I was just checking on every one. I just came back from Fall Creek Falls camping. I would have been there longer but they shut down the campsites Thursday and said we had to leave by this morning. Athens is pretty well shut down except for the necessities like grocery stores and Walmart.
Life hasn changed much for me other than working from home and missing my Friday morning men's group.
Most of day to day life is much the same for us, we both work from home so no real change there. Having most social contact cut off is frustrating and even though we've only missed one Sunday so far we're really missing church. We canned our monthly Bible study group earlier in the week and all the Easter things we were looking forward to are also cancelled. Although it's frustrating we're thankful that the extent of our troubles is pretty small. We know a few people who are likely to struggle much more than we are.
As mentioned in the other thread, we are in a bit of stress. Latest update on the wife is that there is fluid buildup around her spine (I think). Might be infection, but could be something else. Tomorrow she gets shipped by ambulance 2 hours west to get an MRI and some additional test. From there, she could end up back in Vancouver if more specialized care is required.
Things here are a bit different but my life hasn't changed much. The church is closed but my Sunday School class moved to a conference call last week and it worked reasonably well. My gym is closed but the grocery stores and convince stors are open. And things like mail and garbage pickup goes on despite city hall being closed. So I'm mostly sitting home reading and watching t.v. and making my daily runs to check my p.o.box and picking up whatever odds and ends I may need. My only complaint is about people acting out of an abundance of panic and hoarding things. So, all in all, my life goes on as normal.
Keeping yourself sanitized & protected and keeping social distance are only two things helpful right now. We just need to doing that.
Life's pretty much the same aside from the lockdown, and even then we aren't missing anything essential.
It's sometimes hard to tell the difference between prudent stocking and hoarding. The person with a shopping cart piled so high with toilet paper they can't see over the top is almost certainly hoarding, but it could be they came in from another area and are stocking for themselves and others. When so much of the supply chain is pushing towards the idea of "just in time" delivery and a lot of people shop for maybe 3-4 days at a time, when official advice suggests being ready to stay home for 14 days at a time it's easy to see why people might go out and buy 3-4 times as much as normal, to make sure they are ready for that kind of stay at home. Of course planning for a longer period than normal throws in uncertainty so it's not surprising if people round everything up and buy more than usual, so the supply chain that's geared around having just enough on hand at any given time has to face the combined onslaught of some people who are buying 4 times as much as normal as well as a small number who are just buying everything in sight.
This is actually a time to connect with yourself. Learn to enjoy company of the self. If you aren't happy with yourself, who are you going to be happy with? We always complained there wasn't enough time for the family, Now you've got it, why complain? Take advantage of the opportunity.
I like commutes like that. While my wife and I were fighting colds and both having disturbed nights I took to sleeping in the spare room so at least one of us could get some sleep. That meant the commute from getting up to getting to my laptop to work was more like 5 feet. Some evenings I'd sit and write code until I got too drowsy to continue and stop. It's nice to be able to go from working to in bed in the space of 60 seconds or less, and the days when I could go from working to sleeping in under 5 minutes were really nice.