Yep, a COVID-19 vent thread

So apparently my next door neighbor tested positive for corona, and she's a nurse. Almost all of the cases are nurses here in my county. 

Apparently they've been going out into public right after being exposed to the same corona patients, in their nurse scrubs, exposing the public to their nurse scrubs that they just saw the corona patients in. Because of this, our county has literally jumped a dozen cases of corona within a few days. They just now realized this.

 I found this out from my best friend (irl) who works at the hospital in the front office desk. Apparently they just delivered the news of this to the entire hospital today, and are working to keep it mostly in the staff, so as to not freak out the public. Yet almost all of the cases seem to be nurses? Are they just getting each other sick? 

What in the actual fuck is going on at the hospital?

Job security is really up in the air atm with the ships being recalled to port and some seasonal youth staff I'm pals with from a previous contract have told me they've been laid off. Work asked me to cover April half term about 5 times but I couldn't commit because my mock exam fell right in the middle of that rotation so I'm glad I couldn't do it and instead did a longer Christmas contract and covered February half term or I would of lost a month's worth of money. I am looking into logistics of covering nights at supermarkets on a temporary basis just in case I get laid off then at least I still have some money behind me for uni. Right now my priority is cramming that math mock exam and sending it back since my result for that directly impacts on if I'll be able to progress my career or not and I just don't have the energy nor patience to do long-winded job apps on top of cramming the last min studying.

I'm re-sitting math through adult education which has now been suspended, they've also confirmed they're judging the results through the mock exam and classwork. I was supposed to sit the mock 2 weeks from now but now I have to do it in 3 days time which is why I'm cramming revision - I did start revising months earlier than I needed to there's still some topics I haven't had a chance to cover. I was planning to move onto these topics regardless because they were the last 3 topics I needed to go over but they're not small topics (algebra, geometry and trigonometry) I have been staying up to 4am cramming where I was hoping to spread those out over the next 2 weeks. 

So yeah where it didn't initially affect me I am starting to get rather stressed with the situation. I just didn't realize how stressed out I was over it until I snapped and lost my shit over Royal Mail disregarding "safe place" delivery instructions and told me to pick it up at the sorting office which I was trying to avoid because organizing a lift to the sorting office is a pain in the ass. I'm annoyed at myself for getting as angry and bitchy as I did over that - kinda embarrassing really (I have apologized to those I needed to) but when I am under a lot of stress it is often something really trivial like the internet refusing to connect that's the thing that finally makes me snap. Doesn't make my behavior yesterday excusable but does show how much it was affecting me without me realizing.

I have another full week before I'm allowed to return to work from being sick... I'm trying to make the most of my time off, get some things done, feel better, enjoy just hanging out, but I'm also so stir crazy. Our cupboards are... not well stocked, and I'm pretty sick of being hungry all day too.

The whole point of making this thread was so the vent boards weren't all Coronavirus vents. And once this hopefully blows over, we can all drop this board and let it die.

Any of y'all who are making extra threads are kind of missing the whole point of lets keep the spam to a minimum here.. 

My local area is now on lockdown. As if I wasn't stressed enough already. I don't have a job or any outside obligations, so it's not like I have a reason to go out, but man. 

This whole situation's been stressing me out to no end, scaring me and making me paranoid like I'm watching society itself fall apart at the seams, and now the lockdowns have reached where I live. 

We're still allowed to go outside and to the store, so at least there's that...but my relatives have already begun rationing essentials out of fear. It seriously feels like the fucking apocalypse.

I'm going to lose my mind.

I hate how tense and uppity people are getting because of the quarantine. So many people are on edge and snapping over the smallest things. People keep fighting over the most meaningless things because of the tension of being inside. 

Friends are biting friends heads off over senseless things, all because it's only been a week or two and their stir crazy. 

Everyone is so tense and bordering the line of irritation constantly that it's like you have to walk on eggshells about everything you say now. 

It's exhausting. I miss normal conversation. 

Yeah no, I can't do it anymore. This quarantine shit is gonna make me so fucking depressed, it isn't even funny. I can't do my work and my mom is yelling at me because "it's an excuse". It's not. I can't focus. Any idea she gives me isn't gonna work because trust me, I could try, and it just wont. I need SCHOOL. They fucking cancelled school until the end of April and I am THIS CLOSE to fucking giving up and saying "fuck it, i'll stay in school for 2 more years." Because I. Am. Tired. I'm DONE. This shit is fucking stupid, and I'm really upset. I need human contact. I need it. I really can't do this shit anymore. Imma lose my fucking mind.

So my husband and I were planning on selling our house and moving halfway across the country. I quit my job to get the house ready for selling, and then this hit. Husband went to work from home last week. Just got the news today that he's being laid off along with 50% of his fortune 500 company. All of our plans just went out the window, our income just dropped to zero, and I can't leave the house because I'm at risk due to asthma and a history of pneumonia.

Also my mom is facing rather immediate homelessness and I don't know how to help her.

Trying to stay strong but oh my god this is a lot.

rosieoci don't feel bad for not being able to focus- that's something a lot of people deal with. Some people need to be in a work/school environment, and just can't mix the two. I'm sorry your mom's making you feel bad about it :/

I'm lucky to be a big giant introverted hermit- but for those of you who aren't, maybe look into livestreaming stuff? I know a lot of musicians are doing livestream concerts. Skype your friends (do people still skype?) and also call your other family members who probably feel similarly trapped! I know my family is making an effort to call my aunt, who is in a nursing home and not allowed any visitors. 

People who don't need to hoard, who are overreacting, emptying stories, are stressing me out. They are stressing me out more than the virus. These people are genuinely more terrifying than the virus. They don't even bother to think about the people who need those resources more than them. 

It makes me worried for my friends with disabilities, who might not make it because of those people, I literally have a friend where if their body gets too cold, their heart stops beating. As well as a friend who has diabetes, and has a strict diet. Guess what? Last week the things she needed to eat weren't in the store because the shelves were EMPTY. Like come on people! 

It also doesn't help when ignorant people are making racist comments @ Asians, it makes me feel like garbage, especially since I'm Asian. Sometimes people tell me that "I don't look Asian", so I end up hearing it more because people don't think there's an Asian near them. Um hello, I'm right here. :/

Thank you so much for this thread, I needed it, I really did. Isolation doesn't bother me, but these people do.

I am so tired of Coronavirus and it’s not really doing anything to help my mental health :/ like as much as I love calling my friends I really do miss having like... Actual face to face contact with people instead of  calling. Idk? It just makes me feel super isolated and shit like that. Because of quarantine I literally feel so invested into the internet and video games that I really do miss speaking to people outside of my house. Quarantine was fun for like a week now I’m really tired of it.
No to mention, my mom isn’t the best person out there and after like, a week? I got sick and tired of being around her.
Also, I’m not even trying to be funny here but I’m actually worried about running out of supplies because of the panic buyers stocking up on everything? Like every time I drink water from a water bottle or use something we stock up on I’m like “Wtf do I do if we run out?”