What effect is the Coronavirus having on your work life and personal life?

Hey Ben! This has really affected alot of people, personally I am trying so hard to grow from this experience from a technical perspective and see what other companies are doing to help out with this. Some are giving out free tooling and infrastructure to build COVID project. I am using this to build an app that could help other people and wrote a blog post about it dev.to/tweettamimi/how-i-built-an-...

1) no
2) no need
3) yes, in everyway possible
4) can plan on attending any conference because if the lock down.

I live in Argentina. We have now 158 confirmed cases. The government has ordered a health emergency state, wich means only authorized people can move around. People working on healthcare, energy, public services, media, government and some few economic activities.

The rest of us must remain isolated, to avoid spreading the virus and collapsing health system. All the experts say this is the right thing to do, so home office is a must. I've been helping my clients to adapt to this. My full workflow is remote-able so I'm doing business as usual.

Things seem to be pretty hard everywhere.

The NJ and NY state government announced an 8pm curfew today until further notice. We will be working remotely for at least the next week.

I live in EU.

Things continue to escalate. Work started sanitizing everything and "educating" people on washing hands, etc. Then major conference attendance and non-essential travel was cancelled. Now everyone is told to work from home "until further notice". This has severely impacted certain aspects of the business although I can easily program at home.

Today borders are shut to anyone that doesn't live or work here. I was planning on visiting my girlfriend in Eastern Europe, but that’s all on hold since her country is implementing similar measures.

Some days I’m irritated or indifferent about the whole thing, but I bought some non perishables for my otherwise barren kitchen just to feel less anxious. I was in Asia during SARS and other crises, but this is completely different.

The whole corona thing didn't seem much at first, but as it keeps spreading and spreading relentlessly it's going to have an impact on almost everybody sooner or later. Even if you don't catch it you'll be bombarded the whole day with news about it, major events will be canceled (or are already), travel will be discouraged or disallowed, you will go out less, economy is impacted, stocks are crashing, and so on and so forth.

I fear this "thing" will be with us and will dominate our lives (if not physically then mentally) for some time to come, and not in a good way, it's gonna be a drag, and way bigger than I initially thought.

I was triangulating between work on west side of town, night class on east side of town, and home which is midtown Toronto. Having the chance to work from home is making me less tired.

I work freelance on location. To day I was kindly asked to work from home starting tomorrow. So companies in Denmark are starting to take precautions which I think is a good thing.

An awesome conference that I planned on attending won't be happening anytime soon because if COVID-19. If curious: V LED Forum.

I went to the mall today in Sydney (Westfield) to buy a pair of running shoes (because I'm going to run, virus be damned!) and Every. Single. Shopping. Cart. has a huge 36+ roll toilet paper pack.

My company has contingency discussions about what happens if there's a lock down (not out of the realms of possibility in super cautious Australia).

Despite this thing being in 90+ countries, best estimates are in low 1000s of deaths. Numbers do not indicate apocalypse. I have immunocompromised friends and relatives and of course do not wish this or any other serious illness upon, and of course, we haven't had a global pandemic in a while. But let's wait and see.