I live in a state under a Governor's lockdown (Ohio). So far, from what I can tell, unless you live in the metropolitan area of New York city or are a health care provider, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused little to no disruption in the day to day activities of most people.
Ditto. I mean I’m not allowed to go to the dentist. My work schedule is the same. Might’ve added 15 or 20 minutes to my grocery shopping trip, but that’s the worst of it
I live just outside DC and about 2 blocks from a hospital. I can't find toilet paper anywhere... Other than that the impact is largely just there isn't much to do. My entire office went full time telework and I am lucky enough that I can keep working but we have 3 confirmed cases among the employees (all coming from our parent company). My wife went to a conference right at the beginning of May before the whole thing blew up and she has been informed that other attendees are confirmed as having cases but it has been over 2 weeks now and she is fine. So we are seeing cases just sort of 2 steps removed. It's weird you see a mix of people who laugh and joke about how it's nothing at all (the county had to take the basketball hoops down from public courts because people kept showing up and playing big basketball games at the public courts) and people who refuse to leave their houses at all. The entire point of living under lockdown is so that it doesn't turn into NYC through the whole country though. That's the part that people have trouble understanding. You want it all to feel like it was overblown -- because that means it worked!
Little to no disruption? They've shut down all schools, restaurants and bars....Quite honestly, I can't remember a time when my day to day life was MORE disrupted.
About the only change I'm experiencing is that I now have to spend 24/7 sitting on the front porch telling the neighborhood rugrats to "get off my lawn!"
Yeah, the disruption is pretty severe here just because the insignificant other and I are both forced to work from home in the same space. Sharing the same bandwidth makes the internet tricky at times, as we both do data work over VPN connections to secure data servers. We aren't officially under shelter-in-place yet, but we can't go out to a bar or theater or restaurant or even take the dogs to the park. It's difficult to get away from each other, and the acoustics in our mostly open floor plan are such that if she's on a phone call, I pretty much can't do anything inside the house. Outside either, for that matter, as it has been raining every day for the last week. That's causing some raised tempers. Throw in the rest of it, like the grocery store having no toilet paper, hamburger meat, milk, very few frozen entrees or canned goods, etc, and it's a pretty extreme change. As soon as the cruise lines are back up and running, I'm booking a trip (alone) just to get away and regain my sanity. At this point, I'll risk it. And she will be thrilled to have me out of the way. Hopefully she'll book a trip of her own shortly before or after mine so we can double the vacation.