How has coronavirus impacted you?

My twins are home from college.

My son gets another year of scholarship for track season that was just cancelled....that saves him and us 20  grand or so...no complaints there.

I have to attend countless preparedness meetings that accomplish nothing because nobody can predict where this is headed.  We literally sometimes hear back to back "experts" with views/predictions that are polar opposites.

We have decided to commence a quarantine for my elderly mother-in-law.  She lives alone, very close to us, so it's doable.  From what I have read, and her medical history, contracting the virus would almost certainly kill her.

Did I mention the girls are home from college?

I have not looked at my retirement accounts, and have no plan to, until the markets get back to a level that makes me want to.

I have no reason to watch TV since sports are gone.

We have more food at home than we can eat in 6 months, including 2 freezers full of beef, deer, fish, ducks, geese, bacon, etc. (not stockpiled, just normal)  I can always kill more if we need to, but I can't imagine that happening.

My daughters are home from college......and I don't know how to get rid of them. 

Well, school is cancelled starting Monday, so I'll have my kids at home. Not a big deal since I'm self-employed, but people in my community are already organizing ways to help each other with childcare for working folks and shopping for the elderly. 

My kids sports are all cancelled for the time being, so I've got a lot of time on my hands now that I don't have to haul them to practices and meets all the time! 

My husband and I are both small business owners. He builds homes, mostly second homes in resort towns. I sell super expensive art. Both are luxury items, so I suspect we'll lose the majority of our income this year due to the stock market and economy. We had a banner year last year, and are fine to ride it out for a while though.

I also own a ski rental in Winter Park - so far haven't had any spring break cancellations, which is actually pretty surprising to me. 

My husband is building an affordable housing apartment complex down in Denver. I'm sure it will do quite well if the economy is sluggish for a while. Kind of glad we have that on the horizon instead of just luxury second homes! 

I live in a somewhat small town in the mountains outside of Denver. Hysteria hit us slowly - I was seeing pictures of empty toilet paper shelves elsewhere for a while, and mystified as our stores were completely stocked all last week. But people cleared everything out on Wednesday night, I think mostly because things were getting cancelled right and left and it was clear that if the schools cancel, we should all do our best to just stay in more.

Stacers - re: your comment on Spring Break.  The college kids have no fear of this.  They've seen the stats and they know it won't kill them, or even make them all that sick in most cases.  My kids all said the biggest parties of the year came with the school closing announcements, and waves of those kids are taking advantage  of cheap air fare to make a trip while school is shut down.  I can't convince mine to go, they won't leave while grandma is locked down.....pretty cool actually, but not for me.  LOL

Oh, I agree the college kids aren't super worried. Our place is a high-end 4-bedroom house, so most of our winter renters are in their 50s, coming from out of state with families to ski. My next renters are a bunch of 40-something overgrown frat boys who stayed last year and left us a lifetime supply of tequila when they checked out. I can't see them cancelling either...

My wife and I were talking last night about all of the colleges closing down.  I certainly understand the idea behind it, since college dorms are basically germ factories, but it's kind of ironic that it wouldn't impact the kids any more then the common cold in most cases.....but the professors and the administrators making the decision to stay open or get away from the possible "carriers" is another thing altogether....they chose to save their own arses.  LOL

They are calling for die down here by the end of April.....so we may not see 2 quarters of negative growth.  That makes sense, since most of that is based on climate from what we've been told.

Yes, true.  Except there are folks who don't agree with Fauci. LOL   Actually, from my experiences this week.....none of these bastards can agree with each other.  HA!!

Schools will close down as of Monday. For 6 weeks. All sports cancelled. Races, gatherings, scouts... My sister is all up in arms about "bans" on gatherings of 250 or more affecting churches. So my 6-yr-old will be home for 6 weeks, and we're thinking it'll be about a week before she's crawling the walls. My wife is fielding the idea of taking a trip to maybe the Redwoods...

In my day-job employer of 100k+ folks, there have been 7 confirmed cases. General panic is the order of the day.

But the taekwondo dojang will still be open.

Drastic impact for my house. I teach second grade - school is out so I don't know what the heck I'm doing right now. I'm trying to put packets of work together since we are not 1:1 with technology. I'm getting really depressed as these packets of work are not what make my students want to write me notes about how they love school on the back of their math tests and tell me daily how they want to stay in second grade forever. I am fairly certain my 11 year old daughter and 13 year old son are NOT going to be writing me notes thanking me for being their teacher for the next few weeks.......

So yeah, I will be home with my son and daughter trying to keep them motivated to learn and keep their neighborhood friends a safe social distance away. 

My husband is a school admin. His phone does not stop chirping. 

I have not been to the store. Dollar General is 1/2 mile walk from my house. They just got in a truck load of toilet paper. We've got a freezer full of beef and some chicken. I finally let my 13 year old take the hunters safety course back in February. I'm sure he'd love to take his bow and arrow and get some rabbits for dinner!

None of us are currently sick but personally I know I am exposed to an abnormal amount of germs due to my job and feel I could be a carrier of any numerous things but not realize it. 

And now it's gotten worse. You've probably all seen it in the news. Governor has now banned all gatherings of 50 or more, and less than 50 only if they can prove compliance with certain sanitary guidelines. Bars, restaurants, all places of entertainment or recreational use are all closed. So much for the dojang.

My wife sent out her morning greeting on the family group text this morning.  She left detailed instructions about where and how to use the cleaning products at the house.  My favorite was, "I put Clorox wipes on the counter.  These are for hard surfaces, but not the granite.  Use soap and water on the granite." 

Apparently, we don't want the coronavirus, but we REALLY don't want the granite to get forked up. 

Yes it is.  My 87 year old mother-in-law lives near us and, for the most part, my wife spends most nights there.  She has anxiety issues since her husband died so we do all we can to mitigate that.  We have her isolated now, because she has prior lung issues and it's doubtful she could survive infection.  My wife got a call from her a few nights ago that was pretty disturbing......the isolation idea may not work out with her having meds readily available.  No easy answers.

The impact on  my life has been trivial, for the most part

• cancelled cocktail party with my friends/neighbors
• cancelled May trip to Quebec City
• cancelled April trip to Tampa for regatta
• local college has closed, so I can't use their pool. I woke this morning to learn someone from the Athletic Dept tested positive and that put me a little on edge
• my gym is closed; no big deal as I was going to cancel once ice/snow was gone from roads which it has
• I wear mask and gloves when I shop for groceries (we were well provisioned before shelves started emptying, thanks to my years of hurricane prep habit) and I shop just once/week to minimize risk
• we take our temp in the morning and at bedtime

My husband was DX with asthma last year; he is in high risk demographic so I worry about picking up the virus and giving it to him. Our plan is for him to limit contact to only me. If he gets antsy (he does), he can go for a drive but not get out of the car/interact with anyone.

Staying home is my jam, sheltering in place is my norm. I sowed 10 flats  of seed trays a month ago, so I've got plenty to occupy my time. Soil is *almost* workable. I've got lots of work to do in the garden.

My youngest sister lives in Bergamo, Italy with her family. She texted me a couple of days ago and said "tell everyone you know not to go outside without a mask." Things are brutal there, but fortunately she's been taking this seriously for some time now.

There are 135 ICU beds in the entire state of Maine. I read today that you are contagious before you have symptoms or fever.

Everyone knows by now that youngsters are susceptible to serious illness, too, right?  And no age group is exempt from being a carrier and transmitting to others.

Good luck, everyone. I hope you, your family, friends, and health care providers remain healthy.

Strange times.