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[Happosai]

Seeing as NeoGAF has members from all over the world...I wonder how you've all been dealing with quarantine, lock-down, or curfews. Have you changed or how does it bear on you mentally?

For me, I've developed increased anxiety, depression, insomnia, and dependency to sleeping pills (for the past 3-weeks anyway). This is the second worst insomnia I've had. I'm an American citizen living in Mexico. Because I live in an elite city near Mexico City, they're really serious about regulating everything here. They've closed nearly everything and everyone's kinda paranoid.

What's it like in the rest of the world?

 

[Tesseract]

i'm aight, been through years of worse

 

[ReyBrujo]

Argentina here, we have been on quarantine since March 20 and it will last at least until July 17. I had spent a month on vacations so I have been away from the office since February 20 or so, which means I'll spend 5 months away from the office by the time the quarantine is (very probably) renewed. It's winter now so quarantine won't likely be lifted until spring (September) at the very least.

I bought about 10kg of candies which I'm eating slowly so I guess that could count as anxiety

Spoiler: Yummy

 

[Happosai]

Argentina here, we have been on quarantine since March 20 and it will last at least until July 17. I had spent a month on vacations so I have been away from the office since February 20 or so, which means I'll spend 5 months away from the office by the time the quarantine is (very probably) renewed. It's winter now so quarantine won't likely be lifted until spring (September) at the very least.

I bought about 10kg of candies which I'm eating slowly so I guess that could count as anxiety

I wondered how it was in Argentina. No work for me. I'm a school teacher at one of the universities. They all closed the 23rd of March. Right now, it's admins only. I'm one of those people who likes working. Mercado Libro has candles if all the physical stores close.

 

[Tesseract]

i've tried to use this time to better myself physically and mentally

hearing stories about people around me giving into the darkness, eating like shit or drinking to excess

 

[Northeastmonk]

I spent 3 hours waiting in my car to get a free test yesterday. I’m in the Midwest of NA. I just started my new job this year and it’s been fantastic. I go to many different places in different states , problem solving and installing tech for offices. This includes hospitals, hospices, business offices, etc. The coworker I shadowed for a while came down with it. It was just us at first and I was hired to take over that role. Now I’m at home, basically quarantining myself, and I’m waiting to hear back about the results. I have developed a lot more anxiety this week than this whole thing combined. I wore N95 masks that made me feel like I couldn’t breath. My rides home made me feel like I had COVID and it was just adjusting to the fresh air. I wouldn’t say I’m panicking, but I’m doing extra work remotely to soothe myself until I can work again.

I think I’ve had a lot of exposure to different clients than my last job. That made me feel good for social reasons, but now I’m showing symptoms. I just want those test results. I had to have a couple projects rescheduled due to this whole thing. I really like my job too.

 

[Husky]

I've had some awful insomnia lately, can't fall asleep unless I get into bed exhausted. Even then, I might find myself suddenly wide awake.

 

[008]

Florida here. I’ve been working remote, hitting the gym, and visiting the beach. Just trying to have somewhat of a normal routine.

I was at a pool party a couple of weeks back. A couple of guys were there and they recently tested positive for covid-19. Found out yesterday they’re both in the hospital(late 20’s and early 30’s). Ummm, yeah that through me for a loop. I’ll wear the damn mask haha

 

[12Goblins]

 

[Taxexemption]

Sleeping hasn't been great. I am employed and working from home but, I'm a little worried about my job. I always have self improvement goals, some of them are harder to work on, others are easier. Through diet and exercise I've lost a little bit of weight since this started.


I'm basically resigned to the fact that this is about the election, and that at least in my state they will try to make it last until after the election. I'm expecting that things won't really be normal for the rest of the year. Maybe they go back to normal if Trump gets re-elected, maybe all of the rioting blows up and gets worse, I don't really know.


I'm still a bit angry at all of the changes. I had come to understand that I lived a lot of my life in an anti-social way, and that I needed to make an effort to spend more time with people to develop my social skills, that was going to be one of my main goals for the year. With the whole covid 19 thing, there are fewer opportunities to do the stuff I wanted to do, and any time people are wearing a mask I'm going to feel like whatever experience we have is meaningless. I just can't view people the same way when wearing a mask. I want to see their facial expressions, I want to know if they are angry, happy, or sad. I want to see their reactions to what I do or say. The experience of talking to people wearing masks feels robotic somehow, like without seeing their face it's less like I'm talking to a person and more like I'm talking to a robot or other type of non-person entity of some sort. I feel like this whole thing is bad for people like me, and younger people going through what I went through as a teenager. Basically, if you aren't on the right track socially, this will delay your development and for people who are germophobic I'm sure this will give them all sorts of excuses to be anti-social and to not interact with people in ways they need to in order to build social skills.


At this point all the days kinda blend in together. Time passes, but do you really notice? Like, if there were no paydays or weekends they could just set all of my calendars back a few days or even weeks and I wouldn't know.

 

[BadBurger]

Seeing as NeoGAF has members from all over the world...I wonder how you've all been dealing with quarantine, lock-down, or curfews. Have you changed or how does it bear on you mentally?

For me, I've developed increased anxiety, depression, insomnia, and dependency to sleeping pills (for the past 3-weeks anyway). This is the second worst insomnia I've had. I'm an American citizen living in Mexico. Because I live in an elite city near Mexico City, they're really serious about regulating everything here. They've closed nearly everything and everyone's kinda paranoid.

What's it like in the rest of the world?

The direct changes on my life:

• I used to spend about 45 hours a week in the office. Now I spend about 32 hours a week working from home (no need for a lunch break, telemeetings are faster to organize and get together, no face to face meetings with vendors someplace offsite, etc). So less work has been good
• I used to use the company gym facilities three or four days a week. Now I do pushups, situps, arm curls, riding an exercise bike while watching Amazon / Netflix in my living room. So it's a weird experience not getting my workout outside of the house
• My girlfriend is a technician at a hospital. For obvious reasons we can't see each other that often now. This sucks big time
• I am something of a foodie. I enjoy eating out at nice restaurants. Well, my last time out to eat was at a steakhouse in early March. This has really sucked. I thank God I can cook decently
• Not spending money on gas is nice. I fill up the tank every month and a half or so now. I'd do so even less if I wasn't fond of 30 - 45 minutes drives zoning out listening to podcasts or the Jason Ellis Show on SiriusXM
• I now wear a Polo shirt with basketball shorts for part of the day for meetings, straight up pajamas otherwise. Which feels great. Makes me wonder why I ever wore regular clothes in the house in the first place
• I now hate my neighbors kids. They're always outside making noise now while I am trying to work. I used to really like them

 

[Mr Nash]

The only thing that changed is that I can't go to the gym. I have kettle bells at home for basic stuff, but that's not the same as deadlifting a few hundred pounds.

Other than that, still go to work the same as usual, do my shopping just fine, and still spend my free time at home playing video games / reading books. It was nice when almost everyone was cowering at home, and the trains were super quiet.

 

[cryptoadam]

Been working from home since May. Aside from not seeing my family much rest has been pretty normal. It was a little scary here to start because we were the epicenter of Canada. I am in Montreal Quebec. But now the virus is pretty much gone. We have been open for a month and we have about 30 cases a day now. Don't see many people wearing masks and everyone is just going about life as normal. There are plastic plexi glass every where and "bread lines" to get into stores. But aside from that its just about being cautious and mitigating.

Only person I personally know who had the Corona is my 90 year old grandma who was asymptomatic and survived. All though I question now if maybe it was a false positive.

Saw my sister and her kids last week when I brought them Ice Cream and my dad the other week when I had to do some repairs on my car.

 

[Brian Fellows]

I loved being locked down. I slept better. I ate better. I got more exercise. I got more social interaction. And for a while the existential dread of having to go work went away.

Things are pretty much back to normal for now though.


I would gladly take another two months in lockdown.

 

[Stouffers]

I finally got disciplined with my Enzyte regiment.

 

[triplestation]

home life is great as usual

but having to wear a mask out and having this whole air of living in a pandemic world while outside sucks, there is less "life" outside so there's a bit of a constrained feeling, so that is depressing

i miss being in the gym killing it with others, if people were at the gym right now everyone would be honing that beach body getting ready for dat HEAT u feel me, but maybe there is no beach this year

 

[FactoryOfDeception]

Got about 15 paid days off of work. Got free $2900 check. Haven't had to pay daycare costs of $1400 a month since March. Been pretty damn awesome except not being able to vacation and be more social outside of work.

 

[Amory]

Got fat. Drinking too much. Had to cancel my wedding. Tenant got laid off and can't pay her rent.

All in all its been pretty great

 

[Sakura]

Never any real lock down here. Just been business as usual.

 

[BigBooper]

I live in a rural county in the country with a population of 16000 and 7 cases total. The first two months, we were shut down but now no one cares.

 

[Cracklox]

Been ok here actually. Some good some bad.

Best part is I actually feel fitter then I have in years. All this free time, combined with getting a bit older, led me to try to get in shape, before I get too old to actually be in shape. Never really been a gym guy, so I've been reliving my younger days, and playing a tonne of hoops at some local outdoor courts. Its been good keeping up with people who, alot of, are around half my age. Still no where near the shape I was in, in my late teens/early 20's, but at least I can run for more then 100 meters now and not be totally winded

 

[Skyfox]

Ireland here. No one wears masks except me it seems. I wear ski goggles when I go shopping too as the virus can enter through the eyes. People move away from me while they wear no protection whatsoever.

Our supermarkets have hand sanitizers and paper towels and you're supposed to wipe down the handle on the trolley but I've never seen anyone but me do either.

Every day there is pressure to open pubs and bookies. Back in March a large amount of people went to England to watch a horse race. We have never checked anyone at airports regardless of where they came from. I'd be happy about the obvious consequences for these selfish people except they're not only risking their own lives.

Most deaths are in the fledgling nursing home industry. Guess folks (including my own) will be even more reluctant to use those now. My parents never took the virus seriously and so far they're still ok though some of their friends have died. I feel sorry for those caring for the mentally disabled.

I'm not super young and the last few years have been high stress for me (home not work) so my health is in the toilet. I'd made progress to fix this though.

I'm so afraid this thing will mess me up that I've put way more effort into getting healthy faster. I've lost a massive amount of weight and my eating habits have completely changed (vending machines at work had become tap to pay which made it too easy and its harder to get takeout food now).

The quarantine could have been the most awesome time for me as Im a gamer introvert. Unfortunately my marriage has been in a bad place since we had a kid so its been tough.

My kid is supposed to start school in September but we could be in the middle of wave 2 by then.

Its been very hard trying to work from home and have any time to myself with my kid and my wife.

My cooking skills went from reasonable to gourmet. I'd always had difficulty with fish but I've mastered that now too.

I've discovered that my wife has been using our washing machine incorrectly for years (which is why we've had this serious smell problem in the house). Basically shed discovered a way to ensure that all washes are done at 0 temperature. This probably contributed to our kids many health problems. I had been using a laundry service myself

The weather has been GODLY. I live in an area with pretty much the highest rainfall in Europe and it has been glorious for months.

To be fair - my relationship with both my child and my wife has improved but it has come at the cost of my own sanity. My wife has made huge efforts and my kid is thriving.

All in all its been a good thing but its hard to manage my anxiety.

So much fake recycled garbage (of people flying around exotic locations and partying) has gone from 9gag because you can see that its old straight away.

There's less pressure on the wife to have a glitzy globetrotting social life.

I took my kid out of childcare and started working from home IN JANUARY. My wife was displeased at the time. Needless to say we were ahead of the curve and well prepared although my hair is an abomination right now.

All the neighbours have decent haircuts so again, its just me making an effort it seems.

Our binmen never stopped, nor did our postman God bless them. So we didn't reach The Division-levels of chaos.

 

[SpiceRacz]

I'm the only person coming into the office since March. It's been awesome.

 

[GAMETA]

Brazil here. I've been working as a freelancer for 7 years, I'm already used to staying home a lot and thankfully there has been a decent amount of work these past months.

Anxiety was much higher when it all started, now it's kind of turned into acceptance. I gained some weight (I was already pretty fat tbh, but still..), I'm not walking as often anymore and I've been eating shittier, so that definitively makes me worry, but you know how it goes...

I'm more worried about my 10 y.o. son. He hasn't left the house in almost 3 months, and we live in a small apartment... thankfully he's been playing and talking online with his friends from school everyday, so it keeps him socialized and entertained, but I don't know what kind of harm this whole situation will cause. I can tell he's afraid of the virus and he's been sleeping till late too, which is a red flag for depression... it's fucked up and I really worry for him.

My father got it, he's 60... He says he's not too bad and no longer has fever and difficulty breathing, but he has this crazy tiredness that's been going on for a month now. I'm hoping for the best and I truly believe he'll be alright, but there's always the possibility... He also helps my sister and my mother financially, so if something happens I'm not sure how things will go...

My savings can keep me, my son and my wife going for a decent amount of time if needed, but what about everything and everyone else, right? There's definitively anxiety and uncertainty in the air.

 

[JasonVA]

It has been horrible for my health mentally and physically. All my uni classes are online now, and I have to read tons of text book digitally on my monitor, and it has been torture for my eyes.

I also used to swim or play badminton everyday day, and i miss socialising.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Well, since I had a horrible 2019, I hoped for a great 2020.
Didn't work out so well.

It's okay though. I have been through worse.

 

[The Rain King]

I'm doing great. Been chilling at home with the family for nearly fifteen weeks now getting paid, and we all get on really well so that's cool. Only go out to shop for both sets of parents and us, and to walk the dogs. I could do this forever. Just dreading going back to work at this point.
Had to cut my calorie intake twice just to not get fat. Thankfully I have a good home gym that I always used for working out anyway, so nothing has changed in that regard, but I must've been burning crazy calories at work.
Plus more sleep and sex than probably the last 15-20 years which is nice.

 

[MudoSkills]

UK here, working from home since March. Without travel costs, eating out and drinking in pubs my credit card bills have become laughably small. I've been able to see my parents for the last few weeks thanks to the social bubble system, which has been nice.

My vodka consumption has gone way up.

 

[ValiantTraveler]

Moroccan here, the lock-down is now over, it didn’t affect me much and when I see or hear about other people here who lost their jobs or are barely scraping by, I consider myself lucky. I’m a freelancer with no huge bills to pay or a family to feed, so my situation hasn’t changed much, although I’ve had less work in the last three months.

I sure missed going out but the upside was that my expenses went down. Now that the lock-down is over, I miss the quiet and empty street at night. There are too many goddamn noisy bikes and people now.

I used the free time to finish a personal project (writing a short story) and start another (draw a short manga for a contest) as well as play games. Now I’m kinda worried about submitting before the deadline, as going to and back from the gym takes much more time than working out at home. It’s going to be tricky rearranging my schedule to find a new time window.

I work out at home with equipment I got at the last second before the start of confinement. It’s crazy how leg day makes you suffer even with ultra-light weight. I don’t miss the gym though I’m going back to it today.

Mentally speaking, I decided to not let myself be affected by things beyond my control like the virus spreading and the numbers of new cases/deaths. I focus my thoughts on what I can do at the moment—work, play, work out, work on personal projects—so I’ve been doing fine. Frankly I get more spooked by the bizarre synchronicities around the world than the virus itself.

Lastly, when it comes to socializing, I was kinda happy to take a break from being forced to see people I’m not interested into just because we happen to be in the same place or know the same people. But I missed seeing the few friends I have though. I also realized I wanted to meet new people I’d be genuinely excited about being friends with, but I don’t know where to find them. Same thing goes for girls. No matter where I look there’s no one genuinely I’m interested in, everyone is the same and so bland. Maybe it’s me. All in all this lock-down has been an opportunity to think about where I want to be in life but now I don’t know how to put it into practice. But overall I’m doing fine.

 

[betrayal]

German here. For me, the lockdown was pretty relaxing. Where I work is not important, so nothing had changed for me. You could still go out and we live in a quite varied area, so we were regionally limited, but there were more than enough things to do. Also the fact that the gym was closed was not bad, because I am lucky to have a small home gym. The daily tasks with mask were not really a problem and the adjustment only took a very short time.

In the end, I found the entire experience not really bad, quite the opposite. Everything and everyone slowed down a bit and life became slower and more relaxed. But I think it also depends more on how you lived before. For many, problems were only made worse by the situation. I personally don't believe that people have developed anxiety disorders or depression just because of the lockdown. There is always something deeper behind it, which was already there before.

 

[lock2k]

Seeing as NeoGAF has members from all over the world...I wonder how you've all been dealing with quarantine, lock-down, or curfews. Have you changed or how does it bear on you mentally?

For me, I've developed increased anxiety, depression, insomnia, and dependency to sleeping pills (for the past 3-weeks anyway). This is the second worst insomnia I've had. I'm an American citizen living in Mexico. Because I live in an elite city near Mexico City, they're really serious about regulating everything here. They've closed nearly everything and everyone's kinda paranoid.

What's it like in the rest of the world?

It fucking sucks. No, I don't really have anxiety and I sleep whenever I want to because I just feel exhausted every day.

I just want this nightmare to end so I can travel and go to the beach and do stuff.

I also hate living in an apartment. Apartments suck.

Unfortunately Brazil is full of fucking thieves and it ain't safe to live in a house like I used to so I had to move to an apartment. But not having a backyard is like living in fucking prison. The house is always a mess and I wish my daughter had places to run. I really wanted to live by the beach.

Also, working from home with my child at home at the same time is sometimes fucking impossible. I miss my office, it was quiet, I could concentrate like a superhero if I wanted to.

 

[ValiantTraveler]

I'm the only person coming into the office since March. It's been awesome.

Sounds like my dream office job.

Also, working from home with my child at home at the same time is sometimes fucking impossible. I miss my office, it was quiet, I could concentrate like a superhero if I wanted to.

As much as I like dunking on the corporate world, I can’t deny that when you go to an office you get things done as opposed to working at home with someone in the next room talking or moving.

 

[hariseldon]

I got fat and now I'm exercising myself to death to get un-fat. Fuck lockdown.

 

[DogofWar]

I have been on parental leave since before this shittery began. We never had quarantine like that in Sweden but finally an excuse to not meet people all the time. We can keep "social distancing" around even when this has all passed as far as I'm concerned.

 

[lock2k]

Sounds like my dream office job.

As much as I like dunking on the corporate world, I can’t deny that when you go to an office you get things done as opposed to working at home with someone in the next room talking or moving.

Exactly.

I love my daughter more than anything but she is more hyperactive than Alvin and the Chipmunks after snorting coke so it's hard to work (and study) with her by my side all day.

 

[GamingKaiju]

UK here went into lock-down in March I'll admit the first few weeks had me feeling very anxious over Covid, family the NHS etc but around the 3rd week I started going for a run and getting back to my workout regime I've got weights at home and I go running along the canal and that helped do wonders for my mental/physical health coming out of the lock-down I've dropped 16lbs and improved muscle tone/definition but still got some skin I can't do anything with

Now I worry more about the impacts of the lock-down. The job losses/lay offs are already coming in around here hundreds a day at times it's fucking terrible I think my friend is going to lose her job in the hospitality sector and whilst I do maintain locking down for 3 and only 3 weeks was necessary and I would scoof at anyone for saying "the cure is worse than the disease" but they were right. The UK economy is fucked manufacturing is going down the swanny parts of Staffordshire are going to be destroyed and this is before Brexit actually happens with a global depression thrown into the mix.

 

[Sakura Doritos]

Gotten fatter. I work from home about 43-48 hours a week. Somehow I’m working more. Gaf is my only mental distraction. Local grocery stores including Walmart and target are shoulder to shoulder still pretty much all day. The fast food lines are blitzed at all times. Everything shuts down except for a few gas stations and drive through a at 8pm now. Mask is mandatory.

I miss my coworkers in person. I miss going to my local LGS for MTG And DnD. That probably won’t open back up for on-site gaming This year at this rate.

Camping is sketchy from what I’ve seen so my other out of the house hobby is fucked. I’ve not even wanted to go on motorcycle rides riding season because I like rural trips and I can’t count on anything being open.

Basically, I’m alone in a house and I roll out of bed to sit at my computer and there is a good chance I just get back into bed after I get off work.

 

[Happosai]

Florida here. I’ve been working remote, hitting the gym, and visiting the beach. Just trying to have somewhat of a normal routine.

I was at a pool party a couple of weeks back. A couple of guys were there and they recently tested positive for covid-19. Found out yesterday they’re both in the hospital(late 20’s and early 30’s). Ummm, yeah that through me for a loop. I’ll wear the damn mask haha

I wouldn't do a pool party. It would be nice if it was just a group of three. Did any of you get tested after that?

 

[Happosai]

I've had some awful insomnia lately, can't fall asleep unless I get into bed exhausted. Even then, I might find myself suddenly wide awake.

I'm in my 30's but my insomnia started in my early teens. Had it had from panic attacks on 2002 when I was like 14, again during college at 19 in 2007, and the last time I had it in the States was in 2013 after losing an important job. This time it's mostly due to the financial stress and helplessness brought-on by being locked in and doing repetitive things around home. Sorry that you too know what it's like to have insomnia. It wouldn't even fit to call it a nightmare; that would be assuming there is sleep.

 

[Happosai]

home life is great as usual

but having to wear a mask out and having this whole air of living in a pandemic world while outside sucks, there is less "life" outside so there's a bit of a constrained feeling, so that is depressing

i miss being in the gym killing it with others, if people were at the gym right now everyone would be honing that beach body getting ready for dat HEAT u feel me, but maybe there is no beach this year

About wearing a mask...it sucks when it's over an hour. I make short trips out to buy groceries but the lines can be long and the mask is sometimes on for 2 or more hours. When I take it off it feels like a contamination within itself.

 

[Happosai]

Ireland here. No one wears masks except me it seems. I wear ski goggles when I go shopping too as the virus can enter through the eyes. People move away from me while they wear no protection whatsoever.

Our supermarkets have hand sanitizers and paper towels and you're supposed to wipe down the handle on the trolley but I've never seen anyone but me do either.

Every day there is pressure to open pubs and bookies. Back in March a large amount of people went to England to watch a horse race. We have never checked anyone at airports regardless of where they came from. I'd be happy about the obvious consequences for these selfish people except they're not only risking their own lives.

Most deaths are in the fledgling nursing home industry. Guess folks (including my own) will be even more reluctant to use those now. My parents never took the virus seriously and so far they're still ok though some of their friends have died. I feel sorry for those caring for the mentally disabled.

I'm not super young and the last few years have been high stress for me (home not work) so my health is in the toilet. I'd made progress to fix this though.

I'm so afraid this thing will mess me up that I've put way more effort into getting healthy faster. I've lost a massive amount of weight and my eating habits have completely changed (vending machines at work had become tap to pay which made it too easy and its harder to get takeout food now).

The quarantine could have been the most awesome time for me as Im a gamer introvert. Unfortunately my marriage has been in a bad place since we had a kid so its been tough.

My kid is supposed to start school in September but we could be in the middle of wave 2 by then.

Its been very hard trying to work from home and have any time to myself with my kid and my wife.

My cooking skills went from reasonable to gourmet. I'd always had difficulty with fish but I've mastered that now too.

I've discovered that my wife has been using our washing machine incorrectly for years (which is why we've had this serious smell problem in the house). Basically shed discovered a way to ensure that all washes are done at 0 temperature. This probably contributed to our kids many health problems. I had been using a laundry service myself

The weather has been GODLY. I live in an area with pretty much the highest rainfall in Europe and it has been glorious for months.

To be fair - my relationship with both my child and my wife has improved but it has come at the cost of my own sanity. My wife has made huge efforts and my kid is thriving.

All in all its been a good thing but its hard to manage my anxiety.

So much fake recycled garbage (of people flying around exotic locations and partying) has gone from 9gag because you can see that its old straight away.

There's less pressure on the wife to have a glitzy globetrotting social life.

I took my kid out of childcare and started working from home IN JANUARY. My wife was displeased at the time. Needless to say we were ahead of the curve and well prepared although my hair is an abomination right now.

All the neighbours have decent haircuts so again, its just me making an effort it seems.

Our binmen never stopped, nor did our postman God bless them. So we didn't reach The Division-levels of chaos.

Sounds like you guys are on about the same level of quarantine. Enough to make things challenging but not bad on home life. Our rain season just started a few weeks ago. Not enough rain in my opinion (we had like 6-months of dry clear weather). Like some Irish rain here.

 

[JohnHornbuckle]

Just went to the dr yesterday for anxiety depression and insomnia. I feel the worst I’ve felt in my life. Hoping the trazadone works for sleep because as long as I get sleep, the rest is somewhat manageable. Once my sleep goes everything else goes fast.

 

[Happosai]

Brazil here. I've been working as a freelancer for 7 years, I'm already used to staying home a lot and thankfully there has been a decent amount of work these past months.

Anxiety was much higher when it all started, now it's kind of turned into acceptance. I gained some weight (I was already pretty fat tbh, but still..), I'm not walking as often anymore and I've been eating shittier, so that definitively makes me worry, but you know how it goes...

I'm more worried about my 10 y.o. son. He hasn't left the house in almost 3 months, and we live in a small apartment... thankfully he's been playing and talking online with his friends from school everyday, so it keeps him socialized and entertained, but I don't know what kind of harm this whole situation will cause. I can tell he's afraid of the virus and he's been sleeping till late too, which is a red flag for depression... it's fucked up and I really worry for him.

My father got it, he's 60... He says he's not too bad and no longer has fever and difficulty breathing, but he has this crazy tiredness that's been going on for a month now. I'm hoping for the best and I truly believe he'll be alright, but there's always the possibility... He also helps my sister and my mother financially, so if something happens I'm not sure how things will go...

My savings can keep me, my son and my wife going for a decent amount of time if needed, but what about everything and everyone else, right? There's definitively anxiety and uncertainty in the air.

Do you have a roof area or small patio you can get out onto to see the sun every few days? Sorry to hear your Dad got it. Had a step-grandmother die early last month and funerals aren't possible. I'm some places here in Mexico, they take mass amounts of victims to the crematorium and families that request an urn of ashes are getting mixed with many others. For the city where I live, the virus was not in the city until a German contractor brought it in (in early March) upon returning from Italy. He was the 7th Volkswagen and on city has the largest Volkswagen plant in the Republic. It only.took a few weeks before a local upper-class guy brought it into the wealthy part of the city upon returning from somewhere in the U.S. That guy visited the mall, a cinema, his wife to a hair salon, and spread it all over a newer part of our tourist district. By April, everyone knows someone that's been infected.

Keep up the fun posts in other threads and try to get sunlight.

 

[Happosai]

Well, since I had a horrible 2019, I hoped for a great 2020.
Didn't work out so well.

It's okay though. I have been through worse.

2019 was my highest year of productivity since I immigrated in 2016. It was getting really busy in late February and then our city got it's first case the first week of March. By the end of March, everything closed like a coffin.

 

[Happosai]

Moroccan here, the lock-down is now over, it didn’t affect me much and when I see or hear about other people here who lost their jobs or are barely scraping by, I consider myself lucky. I’m a freelancer with no huge bills to pay or a family to feed, so my situation hasn’t changed much, although I’ve had less work in the last three months.

I sure missed going out but the upside was that my expenses went down. Now that the lock-down is over, I miss the quiet and empty street at night. There are too many goddamn noisy bikes and people now.

I used the free time to finish a personal project (writing a short story) and start another (draw a short manga for a contest) as well as play games. Now I’m kinda worried about submitting before the deadline, as going to and back from the gym takes much more time than working out at home. It’s going to be tricky rearranging my schedule to find a new time window.

I work out at home with equipment I got at the last second before the start of confinement. It’s crazy how leg day makes you suffer even with ultra-light weight. I don’t miss the gym though I’m going back to it today.

Mentally speaking, I decided to not let myself be affected by things beyond my control like the virus spreading and the numbers of new cases/deaths. I focus my thoughts on what I can do at the moment—work, play, work out, work on personal projects—so I’ve been doing fine. Frankly I get more spooked by the bizarre synchronicities around the world than the virus itself.

Lastly, when it comes to socializing, I was kinda happy to take a break from being forced to see people I’m not interested into just because we happen to be in the same place or know the same people. But I missed seeing the few friends I have though. I also realized I wanted to meet new people I’d be genuinely excited about being friends with, but I don’t know where to find them. Same thing goes for girls. No matter where I look there’s no one genuinely I’m interested in, everyone is the same and so bland. Maybe it’s me. All in all this lock-down has been an opportunity to think about where I want to be in life but now I don’t know how to put it into practice. But overall I’m doing fine.

You guys have had some nicer weather, too. So, everything is reopened in Morraco (like malls, cinemas, arenas)?

 

[DeepBreath87]

We are finished quarantining were I live. But the jackass governor just tried to mandate masking in all public places (including outside) yesterday. This is the same asshole who marched down the street with thousands of protesters like 3 weeks ago, so he can fuck himself. I agree with wearing masks, but he's such a hack politician. It almost makes me not want to wear one out of spite.

 

[Happosai]

It fucking sucks. No, I don't really have anxiety and I sleep whenever I want to because I just feel exhausted every day.

I just want this nightmare to end so I can travel and go to the beach and do stuff.

I also hate living in an apartment. Apartments suck.

Unfortunately Brazil is full of fucking thieves and it ain't safe to live in a house like I used to so I had to move to an apartment. But not having a backyard is like living in fucking prison. The house is always a mess and I wish my daughter had places to run. I really wanted to live by the beach.

Also, working from home with my child at home at the same time is sometimes fucking impossible. I miss my office, it was quiet, I could concentrate like a superhero if I wanted to.

We all miss the beach. It's now July and we were going to go to a water park in Morelos...they're not opening it. A lot of thieves here but one a positive note, people being home most of the day has left most of our thieves to attempt small jobs like stealing from has station stores or street vendors. Prior to the pandemic, we were out half the week and nearly every house on my street has been broken into. Everyone bought security cameras, lights, and such...but the damage was already done.

 

[JimiNutz]

Been through worse for sure but I'm drinking more alcohol and am becoming more introverted.

I was already becoming a bit more antisocial the older I got but now that I've basically spent 3 months inside I have no desire to go out unless its into the woods with the dogs where I can be by myself.

I'm also not in my best shape due to no gym or boxing. I do run and workout at home with kettlebells and my pull up/dip station but it's not quite the same.

 

[GAMETA]

Do you have a roof area or small patio you can get out onto to see the sun every few days? Sorry to hear your Dad got it. Had a step-grandmother die early last month and funerals aren't possible. I'm some places here in Mexico, they take mass amounts of victims to the crematorium and families that request an urn of ashes are getting mixed with many others. For the city where I live, the virus was not in the city until a German contractor brought it in (in early March) upon returning from Italy. He was the 7th Volkswagen and on city has the largest Volkswagen plant in the Republic. It only.took a few weeks before a local upper-class guy brought it into the wealthy part of the city upon returning from somewhere in the U.S. That guy visited the mall, a cinema, his wife to a hair salon, and spread it all over a newer part of our tourist district. By April, everyone knows someone that's been infected.

Keep up the fun posts in other threads and try to get sunlight.

Unfortunately no. We were going to a park very close to where I live in the begging, but cases started popping up in the region, and now, 2 and half months later the numbers are pretty alarming.

We haven't taken direct sunlight in a while, I live to the south of the country where it gets really cold and cloudy in autumn/winter, so the sun isn't out much anyway, but yep, it's not an ideal situation.

I know of family members of colleagues and friends that died too. It's definitively a lot closer now than what it was even a month ago. Exponential growth, right? You don't see it coming but then it's right in your face.

The spread here was kind of the same, rich playboys brought it in and what pisses me off is that they don't really seem to bother and are mostly the ones ignoring safety measures. Fucking cunts.


Thanks man, keep it safe too

 

[Belmonte]

It has being ages since I slept as badly. And I'm worried about my old parents who aren't used to be in house for so much time per day, specially my father, who has diabetes. The economy crisis deepening and the political unrest in the world and in my country are very worrying also.

I can't complain though since, despite the stress, it could be way worse. I feel blessed I have food, a roof, a loving family and I'm not in immediate danger of losing any of them.