Tempus
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For my wife and I, we've barely even noticed there was a shutdown.
There have been a few shopping trips early on where some of our normal items weren't available but we'd just substitute or try new things. Our pantry is pretty well stocked so there really wasn't any time were there was a real concern regarding food supplies.
I work for a healthcare related company on the administration/business intelligence side. Before COVID, I worked from home 100%. All of my co-workers are just faces on a WebEx and always have been.
My wife and I have no real social life. We don't have any friends to see regularly. We have acquaintances that we see sometimes once a year at a conference we sometimes attend (this was an off year for us so we wouldn't have seen anyone anyway). We rarely if ever dine out. Haven't been to a theater in almost a decade.
We spend our evenings taking walks or being out in the backyard observing with a telescope (and binoculars). On weekends we take long drives into the 'countryside' of north Texas. Sometimes we'll park in the shade, open the side doors and 'picnic' in the shade next to our van. Sometimes we'll just break out our zero-gravity chairs and watch the wind blow through the trees. Biggest thing we've noticed is that the camp areas we normally may escape to for a weekend have all been booked. Hopefully as the weather gets colder and the fair weather campers will stay home.
When we shop we always go right when the store opens on Sunday morning. We've done this longer than I can remember. It's nice having the store to ourselves and 7AM on Sunday is always a quiet time to shop. Of course now we mask up and practice social distancing but really, that amounts to less than an hour a week in an essentially empty store.
We have no children and that means we've not had home schooling to contend with. We feel bad for parents that are having that issue.
Our closest extended family members live over 600 miles away and we only visit them every two or three years so nothing missing that.
To be honest, COVID hasn't been much more than a thing we read about online.
There have been a few shopping trips early on where some of our normal items weren't available but we'd just substitute or try new things. Our pantry is pretty well stocked so there really wasn't any time were there was a real concern regarding food supplies.
I work for a healthcare related company on the administration/business intelligence side. Before COVID, I worked from home 100%. All of my co-workers are just faces on a WebEx and always have been.
My wife and I have no real social life. We don't have any friends to see regularly. We have acquaintances that we see sometimes once a year at a conference we sometimes attend (this was an off year for us so we wouldn't have seen anyone anyway). We rarely if ever dine out. Haven't been to a theater in almost a decade.
We spend our evenings taking walks or being out in the backyard observing with a telescope (and binoculars). On weekends we take long drives into the 'countryside' of north Texas. Sometimes we'll park in the shade, open the side doors and 'picnic' in the shade next to our van. Sometimes we'll just break out our zero-gravity chairs and watch the wind blow through the trees. Biggest thing we've noticed is that the camp areas we normally may escape to for a weekend have all been booked. Hopefully as the weather gets colder and the fair weather campers will stay home.
When we shop we always go right when the store opens on Sunday morning. We've done this longer than I can remember. It's nice having the store to ourselves and 7AM on Sunday is always a quiet time to shop. Of course now we mask up and practice social distancing but really, that amounts to less than an hour a week in an essentially empty store.
We have no children and that means we've not had home schooling to contend with. We feel bad for parents that are having that issue.
Our closest extended family members live over 600 miles away and we only visit them every two or three years so nothing missing that.
To be honest, COVID hasn't been much more than a thing we read about online.
