had this virus (or have it right now) and just haven't been severely sick enough to get tested. We have basically been told over and over that even if you think you have it, you aren't going to be tested unless you start having breathing issues, so just stay at home. Which I get, since they don't have enough tests available and we don't want to clog up ERs anyway. But seems really inefficient at actually tracking the disease spread.5
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Thankfully it hasn't really. I make a point to stay the *kitten* away from the type of people who panic buy toilet paper in response to a respiratory virus.
My kid has a 3 week long March break, half of which she'll spend at her dads. The rest of it we have flexible schedules so it's no big deal.
We hunt, fish and grow a lot of our food and I usually grocery shop for the rest once per month, which was done before people started losing their minds.
I work in healthcare so life is continuing as normal for me.3 -
March 14th: The panic buying continues. Most cases in our state that have been tested have come back negative, but the government and military in the area has already ramped up its efforts at "combating" the illness.
Schools haven't closed (yet), but there is no toilet paper or hand sanitizer to be found, our open air events are being heavily monitored with disinfectants and sanitizer. DoD has officially sent out a memorandum restricting travel for anything non-essential. It applies to both the active duty and their dependents.
I'm steadfastly in camp "be prepared, but not crazy". I did not panic buy any supplies, but we have enough through regular purchases to get by for a few weeks. That's the nice bit about living in a hurricane state; you're already somewhat prepared (if you're smart about it).
I continue to monitor the process as it happens.3 -
All I know that in addition to TP, people in my town are apparently hoarding bananas. I’ve been to 4 stores looking for them and they are wiped out and it’s annoying. People need to calm down.3
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midlomel1971 wrote: »All I know that in addition to TP, people in my town are apparently hoarding bananas. I’ve been to 4 stores looking for them and they are wiped out and it’s annoying. People need to calm down.
I won't lie: I bought one bunch Thursday when I went shopping because mmmm, bananas. But there were plenty when I was there.
Tortillas and bread are gone now in addition to hand sanitizer, counter disinfectants and toilet paper.2 -
Bananas 🍌- Some folks freeze them use them in protein shakes to bannana nut breads. Guess that’s what they want to live off if for the next year. Hubby said someone had a cart 🛒 full lol 😂 of Baking mix to nuts probably got bananas 🍌 next.0
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