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So far all of my close ones and acquintances are still fine here in Indonesia, which is quite a feat given our government's painfully slow and disjointed response. But I do know one person from another forum whose aunt got infected. As for me… I'm just feeling anxious, like 70% of the world right now.

How about you guys?

Nothing has really changed for us honestly.

Grandfather infected and bed ridden, refuses to take support from us.
Extended relative's girlfriend has been given 8 days to recover or die, recommended to say final goodbyes to anyone allowed to see her, in case she dies of course. May be exaggerated, but her condition is critical regardless.
Close friend of ours has been put under comatose for treatment, especially strange since he’s only around 30 and at peak health whilst working as a cop, yet his health was destroyed instantly.
Make no mistake, this disease is a threat.

Indonesia? Same here. My brother and I live on a different island from our family, so we decided to stay where we are to avoid having to pass through an airport. Things are relatively safe back home with no confirmed cases, but the governor's taken preventive measures by issuing work/study-from-home policies weeks ago.

We're temporarily staying at an apartment. Pretty chill and comfy here; there's a supermarket in the same building so we don't have to go out much and not far when we do.

Sorry to hear that, Artichoke. I wish you all the best for your family and friends.

It's been in the news for a bit, but the state of Hawaii is on full lock down.

Our first case started back in the beginning March and were currently around 250~ confirmed cases by now. Unfortunately, in the paper today was the first reported death linked to the virus. Although travel hasn't been fully halted yet, most tourist activity has died down to a halt.

On an island to island basis, it has affected the islands proportionally to the population per island with Oahu as the primarily affected island with about 3/4th's of the cases, followed by Maui, then the Big Island (Hawaii), then Kauai, and the other islands have so far been untouched.

Sadly, since Hawaii is such a major tourist hub it was kind of inevitable that it'd reach us soon or later. The other problem is, if you would believe it, people from Hawaii typically travel abroad when they go on vacation so the first confirmed case was from a local from Oahu who went of a cruise ship down in Mexico (surprise surprise) and came back with the virus before falling ill back home.

Of course there have been other points of contact with the virus such as from tourist too so it wasn't contained completely and has slowly risen since.

As for myself personally I'm fairly lucky, in the sense, that my island (Kauai) is one of the least affect island so far. Although lucky isn't really accurate since there is already 12 cases, but it's hopefully still within the realm of being able to get under control since we're already in full lock-down by this point with non-essential travel around the island being denied by the police.

Still what does suck is that Kauai's first case(s) frustratingly came from a couple from Canada that came here on vacation who fell ill BEFORE travelling, and chose not to get checked out and traveled anyways.

All-in-all shit sucks at the moment, but it honestly could be worst, and unfortunately may very well get worse before it gets better. Stay safe out there everyone.

I caught it, with nearly all of the uncommon yet non-critical symptoms. Being 25 and in good health I recovered quickly, the worst of it was a bit of fever for one day.
My mother caught it several weeks later from her employer. Her symptoms were for the most part the same as mine, except due to her age she took much longer to recover. None of us were worried for her life but it wasn't a happy sight. She's now healthy again but she's been telling me she has these random moments when she quickly feels like grasping for air and we don't know what to make of it. We just kind of hope it goes away soon and that it was no big deal. No one else from my family has reportedly been ill.
I'll just say this as someone who actually contracted the virus. Do not act psycotic ovear fear of getting infected, just act cautious and smart. It's the small gestures like knowing when to wash your hands and how to maintain physical distance that help, not the dramatic stuff like hoarding resources others may need or treating strangers like you're suddenly racist towards them. We're all in this shitty time together and the only force moving us forwards is smart solidarity. Be extremely mindful for the most vulnerable.

That's quite the story. Do you think you've become immune to the virus? Because there's been mixed reports on whether recovered patients gain immunity or not.

The explanation given to me by my doctor is that there are actually two mutations of the virus circulating, hence why you hear that in some countries some unlucky few catch it "twice". However, the press would inform you right away if that scenario occurred in your country or state. So as long as yours is already on lockdown, it's likely only one mutation is circulating around you.

My niece might have it, started developing some flu-like symptoms and when swabbed didn't test positive for the flu. I'm hoping it's just my sis being a hypochondriac again but it's about a 50/50. Dad's in the military and was scheduled to go to Italy but this whole thing delayed that deployment.

Overall we're doing very well. I'm extremely glad everyone in my family was able to keep their jobs during this. Though pour one out for my youngest sis because she left her Switch back at her dorm 4.5 hours away with no opportunity to pick it up now. She's slowly going insane watching us play Animal Crossing.

doing fine but the inner doomer me predicts i'm gonna become a orphan by the end of this year..

My business revenue is down 22% YoY in March, which is down ~40% where I expected to be in march (since I was growing at a rate of around 30% YoY).
So yea, my income has greatly been reduced.

I work for a hospital's microbio lab, so life for me isn't too different. I'm treating this virus just like any other infection--another thing to be cautious of. When I'm not working, I'm just here at home doing whatever. I don't really mind waiting on getting games and movies.

As far as social distancing goes, I find that as a more situational action. If I'm around strangers, I'll absolutely do that; friends and family though, I can't make any promises (unless they're sick).

Personally, I'm trying to avoid hearing about COVID as much as possible, news, online, whatever--sadly, no escape from that anywhere I go so I just accepted it.

Quarantine went into effect as I was at home for spring break, so I haven't been back at my college in almost a month. One of the students who did return ended up testing positive, so it's probably for the best that I stayed home instead of going back to pick up some stuff. Cabin Fever is sorta kicking in, but I think I can manage.

Both of my parents are nurses and have been treating COVID-19 patients at work, and the number of cases have been steadily increasing. Sorta afraid that they might be bringing it into the house which has me worried since I'm at risk of dying considering my health conditions. Here's hoping for the best.

I wish the best for all of you who are/has family members working in the medical field. I can't think of a worse job than being a physician or a mortician at times like these.

I'm not dealing well with Corona based anxiety. With a ban from a baseball based DnD league on Reddit that I was in for 2 years, I can't find a hobby to keep me entertain. Life's been boring and I wish for a 2020 reboot. Seeing bad news on TV and online isn't helping me either. Also, I work at a bank and business is well busy and it can get on my nerves sometimes.

Biggest issue for me has been making sure my dad, who is nearly 60, gets all the stuff he needs from the store. I do his shopping for him and some items have been a little hard to come by, but I got extremely lucky this past week finding Lysol spray at a local Wal-Mart. My dad's biggest worry has been more so the fact my brother went out of the country back in January to Uganda (my brother is working with a missionary organization). I don't think he needs to worry about him though, my brother is in his mid-20s and very healthy so if he got it it wouldn't cause much harm to him specifically (he would just have to self quarantine), plus coronavirus spread seems to be weaker in countries that already deal with diseases like malaria and zika constantly.

Whenever I have to go out in public for my dad's sake I wear gloves on my hands and use a makeshift mask, and keep disinfectant wipes in the backseat of my car.

So far everything is ok for me and my folks. Aside from one of my siblings still having to work since she’s a receptionist at a local business and deemed essential. Right now there’s 3 people in my house that’s immune compromised, my mom and dad with their diabetes and my oldest sister with epilepsy so we’re all hoping the sibling who’s still working doesn’t get infected or becomes a carrier. Aside from that, we’re all trying to keep some form of normalcy in our lives and trying to take our minds off the pandemic.

My parents really don't like each other, so it's been pretty miserable. My mom tells me how she should have never married my father and can't wait to get a divorce, and my dad just whines about how my mother is just so mean. My little sister was recently diagnosed with depression, and she's told me that she feels like she can get away with more now; she has one of the foulest mouths I've ever heard Literally everyone in my family hates each other, and I'm the one they come to when they want to rant. I can't take much more of this

I'm doing fine and so is business for the time being, I'm concerned things may change the longer this quarantine goes on. My family and friends are fortunately all ok and I'm not aware of anyone who has the virus. I worry over my father, a diabetic, and some of my clients who are older folks who are most susceptible.

I understand it's important we all do our part and stay home, but I'm getting really bored being home all the time. I had big plans for the end of May which may or may not have been squandered by the virus.

Tbh I probably will never feel bored getting stuck in home all the time. I've clocked in countless hours in cramped dorms and a smaller house before in my lifetime, so I've basically become immune to cabin fever.

"I should use the vast amounts of time I have doing nothing now to practice drawing!"

Sees DS flashcart with ~16 GB of shovelware and the occasional good DS title.

"What was I thinking about doing again? Ehh, guess I'll play My Stop Smoking Coach with Allen Carr. "

The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

I'm doing alright. Supplies are well stocked, we're staying indoors, I got my games to keep me entertained, and best of all, we didn't caught the coronavirus.

Unfortunately for the celebrities, they're dying of the coronavirus. Just today the coronavirus killed Jaws actor Lee Fierro at age 91.

Im good but trying to stay off of sites like this because every time I see news of elite class fuckery it gets me thinking of really dark shit involving pikes and wall street

Thankfully the island and the province in the Philippines I live at closed the borders early before more infected came through from other provinces resulting in just 8 confirmed cases(as of writing this)from neighboring cities. Our city mayor closed our border to those cities immediately and we're currently on a lockdown(thankfully no cases where I live). Apart from the fact that we can get out of our houses, we're doing fine. For now at least.

My sister's branch of the family in Spain has contracted the virus. I swear, there must be something in our blood that attracts the fucking thing. It's starting to get on my nerves.
Fortunately, none of the most vulnerable individuals in our family has shown symptoms so far. They better stay that way or the next big catastrophy of 2020 is gonna be me

Wishing the best for your family in Spain.

Thanks. They're recovering now but my nephew took a bad hit. Seems like there isn't a symptom you cannot develop from this stupid plague. It's like a gacha machine with diseases inside.

I just got word that my other sister in Paris and her daughter have caught the virus too. I'm not even gonna comment on how that makes me feel, but at least they are recovering.
One thing I would like to ask to those who have not been confronted to the virus yet: how does this situation make you feel? Do you live in day-to-day fear of it? Being immune I only keep things safe to protect others, but I reckon some people must be very worried about contracting it. I caught it early, it only became a national matter here after I had just recovered. So I don't know what it's like to fear for yourself under the perspective of Covid-19.

Of course we're all anxious. This is a crisis nothing like people in three or four generations ever dealt before. But we'll all do our best to live through it, one way or another. Which is why I made this thread to help encourage people and overcome their anxiety and depression while dealing with it. Remember, our forefathers fought in two apocalyptic wars and and multiple bouts of even deadlier pandemics before. We'll get through this.

Bumped for good measure.

I worry for my little sister, she works in a grocery store and lives in the city, but she's fine from what she tells me.

Guess its just my big brother instincts getting overly protective.

I last mentioned my niece getting ill with covid-like symptoms. We were very relieved to learn it was just some allergies/mild other sniffles, so that was a load off our back.

My experience has been pretty different from most people's because I was able to keep both my jobs. I teach a freshman-level essay writing course which started in person but is now completely online. It wasn't hard to make the switch since all the papers were turned in online anyway. Mostly, I post lecture notes in the forums, field emails, and grade. I also work part time in a grocery store deli, which is much more time consuming. A few of the employees started quarantining a month ago, making us understaffed just as a wave of panic buying kicked in, so I was doing about 40 hours for a few weeks. It has calmed down since then, but some days can still be pretty hectic. The store keeps making changes to adjust to the situations. We all wear masks now, took out some of the open food sources like salad bars, stopped giving out samples, instituted new standards for hand washing, put a bunch of lines on the ground to keep people from crossing paths, and made a few efforts a social distancing, which is kind of a joke when you work in a space the width of a hallway. Management has been good to the people who stayed. So far, I've gotten $100 in gift certificates.

I'm a little nervous about interacting with so many people during all this since I regularly see elderly relatives, but I live in a sparsely populated rural area, so things aren't locked down quite as seriously as in many places. Most sit-down restaurants are closed, but places that can do drive-thru are open, like fast-food and banks. I still see plenty of cars on the road. Part of this is because my county only has five confirmed cases so far. I keep hearing about people going crazy in quarantining or going bankrupt, so I am fortunate to have income sources and somewhere to be most days.

College is cancelled baby! Im losing my mind yo!

Well, my life is mostly back to normal now. my online store revenue isn't back to where is was, but its very close to it. All my stonks are back where they were. Everything is trending back up for me.

Mods, please don't ever ban this man.

Well, that quote aged poorly really fast

Almost all schools are cancelled and tbh as a high school senior, this stinks because I have to do distance learning from home.

I do uber eats, and my income has pretty much doubled over the past month, so everything is going well. surely this will not backfire on me in any way.

Hopefully you don't earn too much from this because depending on how long this may last, and however much of an increase in income this is for you, you may end up jumping to the next tax bracket which would suck come tax season once things normalize again.

Bumped again for your convenience.

I've actually been working in a hospital during this entire crisis, so It's a miracle that I never got infected. Either that or I did catch it and I'm completely asymptomatic. Beyond that, I've just been trying to stay on my feet financially; I'm part of the group of people who had their pay slashed because of this crap, but it's looking like it's going to come back for me soon. I'm just hoping my second employer, a restaurant, doesn't try to screw me over on hours like they did before this pandemic happened, because if they do, I'm going to have to look into Doordash or Uber eats; something that actually lets me make the extra cash I need and isn't going to fuck me.

The lights went out tonight and I'm fucking freaking out. I'm scared they might not come back once I wake up lol. (for context I love in columbia, south Carolina…)

So far since the lockdowns in California, my family and I were getting by alright. We were all lucky to not get hit by COVID-19. Can't say the same for family on the other side of the country though, especially since my dad told me everything is closed, add to that the idea that he could pass away while we're all on lockdown since last time I left, he wasn't in good health, and contact with him showed me he hasn't been in good health even though his wife is now with him.

Things are ticking back up in Georgia, which seems fairly split between people still staying home for all but necessities and those who are back to their pre-pandemic routines. My pay is slashed for the forseeable future, but I'm thankful for it rather than bitter--I still have a job, am able to work from home, and my wife and I are still able to make ends meet. My sister-in-law is a nurse and my father just had open heart surgery, so we're a bit on edge for their heath but otherwise alright. Truthfully, we're just waiting to see how long it takes before the state starts re-implementing the social distancing measures from March and April, because this doesn't seem sustainable.

In any event, a judge on our Court of Appeals always starts every weekend with the same tweet, which I thought was worth sharing:

Just recently I gotten a text from my county. It may end up on a state watch list and face some closures if COVID-19 cases keep on going up. I feel this will put a dent on me getting a job but more importantly, it makes me worry for family members that still have to go out and work.

Not much really going on, me and my family are going to some cabin by a lake we go to every year or two sometime at the end of the month.