How is COVID-19 affecting you?
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:52 am
Inspired by a post over on AGS...how has your life changed (or not) in the last couple of weeks? Not a lot of sports going on, obviously, but we all have stuff we're dealing with because of the current situation.
My wife and I are both working from home now...thankfully both of us have jobs where we can do that. My kids "art desk" has now become my work space. Kids are getting stuff from their teachers online, with my daughter having twice-daily zoom meetings with her class and teacher (there's only 12 kids in the class). My wife, my kids, and I are all pretty "low risk", so we're not too worried for ourselves, but I worry about my parents (late 60's), my wife's parents (also late '60s), and my grandmother (89). I think they're all doing a pretty good job of staying home though. Also worried about my wife's sister who's a ER nurse in Killeen, TX (and some of what she's been texting us is getting pretty scary), as well as my own sister who is a daycare worker at a YMCA in the Chicago suburbs. The Y she works at is shut down, but the daycare is still open because of the kids of people who do still have to work out of the home.
Went out for a run around campus yesterday...it was pretty dead out there obviously. Not sure if I'll be able to do that in the future with the new on-campus restrictions though (temperature and ID checks for anyone on campus starting tomorrow).
How about you guys? What's going on with you? How are you coping with a lack of sports? I hear ESPN has started up "The Ocho" on ESPN2 where they're airing really obscure sporting events from the last year or so.
My wife and I are both working from home now...thankfully both of us have jobs where we can do that. My kids "art desk" has now become my work space. Kids are getting stuff from their teachers online, with my daughter having twice-daily zoom meetings with her class and teacher (there's only 12 kids in the class). My wife, my kids, and I are all pretty "low risk", so we're not too worried for ourselves, but I worry about my parents (late 60's), my wife's parents (also late '60s), and my grandmother (89). I think they're all doing a pretty good job of staying home though. Also worried about my wife's sister who's a ER nurse in Killeen, TX (and some of what she's been texting us is getting pretty scary), as well as my own sister who is a daycare worker at a YMCA in the Chicago suburbs. The Y she works at is shut down, but the daycare is still open because of the kids of people who do still have to work out of the home.
Went out for a run around campus yesterday...it was pretty dead out there obviously. Not sure if I'll be able to do that in the future with the new on-campus restrictions though (temperature and ID checks for anyone on campus starting tomorrow).
How about you guys? What's going on with you? How are you coping with a lack of sports? I hear ESPN has started up "The Ocho" on ESPN2 where they're airing really obscure sporting events from the last year or so.