How Has the Coronavirus Affected You?

AquaMeow
AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
Let me know how the Coronavirus is affecting you and your loved ones. With no school and many events canceled how are you deal with it? Also be sure not to panic.
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  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
    It’s really chapped my *kitten*

    Literally
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    It’s really chapped my *kitten*

    Literally

    Oh god..
  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
    AquaMeow wrote: »
    It’s really chapped my *kitten*

    Literally

    Oh god..

    Just summarizing what 70% of the comments will be 😁
  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
    Tbh not much happening here. Nothing is shut down, no shortages of anything, there’s just some talk about extending spring break two weeks
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    Our first confirmed case came up sometime between yesterday and today. Panic already set in and all the toilet paper in almost all the stores around here has been bought out as well as all the disinfectants and wipes. Chicken was also surprisingly gone as well as tortillas and brioche bread. People are panicking and buying up random things, meanwhile the things I think you'd stock up on (pain meds and Kleenex) were still on the shelf.

    Toilet-papergate has happened, people.

    Mostly, I am concerned for some of my older relatives who live in higher population areas with more cases. My MIL who has issues even with minor infections most of us shrug off (she has a severe medical condition that complicates those kinds of things).

    Otherwise, the area around here hasn't changed. A lot of the places I have rewards points or get letters from have issued general statements about how they plan to combat it with disinfectants and keeping on top of hygiene. One or two events have been rescheduled for later, but not cancelled. Just general preventative stuff.

  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    It has taken away all the sports and the wagering that goes along with that.
  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
    spade117 wrote: »
    It has taken away all the sports and the wagering that goes along with that.

    You should invest all those savings in the stock market, you’ll make a killing!
  • lx1x
    lx1x Posts: 38,330 Member
    Don't go out much nor travel.. staying calm at the moment.. still waking up in the morning..go to work.. go buy lunch at local stores like I normally do. Etc.
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    edited March 2020
    It hasn’t affected me or anyone I know.

    They only thing is I get bad minded when I see people coughing and sneezing in the air. Like the man who came over to fix the stove today. I wanted to chuck something at his —- skurrr no violence allowed.


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  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
    I bought an extra big box of coffee.

    I struggled to continue watching the walking dead around the time they ran out of coffee. It pained me too much to imagine
  • amree73
    amree73 Posts: 9 Member
    I am in Southern Arizona and there is no TP anywhere! Not the regular grocery stores, not at the cvs I was just at, not at the Natural Grocers that I shop at!! I have some, we have five in our house so I usually have some extra but dang!! All the "staples" are low or gone such as soup, broth, cleaning supplies, etc.

    All the community events have been canceled and my kids school start spring break after school today and the break may be extended into April!

    We have been sick with a cold but we are ok~
  • Sand_TIger
    Sand_TIger Posts: 1,097 Member
    My employer is making preparations for working from home, my bank has talked about possible closures, people are buying up everything including dumb stuff, I remain disgustingly healthy, and everyone is worried.
  • EpilepsyWarrior
    EpilepsyWarrior Posts: 56 Member
    Someone offered 100 bucks for our 1 bag of toilet paper lol Took 3 stores to get it and it was the last bag. The panic buyers, school being closed for 3 weeks, and even some businesses are closeing are whats affecting my city most right now.
  • amree73
    amree73 Posts: 9 Member
    Besides my kids having to stay home for two weeks, not at all. I'll have to do some extra work with my youngest at night on this homework, but I do that anyway. My kids are older so they can stay home by themselves, but my husband is also a teacher. And yes, I'm super annoyed that he gets a 2 week vacation.

    Still business as usual. I'm not doing anything different. Still dining out, still going to the gym, still going to work.

    My husband is a high school teacher We are hoping school does not get closed down!
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    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.

    Lmaooo best thing ever
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    amree73 wrote: »
    Besides my kids having to stay home for two weeks, not at all. I'll have to do some extra work with my youngest at night on this homework, but I do that anyway. My kids are older so they can stay home by themselves, but my husband is also a teacher. And yes, I'm super annoyed that he gets a 2 week vacation.

    Still business as usual. I'm not doing anything different. Still dining out, still going to the gym, still going to work.

    My husband is a high school teacher We are hoping school does not get closed down!

    The schools in the city where I am are all closed down until April 1
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    edited March 2020
    Someone offered 100 bucks for our 1 bag of toilet paper lol Took 3 stores to get it and it was the last bag. The panic buyers, school being closed for 3 weeks, and even some businesses are closeing are whats affecting my city most right now.

    Did you not have more toilet paper in your home before the pandemic?
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    I shouldn't have read "The Stand" by Stephen King 3 times because I think that's distorting my view of what a real pandemic should be like.

    Ohhh no..xD
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    AquaMeow 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
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    1sphere wrote: »
    I have to work from home for an entire month

    Wow that's crazy o.o
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    Someone threatened to kill me because I walked by a shelf of broth this morning (wasn’t even there to shop; just needed to use the bathroom). Bruises between my hips and ankles from being rammed by psychopath shoppers.

    Then there’s fear for loved ones. Trucker BiL, sister at higher risk due to medical factors, mother with diabetes, father losing control of his blood pressure obsessing over it.

    Then there’s fear concerning future medical appointments. Hubby is supposed to have his intake appointment with my family doctor on the 27th and afraid it’ll be postponed due to clinic closure (he hasn’t had a GP in over twenty years). Afraid that my neuro appointment will once again be rescheduled and I’ll run out of my anti-seizure med before I can see my specialist (clinic is in a major hospital).

    And non-stop migrain from all the stupidity.

    I'm sorry that happened to you please be safe..
  • kardsharp
    kardsharp Posts: 516 Member
    The only thing so far has affected me is the cancellation of events I had planed.
  • Cameron_1969
    Cameron_1969 Posts: 2,855 Member
    I bought an extra big box of coffee.

    I struggled to continue watching the walking dead around the time they ran out of coffee. It pained me too much to imagine

    Yes, that was hard. I am not sure I made it much farther after that.
  • AquaMeow
    AquaMeow Posts: 296 Member
    amree73 wrote: »
    I am in Southern Arizona and there is no TP anywhere! Not the regular grocery stores, not at the cvs I was just at, not at the Natural Grocers that I shop at!! I have some, we have five in our house so I usually have some extra but dang!! All the "staples" are low or gone such as soup, broth, cleaning supplies, etc.

    All the community events have been canceled and my kids school start spring break after school today and the break may be extended into April!

    We have been sick with a cold but we are ok~

    Please get better :/
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    I am in two tennis leagues. Both are suspended, indefinitely.