Is anyone working today?

[faisalhussein394]

Hello everyone,

Hope everyone is doing fine and staying safe.

Consider the title, I, despite the restriction in Kuwait to stay in their homes, we are still allowed to go from 8 am to 4 pm, which means I am still working in a company called San Ramon starting from 8:30 am to 3 pm. I think it has something to do with the company being private is the reason why me and the others are allowed to go outside and big companies such as Mawaqqa is still closed, but from now on Sunday at 4pm, everyone is restricted from going out for 20 days, that's right, until the end of this month, I don't know if this is fake news or not, but I am not going to risk my life of getting caught by the police. However, I am a graphic designer, which means I will still work at home and earn for a living.

How about you guys? What's the situation in your country and life?

For my country in Jordan, it is by far if the news is true, the least pandemic and it seems to have one of the least deaths from the virus which shows they're not joking when they said that they are very invested in health care.

[Iris-Grimoire]

I'm in Brazil, which if anyone's been willing to read the depressing news of, isn't being too consistent. I'm in one of the cities listing full lockdown though thankfully, so most things are delivery-only; and even if I had an office job it'd probably be a no-go except for essential stores (which I wouldn't be able to do either, risk group). My roomate was let go this week which isn't good, but they worked in another city and the company was happy to let things continue as normal despite having 3 cases, so maybe it was for the better.

So... Just advertising commissions, sending as many home office applications as I can, trying to get illustration jobs, and my comic, really.

[faisalhussein394]

These are difficult times, I wish for you the best of luck on your application jobs and your comic.

[Azifri]

Yeah, I'm working pretty much as usual, although mentally I'm not focusing much to be honest. I wish I was in my country, where life is gradually going back to normal after lockdown, but unfortunately the pandemic caught me while living in Sweden, where they haven't done any lockdowns and are now ranking top 7 in deaths per million people. For a country with decent infrastructure, a generally low population density, and geographically separated from central Europe, this is shameful. I'm not gonna rant about the specifics, just say that I'm very grateful my parents don't live here, and I certainly know one place where I don't want to become old.

[vothnthorvaldson]

I got the same news about the Kuwait lockdown from my in-laws, I think my father in law can work from home for a while, after that, I don't know what it will mean for him

Here in Canada (SK), no lockdown, but everything is slowed down significantly.
It does not mean a lot for me on the production part (farming), except that I have a lot of supplies missing, so I spend a lot of time repairing old supplies etc.
Selling, however, has become very, very difficult. The province took weird decisions regarding who's allowed, and how we're allowed, to sell food; it was for avoiding contagion obviously, but it disrupted the local food supply and is making us lose money,
and our customer not get the food . Right now the main way we sell is by delivering ourselves, but small amounts delivered 60km away is not worth it.
However, discussion is ongoing with the province to reestablish the local food supply chain.

[Rhonder]

I'm from the West Coast of the US, near Seattle. My company has had everyone (there's only 5 of us) working from home since the last week of March or so, so that's what I've been up to. Same boat as @Azifri though- technically working at "full capacity" although my level of focus has been diminishing the deeper in we go. I've worked a number of like 3.5-4 hour days the last few weeks for example Between taking long lunches, getting distracted around the house, or running low on things to do and not bothering to ask for more until the following day, etc. Things are a little slow for me right now anyways, as many of our architecture projects are entering the construction phase currently but I'm a draftsman and so can't do much to help on them... but then we're still in the process of looking for more work especially in the current climate lol I'm big time ready to be allowed to work at the office again though, whenever it's safe to do so.

Regarding other people in the area: My roommate for example got furloughed from her job (she works at a building material manufacturing plant), and some of my other friends range from either working full time still (grocery employees) to on-call very limited hours (I have a friend who works in Physical Therapy who has been scrounging for scraps of work whenever he can get it- he works for a local chain so various clinics occasionally contact him to fill in for a day here or there but he hasn't had steady work since this all began). My area is fairly compliant with the stay at home orders though, there's not as many people openly defying them and congregating in large groups as some other parts of the country thankfully xD Same kind of deal with some smaller private companies continuing to operate regardless of what the state rules are, though. My boss has swung by our office a number of times to pick up mail and check our voicemail and such and seen a number of cars in our parking lot, implying some of the other units around ours have people still coming in for work.

[brilliiant]

Glad you're all keeping well for the most part - the virus is taking a toll on all of us mentally, and threads like this are a good way to check in with people, even if you don't know them!

Here in Toronto we don't have a lockdown going on yet, but because of population density everyone's pretty paranoid about social distancing and so the streets are pretty quiet (unless it's sunny out, then all bets are off because everyone thinks good weather = no contagions for some reason). I work in the film industry and the unions basically have a stop work order on all production until further notice. Everyone I know in my line of work is going berserk.

Strange times, people.

[DarJodo]

What produce do you . . . produce? What are your storage options?

[sarahmassey998]

Right now in America it depends on what state you're in, mines pretty much locked down but there are plans to start reopening. I'm working from home or rather from my brother's house (he has wifi). I feel very fortunate that I'm able to stay home and work and my brother has dogs so my coworkers are pretty chill. We live in a rural area and there are many that aren't so lucky. Farmers that have winter crop don't have anywhere to send it to and the local butchers and meat processing plants have requests until Jan 1 next year. Since we're hicks with a carnivorous diet the rumors of meat shortages but you know first world issues. So long as I have pasta and the ability to stream I'll be ok but its a catch 22. We need to stay in to stop the pandemic but most people can't survive much longer on their savings.
Man 2020, sometimes it seems like the Mayans were off by 8 years.

[faisalhussein394]

Hope the government have a solution of not just keeping people safe, but also to earn their salary. For god's sake, all people need it for their bills and food on the table. Companies can't keep paying if their employees aren't working.

[faisalhussein394]

To think this year would be better than last year, oh how wrong we are in the most unfortunate situation.

[amortelito]

I worked at home anyways, but I miss the freelance painting jobs. My brother and mom are working from home now and we are safe, I feel blessed.

We don't go out at all, my city has the highest death rates in the whole country. People don't respect the quarantine and keep partying and traveling. A family of idiots were partying, one of them got Coronavirus. When he died they forcefully entered the morgue of a public hospital, recorded the corpses and accused the doctors of killing their relative. Then made the conspiracy that COVID doesn't really exist and doctors kill you to steal your "knee fluid" because it costs millions of dollars. It is the funniest meme this year🤣🤣🤣. But is infuriating to read stupid people believing baseless conspiracies, fortunately most people are not like that.

Stay safe and watch out your knee fluid. ️

[unknown_user]

Then made the conspiracy that COVID doesn't really exist and doctors kill you to steal your "knee fluid" because it costs millions of dollars.

Wow. That's a new stuff to hear for me. In our country, conspiracy theorists are more into 5G thing.
This pandemic constantly shows how many people are idiots.

[vothnthorvaldson]

At this time of the year, only fresh green stuff (spinach, pea shoots, small radishes with tops, etc), so no storage possible

[Rhonder]

To think this year would be better than last year

On this note, a band I like put out a song on their new album early last year that has the line "2019 is a fucking disaster" and it's like "hooooo boy, if you think 2019 is bad, just wait until 2020" LOL

@amortelito - that's... simultaneously the stupedist, saddest, and most hilarious thing I've heard in some time Dearly sorry that people with so little bearing in reality or concern for others are so nearby for you u_u

[amortelito]

@Rhonder I know right? Apparently when a doctor sees you all they can think of is the way they can steal your knee fluid.🤣🤣🤣

@tired_programmer at least 5g conspiracy sounds slightly more sophisticated than the black market of knee liquids. It is a secondhand embarrassment. You are so right, during emergencies we can see who truly is an idiot. Most people I know don't belive such absurd theories but they have shared a couple of fake news. Nobody is safe from believing some tricky/twisted facts but it's frustrating to see so many posts that are clearly fake and unreasonable being shared.

[faisalhussein394]

Thank you, now I'm going to watch over my "Knee fluids" whenever I meet a doctor.

[DiegoPalacios]

In Chile, some colleges and schools are doing online classes now, others are just closed. Companies who can afford it are implementing a work from home system.

The streets seem way more empty, but sadly, that doesnt stop some citicens from being reckless and foolish.

[faisalhussein394]

They should've known better, this is 2020 and people are still dumb enough to make risky decisions despite knowing the consequences.

[snowy]

I work as a nurse in a residential care home, so I never stopped working. So yay, I still have a job.

Not so yay : 6 deaths in the last two months, 3 confirmed, others never tested. Seven co-workers caught it, most recovered, others still suffering through (Guys, don't try to catch this thing just to "get it over with". I've been to covid wards, you DO NOT want to get this).

I don't live in the US, so FEMA and the FBI haven't raided our PPE stash. It's getting to the point where we have to re-use some of it though. Every time I go up to the dementia ward I have to dress up like I'm going to Chernobyl.

Could write more, not gonna. Too tired, too angry. Wear the fucking masks, people.