I’m in Beijing. My wife is in Korea.
Personally, nothing at all so far. Except the mental exercise of wondering how long I would be able to keep meals of Rice, Beans, Canned Tomatoes and frozen Chicken Thighs remotely interesting if it came to that.
I work for a public school district in Maryland. The governor just announced that all public schools in the state must close for 2 weeks starting this coming Monday, which is going to throw everything into chaos. I’m assuming if we’re able to reopen after that, spring break (supposed to start April 3) will be canceled. Regardless, the remainder of the year will be a discombobulated mess.
I live in Kitsap County, across Puget Sound from Seattle. We have a couple confirmed cases, but likely dozens or hundreds more not showing symptoms.
My wife commutes across the water via ferry. Her whole office got sent home today, they have a couple employees with suspected cases. Not clear if she’d expected to work from home, or for how long.
We have a toddler in daycare. I fear it’s only a matter of time before it shuts down. That’s my biggest worry.
Myself? I handle too much physical paperwork to work from home. I work for a government agency that handles aging and long term care, some the most vulnerable people in the county. I don’t visit anyone in person, but most of my coworkers do face-to-face assessments. If any of us got infected it would be a disaster.
I also worry about my nearby aunts and uncles, all in their 70s.
Patients are bombarding me with calls. Everybody with a cold or allergies wants to be tested. I have to tell them I can’t do testing in the office. Tests have to be frozen and we don’t have the facilities to maintain frozen samples for transport. They want to know where to go to get tested. I have to tell them that the hospitals and Health Dept won’t do it because they don’t meet criteria and the labs won’t do the tests themselves. I frankly don’t know where they can get tested until they are more ill. I can tell them to stay home for 2 weeks unless they are really sick but nobody wants to hear that. I have stocked up on gloves, masks, Purell, Lysol but I can’t get any additional, so I am worried about running out. I can’t even get liquid soap for the office dispensers. The staff is freaked out every time anybody comes in with a cold, which of course happens several times a day. At the same time, patients are cancelling appointments because they are afraid of catching it in the office, so my bottom line is suffering.
After eleven and a half years, I’ve begun using the disinfectant wipes to wipe down my walkie-talkie at the start of a shift at work.
And Kayla’s face-to-face classes at her school have been cancelled in favor of online instruction. Which is fine for accounting and engineering majors. Performing arts, not so much. Spring break is looming, and she’s got plans to host three friends (different visits) over the next couple of weeks. One of them is coming on a class trip with the performing arts program at UCI, and is the most probable one to cancel (although we haven’t heard anything yet), on account of the Great White Way just announced that it’s shutting down for the rest of the month. Which is likely to put a damper on any activities planned for her other friends’ visits.
She says that if they all three fall through, she’s going to try to fly back home for the duration.
We’ve had to cancel a long-planned trip to Washington state. We’ll get back the deposit for our lodging, but it’s iffy if Alaska Air will refund the money for our airline tickets.
My husband now works from home full-time, but I can’t do so. I do a lot of printing of paper and filing of paper, and that can’t be done remotely.
I am an avid concert goer. So far five planned concerts in March have been cancelled and probably an early April festival as well.
South Texas.
I’m retired, so I don’t really have to go anywhere. Not affected much at all, at least not so far. I walk at a local mall every morning, but I’m usually in and out of there before the stores open. I’ve stopped going to synagogue on Friday nights. I also sing in an Episcopal choir on Sunday (yeah, weird I know), and I’m still going to that, but no hugging or shaking hands. I’m in a choir at a local community college and we’re on Spring Break. Found out yesterday that all the colleges in the city are extending Spring Break another week and after that they’re supposed to go to all online classes. Haven’t figured out how to rehearse a choir online… <scratches head>
I have a ladies’ lunch group and a book club, but they’re 7 and 10 women, respectively, so not a big problem. I don’t seek out large group events or even eat out much. Still going to the grocery store a couple of times a week.
I live by myself, and all the people I really cared about are already dead, so there’s that. 
There are 3 cases in Ohio, all in my county, all in the eastern suburbs where I live.
I’m 74, with pre-existing conditions. I no longer go anywhere except for food shopping (early in the morning) and doctors’ appointments.
But I’m worried about my husband. He’s younger than I am and healthier, but he’s traveled internationally for work. If he gets the virus he’ll survive. But if he gives it to me, I’m dead.
One of our sons won’t be returning to school until at least April 6. He’s home for Spring Break now, and they’re adding an extra week on. After that, it’s two weeks (at least) of online classes. He may go stay with his girl friend’s family part of the second week of online classes; they live less than an hour from Ithaca. We’re closer to six hours away.
My wife teaches at a massage school, and also coordinates workshops. It’s crazy there right now. The DC school system, where I work, is closing to students on Monday to “prepare for possible online instruction.” We had been scheduled for a professional development day next Friday anyway, so I don’t see any reason for moving it unless the writing on the wall says “we’re closing schools for weeks”. I’m ahead of the curve on using the resources we already have for remote teaching and learning, and introduced some to students earlier in the year.
And public schools are closed immediately. Spring break starts one week plus one day early. That is sooner than I thought. I was mostly expecting they would make it through Friday, and then on Sunday announce it was closed for two weeks.
My studio is doing a trial run of working from home next week, in preparation for doing so… permanently, or least for the duration.
My wife works for the local hockey team, and they just announced that they are postponing the rest of the season. I’m very nervous about whether they’ll need her if this goes on too long.
I can say that it really the most important of things, but my vacation just got cancelled - and not voluntarily at all. Unhappily, I haven’t been on a real vacation in six years, and this was something I really wanted to do at a place I really wanted to go.
Merde.
I’ve been carrying those around for years. Every time I eat out, I clean my hands with them, even if I’m not going to be touching the food. It amazes me that people will eat a hamburger or pizza without even thinking about where their hands have been.
I just retired in January so fortunately I don’t have to go to work. I had a job that could not be done remotely. As of this week, the only place I’m going is to my mother’s house to pack up stuff. She died a month ago. I was already stressing because I’m trying to get things settled and this is all new to me. I’m waiting on a corrected death certificate and a response to a form I had to send in to TennCare (I’m in Memphis) and I can’t proceed without those. I’m wondering if office closings are going to cause delays. Then when I get them, I need to see a probate lawyer and go to court. I have a realtor but we can’t really do anything until I get the house in my name.
Things should start coming together in a couple weeks. Not exactly good timing. The realtor is a friend’s sister and she is 71. I haven’t talked to her since last week and I don’t know how she is going to feel about showing the house if things get worse in the next few weeks. I’m starting to feel like I should just put everything on hold and wait to see if things get better in a month or so. I know that me being stressed is not good for my health.
Actually, just typing that out made me realize I do have to put everything on hold. This is a world-wide emergency situation and as much as I need to get this done, it’s just not going to happen any time soon. I need to take a deep breath and relax.
Life carries on as normal here (Wet Midlands, UK) - I work at a university where we have no confirmed cases as yet, and only one known self-isolating academic (he has asthma and it’s apparently normal for him to get cold/cough symptoms at this time of year). My dept runs language programmes so we have students all over the world on the year abroad part of their studies - some are stuck in lockdown areas, some have come home from other countries and some are choosing to stay. It’s all a bit vague for them as the year/semester abroad has a residency requirement attached to it.
For us, it’s business as usual although we are looking at all manner of contingencies, including how to run our 6-week exam session online instead of on campus. The senior mucky-mucks will take that decision and expect the rest of us to just make it work.
Personally, it isn’t affecting me too much. Various music events have been cancelled that I would have been attending, the latest one due to travel restrictions as one guy from Prague can’t get a flight out and the other guy he sings with is concerned about being able to get a flight back to his home in Spain. I haven’t been grocery shopping since last weekend so no idea what that’s going to be like, I might have a go at that tonight and see how horrendous the stupidity out there has become. I’ve been reading the comments on farcebook from my local newspaper (we have 5 confirmed cases, two deaths and a drive-through testing centre now) which serves only to prove that the population in my city has the combined IQ of a crayon.
My wife teaches at a community college. Yesterday they announced that classes will be taught on-line through (IIRC) 4/19.
I’m assuming our monthly gig at an old folks home next Sat is going to be cancelled. Another home has cancelled the weekly Saturday a.m. jams.
But other than that, pretty much life as normal.
I read that last word as 'jams as in pajamas. What a visual!
I’m so sorry about your mom. It’s hard to be dealing with that on top of this CV thing. As much as you want to get on with settling things, it’s probably better to hold off. Hugs to you. 
I work at the Vanderbilt University library. All the undergraduates have been urged to go back home; classes will continue online, though. There are a lot fewer people studying in the library, now! Just grad students, at this point.
I was in an online staff meeting the other day, where they suggested that, at some point, we might be issued laptops so that we could work from home. I hope that it doesn’t come to that, since I enjoy coming in every weekday.
I’m dreading going to Walmart tomorrow! I hope that I can find all the groceries and supplies that I need.