QUARANTINE!!
 

How are you coping? Are you an essential worker, or are you able to work from home? Do you have any fears about going outside or to the store?

I'm hoping that, in years to come, we can look back at this thread and see how we got through this very unusual time of life!

I'm a computer programmer for a regulatory organization for the stock market. My department already had a considerably number of people working from off-site or some number of days from home. The only question was whether the infrastructure could handle the *entire* company working from home. A *few* glitches, but not many.

I've got my mask, I go to the Grocery Store, and my wife and I go walking in the forested parks around here.

NARAHT: That's me. Working from home, getting my walks in, grocery store and maybe a take out meal every now and then. That's it.

I'm going to be positively feral by the time this thing is over.

I thankfully am able to work from home, my husband after a couple of days of his work being closed they were given guidance they are considered essential and he went back to work.

I've been working from home daily since mid-March, I try to really limit my outings to the store so I try and go once a week or maybe once every two weeks. I have a dog so that forces me to get out and take a walk although I have a cloth mask that I've started to wear for walks around the neighborhood. My only other weekly outing is to see my dad, I put on an old N-95 mask I had already from doing house stuff before I go into his house since he's at higher risk. And wore my N-95 at the grocery store the other day as well. Although even how I shop in the store has changed since before all of this I loved to meander through the aisles and look now I'm pretty strategic of what I am there for to get myself in/out as quickly as possible.

It does worry me that my husband is having to go in to work, thankfully work has been slower so his public exposure has been less. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I was concerned.

My husband and I are walking the dogs and gardening a lot. The three youngest sons are home from college.

My husband has a good job in IT with an essential company (HVAC contractor) so thank God his job is safe and pays well. He is working from home.

My 25 year old, thriving small business as a pet sitter is gone. Completely dead. I lost thousands of dollars in bookings. The whole pet sitting industry has been decimated.

I'm enjoying quarantine. If there wasn't a terrible disease doing this I'd be in heaven.

I already worked from home and only went out for errands in the morning.

I'm getting so much done. More work done, more crafting, more reading, more cooking and baking, much more exercise, catching up on TV I recorded, completing all sorts of things I said I'd get to and didn't around the house - it's insane how productive I've been.

And it's not like I couldn't have done it before, because I could have. I just didn't. So that's interesting to me.

Cornell Law's been in online classes for a week and a half now and they're mostly going fine. Thankfully all of our grades are pass/fail now so I don't have to worry about competing against my classmates on the curve, which is much more fair because everyone's living situation and ability to cope with the pandemic vary greatly. I've basically been walking my dog, occasionally going for a run when it's nice enough and buying groceries as needed. I started a gigantic cross-stitch project as a gift to my best friend who's graduating from law school this spring and I didn't think I'd get it done in time, but now that his commencement is cancelled and classes are online I probably will have it done by late May.

My dad's an ER doctor and worked a couple weeks at a hospital in Tampa and is currently at Mt Sinai in NYC through this weekend. After that he's going to a hotel room back in RI to quarantine so he doesn't potentially get my family sick. I'm worried he doesn't have enough PPE and I desperately hope he does:(

I'm an essential worker who must go in. I am semi-retired so I still have 20 hours per week in the office.

Can you apply for relief through your bank? We have been steering our small business customers to our CARES website to get the process started.

Essential worker: Health care, mid-management. Gotta go to the Medical Center, assign the pool of employees to other areas of the hospital, if needed.

Employees are COVID-19 screened prior entering the hospital and are given a mask. I feel safe. NO VISITORS ALLOWED.

I am 90% sure I had it already in February, once antibody testing is available at my institution, I will be asked to be tested...

I am an essential worker (Fire Captain); so, of course, I still go to work. We get a health screening before each shift. Firefighters are used to dealing with unexpected and "chaotic" situations. So, it's business as usual. [shrug]

At home, however, I've made the adjustments of not going places like I normally would. I'm not afraid of going outside or anything like that. If I do go out, I just do my part by wearing a mask, etc.

I’m an essential worker (drug and alcohol rehab), so I’m still working...as long as people keep coming to rehab, that is. I’m in NJ, so I’m staying in as much as possible unless it’s work. I have like five lifetimes’ worth of groceries in here right now...

I am teaching from home.

I'm with you. I work part-time for a chiropractor who is still open and seeing patients. I am not working until WI lifts the Safer at Home restrictions due to ongoing health issues. My job is thankfully safe, and I'm handling what office tasks I can remotely. Doing lots of reading, cleaning, walking the dog, cooking, and watching mindless TV. This extrovert really misses people.

DH is classified as essential and has been able to work from home since the 30th. His company is actually seeing a surge in business (pet supplies) worldwide.

Two of my guys are fully working from home. Eldest works for a college who apparently still has students on campus, somehow. He's essential (oversees residence halls) and lives in one of the states that does not have Safer at Home/Shelter in Place restrictions. He's doing what he can to minimize exposure to others but I still worry.

Essential worker in Financial services working from home (attempting to). I have a 2 month old that thinks everything revolves around him and a 6year old that doesn't stop.

My hubby is a mechanic at a dealership and still has to go in to work. I send him to the stores since he's already out. I've only been out like 3 times this past month to go to the doctors or pick up a school packet for my oldest.

Still working but now on the day shift instead of nights at a different location. I don’t do well with change and this has been hard. The location I have worked at for 22 years has been shut down and I am worried it won’t be opened again. For 23 years I have worked evenings so getting up to be at work at 7 am is quite an adjustment. Ultimately, I am happy to have a job and my same salary, I know I am lucky.

I do feel bad for clients as they are not allowed into the clinic to see their pet which is so hard. I try to arrange some visits outside but have to be careful as don’t want to get into any trouble with the boss. We have already had one positive employee exposure and that completely shut down one of the ER shifts for a week. Looking forward to the day this is all over. I was thinking about going part time next year, may do it sooner if this goes on for months.

I live in one of those states as well. Every other night the apartment complex across the street from me throws a party with 20+ people and until a few days ago there wasn't anything that could be done. Now anyone at a gathering of over 10 people can be given a misdemeanor and a fine. It's going to snow this weekend which I think will cut back on the darties more than a $600 fine.

I'm a lawyer with a practice mostly in the area of family law. I'm very effectively working from home with my office lines forwarded to my cell and my postage machine and my trusty webcam, I can do whatever I could do prior to the lockdown. Non-emergency hearings are currently not happening.

I have held emergency hearings via Zoom. The courts are looking at a number of platforms, but I greatly prefer Zoom and have purchased a Pro account. Just yesterday I was able to conduct an Emergency custody hearing at which all parties could easily be present.

I don't mind appearing for court in gym shorts. I wouldn't mind some of these changes being permanent.

We've been in isolation for a month. Our house is cleaner than usual, but our cats fight more. We have five, so it's not unlike Cat Island at feeding time at any given hour.



I'm a college prof so all of my classes moved online. Wasn't a huge deal because a goodly chunk of my courses each semester are online or hybrid anyway. My boyfriend is working from home as well. It means he doesn't have to commute to San Francisco every day, but being stuck at home is driving him a little nuts. We only go out for vet appointments and groceries for ourselves and our parents, as they're all over 75 and two of them are immune compromised.

I think this is a change that most people would enjoy!

I've been working from home for a month and I do not miss my commute at all. I wasn't sure if I'd miss seeing humans and on work days, I can say that I don't miss it. Weekends are a little different. My employer has us on 20% pay deferment indefinitely. Sometime between October 2020 and March 15, 2021, they will pay us all the pay with 6% interest. Now that my nest is empty, my budget can absorb that hit.

My kids and I chat more often than we had been and that's been nice. We play some online games together and that's fun. I can do this for another month or so without going insane, I think.

It will be interesting to see what kinds of changes become more permanent. For example, more dealerships have signed up for an app that allows people to shop from home and have a car delivered to them. The feedback from dealerships is very positive and a lot of them were wary of it before.

My husband works for a large defense contractor and he's been working from home. Not sure when he'll be returning to work at the office.



With schools closed, I am no longer substitute teaching. I may or may not be taking on a long term assignment for a pre-kindergarten class at the beginning of the school year. Getting four year olds to wear masks all day, not allowing them to play together and no sharing of items will be...interesting.;)



My daughter is home from UCSB and taking her classes online. She's planning on returning to school in Sept. and there will likely be a hybrid approach. Large lectures will be online but her labs will be in person. Fortunately she already has signed her lease on her apartment.



My son is a high school senior who has now seen his end of the year activities disappear:(. His high school is trying their best to at least offer them a form of graduation. On 6/8/20 we'll join the rest of his class at the local drive in movie theater to watch the graduation video compiled of photos sent in from families along with the speakers who were filmed delivering their speeches. Last night was supposed to be their senior prom which would have been held up at the Science Center near downtown Los Angeles. However considering the state of civil unrest, it's better that they had to remain at home. He's now registered for classes to begin at the local community college this fall.

VERY happy that your son's school is being so understanding concerning Seniors! We got caught in the middle of a parade of cars that seniors had decorated, and were driving around in celebration. It was fun, and when it was time for us to get out of the parade, we tooted in solidarity!

Thank you honeychile! Here is the coverage from our local paper on the parade. From a class of 420 they estimated that 300 participated! We had great cooperation from the city fire and police departments who coordinated with the school faculty and staff to see this fun activity happen. Also we're grateful to the neighbors who decorated, cheered and graciously let the parade take over their streets for two hours.



https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/06/...-neighborhood/

I am Verkemp! Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

Ha!