My wife and I work in the same building but for different companies. Normally has about 3,000 people there. About 4 cars in the parking lot when I met my boss to grab my laptop this morning. They wouldn’t let me inside.
Oldest kid in med school came home because all face to face classes are cancelled.
My wife’s IT group will be coming by tonight or tomorrow to set up her remote office (she doesn’t have a laptop).
Youngest kid just found out a few hours ago that his face to face classes are cancelled for the rest of the year. I assume he will move home this weekend.
I’m currently enjoying watching the Price is Right.
Just a thought, but it might be informative for posters to give a general location.
I’m in southern WI and there are currently 6 confirmed cases in my state. Locally, some social events are being cancelled, scaled back, or postponed. The local school district says schools will remain in session at this point unless a case is detected. Colleges are telling students not to come back after spring break for various amounts of time and seem to be scrambling to get virtual options in place.
My employer already allows almost everyone to work from home if they want. Offices remain open but there are definitely more people choosing not to come in. All travel, even within state, is heavily restricted. A conference I was planning to attend in CA in April was scrapped but they are working to do sessions remotely.
Spring Break family vacation is still on, assuming flights aren’t cancelled or other drastic measures put in effect that could make it difficult to get back home. We have direct flights from Chicago to a Caribbean island that so far hasn’t reported any cases, so that’s good. Also bought trip insurance several weeks ago, so happy with that decision. I just checked and the policy I bought has gone up in price, but not as much as I would have expected.
Nothing has changed in my personal environment–except that I am getting worried and planning to change my behavior somewhat because of what I read in the internet.
My folks cancelled their cruise to the Caribbean, finally. They received a voucher from the cruise line but were out 2 grand from the travel agent’s booking fee. Cheaper than a funeral. My folks are both almost 80, so them being on a cruise ship right now wouldn’t be a very prudent thing to do.
Damn! The chili cook-off for Saturday got canceled, and I just bought all my meat today! (Well, we can freeze it, at least.)
Also, a job of mine on Monday got cancelled, as well. March is usually a slow month for me business-wise (photography), so it kind of sucks, but, oh well.
I have actually started to use disinfecting wipes after being out in public for the first time since … well, ever really. Not so much for my health but to not possibly spread it. So that PSA is actually altering my behavior somewhat.
Just got a text from the care home in which my 95 year old dad currently resides. No visitors. (This in Michigan which has two confirmed cases)
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I’m about 90 miles east of you in the Lawrenceburg area. My sons are still attending school, I think the district is hoping to just make it to Spring Break which starts next Wednesday and thinking that the two weeks off will allow for this to blow over.
I’m worried about them bringing it home and then all three of us are stuck in an apartment for the foreseeable future…
Increasingly looking like we’ll get mandatory telework at some point, at least a couple of days a week. My immediate supervisors have been against telework for some reason, despite the fact that there’s very little practical reason for most of us to actually physically be in the office, but fortunately this decision is being handed down from on high.
Forgot that my wife and daughter had a trip planned for hiking in northern Italy next week. Looking for something closer but even that is getting hard.
Woke up yesterday morning to the news that my son’s college (near Philadelphia) had just told everyone, “Don’t come back from Spring Break.” He is in California with his girlfriend’s family. The “stay away” edict is currently in force until April 6.
After a family Skype conference, it was decided he will stay with his girlfriend’s family. Poor them! I don’t think they bargained on having their daughter’s boyfriend as a houseguest for an entire month. I wanted him to come stay with me in Hawai’i (girlfriend welcome as well) but son and GF want to stay together, and GF’s parents don’t want her to leave.
Other than figuring out my son’s situation, my life isn’t really affected yet here on Hawai’i Island. I tend to stock up anyway (I kind of live in the boonies and can’t dash out for a depleted staple without a bit of a hassle) and had done a big Costco run a couple weeks ago, before TP started to fly off the shelves. So as long as water and power stay on, I can last a month or two, easy, if I have to.
Not me, but my adult kids are affected, as are my aging parents.
Eldest is having trouble meeting work schedules, since many countries have new restrictions in place. He was supposed to travel from LA to Honolulu, then Singapore, and on to Bahrain. Now Bahrain says no admittance to anyone who’s been in Singapore within two weeks, so he’s getting lots of delays. Since these restrictions change almost daily, it’s playing havoc with his travel schedule.
Youngest still in university, and their classes are all remote starting in 2 weeks (next week is Spring Break). Still lots of confusion on exactly how the classes will be broadcast, whether Skype, or some app provided by the school. The profs haven’t had much time to figure this out, so it will be a confused mess for a while.
Parents are still independent, but only barely. I need to drive to help out frequently (700 miles RT). I have a slight cough and drainage so am fearful of traveling to them at the moment. I can do it without any contact along the way, but could make them sick. Now need to stay put for a few weeks to be sure I don’t pass something to them.
No cases yet as far as I know in western Pennsylvania. When I talk to friends, pretty much all we talk about is the virus and how dificult it is not to touch your face.
I’m in Western Washington, so it’s a big effect. The school district is (finally) closing for two weeks starting tomorrow. They announced it after school yesterday, and today will mostly be about picking up belongings and getting instructions for what to do during the break. The company where my husband works full-time and I work part-time has told everyone not to come into the office if it’s possible to do their jobs at home. (So the shop guys are still coming in unless they have cold symptoms.) My other job is at a DC law firm, so I already worked at home for that one. We have stocked up on frozen food. I was hoping to go visit my parents in California soon, but that has been scotched for the time being. The freeways are bizarrely empty.
Working in a 911 Center in Missouri. On a personal level, the only change has been some longer hours. Work wise, we are now asking people a lot of Novid-19 screening questions. For most calls, it’s no big deal, they answer the questions and we respond. But there are some people who catch on to what we are doing and you can almost tell in their voice when it happens. We either get hung up on, or the answers become very vague. We then spend an inordinate amount of time trying to convince people that we will respond to their emergency no matter what, it’s just if you are having symptoms of the virus, the responders put on masks and gowns, but it’s usually too late and we never get any good information.
As the news has reported, gowns, masks etc are in short supply in the hospital as well as in the field. If you stepped in a hole and broke your ankle, we really don’t want to waste the gowns and masks unless we have to. If we try to explain that we are responding no matter how you answer the questions BEFORE you asks the questions, then almost everyone goes straight to paranoid and we still don’t get the answers.
The folks I send you run towards the sound of gunfire and run into burning buildings. Why you think they won’t come because of some virus is beyond me. They have gear to protect themselves, they are just trying to make sure they don’t run out of that gear before they get more.
/end of rant.
My daughter and her fiancé planned to go to New Orleans for a medical convention, then head to Phoenix for another medical meeting. Both meetings were cancelled and the trips were mostly going to be fun trips, but without the “excuse” of a job-related meeting they can no longer go.
Not really affected here in Arizona. The governor has declared a state of public emergency and there will be no audience for the Democratic debate in Phoenix. But there have only been nine cases in the whole state, and five of them are from one household. It seems to be pretty well contained for the time being.