For me, as I work at a university, I'm having to completely change my daily routine. We are getting an extra week for spring break so that we can move our classes online, before completing the semester more likely online. Sports events have all been cancelled or rescheduled for way in the future. Concerts and such are cancelled. Public schools aren't closing yet but it looks like they will be soon. We of course are told to stay home and I'm excited to teach through a webcam in my pajamas cause I don't have to get up at 5:30 to get to campus by 7:30 to teach at 8:30. By cutting out my commute I'll have more time to work on my thesis and my own coursework, so maybe I'll be able to finish my degree work before April lol! The upside of the pandemic, yeah?

Not at all. Still normal for me.

I'm jealous

not really currently but there is a mass panic of all the toilet paper and hand sanitizer x.x

Spring break 2 weeks closure for University of Kentucky, but we have online stuff too. The professors don't know how they're gonna do it, yet. We have a lot of group work and patient cases during class. Those are kind of hard to prerecord since it's more interactive and they elaborate on answers we give. I guess we're just out of luck with lab, since none of us have compounding supplies just laying around the house. Not a big deal for my class since it's our last semester of classwork.

As far as community concerns, there's no face masks, toilet paper, or hand sanitizer at any store in Kentucky because people took voluntary "quarantines" to mean martial law will ensue. I guess people thought they wouldn't be able to leave their house for ANY reason... It's seems counter productive to buy all the face masks if you think you're not ever gonna be leaving your house... But who am I? Everyone is panicking, which is definitely not what they should do in this kind of situation. Except old people, they don't seem to care, yet are the most likely to die from the virus. Elderly and Millenials are like YOLO, let's travel, #bye.

Career-wise, community pharmacies are already fighting for their lives on capital hill, whilst losing their livelihood. I'm sure with all this going on, PBMs and chain pharmacy lobbyists will find another way to screw us out of all our money. For now, people are mostly calling to make sure us pharmacies are still going to be open so they can get their pain pills :( It's amazing how quickly the opioid epidemic took a back burner. People are also calling to ask if the flu vaccine protects against covid... thanks Trump, but NO, it does not. Our governor wants all healthcare workers to wear hazmat gear... but didn't offer to pay for any of it. So we all just gonna be chillin up in the pharmacy, sprayin the 2 cans of lysol we got in our faces BECAUSE THERE'S NO FREAKING MASKS. Ya, business as usual -_-

Theyve closed all ontario public schools - elementary and secondary - for 2 weeks post march break. so starting saturday my oldest is home for 3 weeks. 
im going grocery shopping tomorrow, so ill see how crazy that is.
but otherwise nothing happening here really.

now, all around toronto is going into panic mode and wiping out store shelves.. lol

binny did everyone take all the tp and and hand saintizer too? its been crazy like that here.. all the tp and stuff flies off as soon as it goes onto the shelves

Well, I'm a nurse so it's just another Thursday ;P

Seriously though, I'm interested to see how things impact my workplace as far as 1) schools closing and many of my coworkers having to call in just for that reason alone. 2) if some of my patients' procedures will start getting postponed to a later date [if they're not urgent] as I work in the endoscopy department and about half the time my patients simply have annual surveillance of colon polyps or whatnot. Mayo Clinic, where I work, has set up for patients who suspect they have symptoms of COVID to first call a number and verify their symptoms with a nurse over the phone. Then they are to drive to one of the clinic facilities where they have stations set up OUTSIDE where they get tested (a nose swab, I believe) and go back home to await results. At this point there's no medicinal cure (just like the flu) so basically the only reason to get tested is so you know then to call into work and hunker down at home in your fort built of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and bags of rice. ;)

At this point as well since I work in such a specialized area of the hospital, I am wondering if I will ever even come across a [known] case of COVID as they have strict airborne and droplet precautions if a patient is to become hospitalized...and their likelihood of needing an urgent EGD or colonoscopy is likely little to nothing. xD

Hur hur. I work in the hospital as a nurse as well, on the ICU with three blocked rooms specifically designated for the 'deadly' strain of the corona virus. So far we have only had one suspected case with full regalia  ... My situation is very unique. In that respect, it affects my life on a daily basis (Rather, work day basis)  I wish my work were closed for the hysteria, unfortunaly that is never going to happen. xD


As a whole, I am not adjusting my life too radically. ... Keep in mind there are at least 5 strains of the corona virus, and only one (s0 far) of them is really deadly. A lot of the positive 'corona virus' cases being reported by the media, are not the ones you should be worried about. It is something to keep in the back of you head. It is  more of a problem than say, the common flu (A/B) but in the long run, I believe it will be just another run of the mill media scare tactic sickness. The vast majority of people who have expired due to the disease had been elderly, or otherwise immunocompromised.

Not at all... at the moment. We have to wipe down our work stations every lunch time at work and our MD has made sure that everyone has a laptop to work remotely if necessary. -shrugs-

It's annoying that people are panic buying though! No pasta or TP or hand sanitiser, lol. It's crayyyyyyz.

I'm in the same province as Binny. Like she said, schools are now getting a 3-week March Break instead of 1, which starts tomorrow. I work in schools, and the announcement yesterday I think freaked the board officials out, and was news to them. Haven't heard for sure what's going to happen other than I guess I'll be home and getting paid for binge watching tv, reading books, doing puzzles and sleeping? :P 

My sister went for groceries last night (it was her grocery day and she had no food, not because of the pandemic panic!) and said she was in line for the cash for over an hour, and the lineup was around the perimeter of the inside of the store. 

Today's the last day of work. Our principal Wednesday at this school gave all staff each a container of Clorox Disinfecting Wipes (which smell AWFUL) to use in our rooms. So every time I come to work before I can touch anythig I disinfect the door in and out, my computer, etc. Kids are little germ factories and this school has all the kids who live in the shelter overflow at the hotel around the corner, with usually at least one parent/family member coming in and out of the country, so if anything is going to infect me, I feel like it's that.

I'm fairly germaphobe-y normally so this is amping up my self-diagnosed compulsiveness when it comes to warding off germs.

I'm glad I'm not the only nurse! And not alone in Ontario. :)

Luckily, I work at a children's hospice mainly as an RPN. We don't admit children with fevers due to the immunocompromised population. I'm a RN student though at a major hospital so I honestly don't have qualms avoiding the undiagnosed cough and SOB charts presented to me during hand off. I have 5 more weeks of the program. I refuse to get sick when there's a paid staff nurse who's supposed to be caring for them. Students are viewed as extras, so we help if needed, but shouldn't be getting formal assignments of COVID. Yet. We'll see how the next 5 weeks go! 

My brother is in his second year of college and his school just shut down for the semester so he and his girlfriend are moving in with my parents where I am also currently living. It's going to be a full house. The school is saying they'll continue classes online, but all of my brother's classes are lab based so how is that going to work? Who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Both my mom and dad work in public-facing jobs (Army dad, psychiatrist mom) and I've been making them homemade hand sanitizer since literally every bottle on earth seems to have been snatched up. Since I work from home I'm just kinda chillin' until everything calms down a bit and making sure the house is cleaned consistently. 

So grocery shopping was a busy. Minus fruit and non-perishables.  No vegetables (worth buying) even freezer section was bare. No meat. No toilet paper!!! And no water... 😒

Libraries and the play group I take my son to are all closed. The governor shut done every K-12 school in the state.

Panic here is annoying......and Facebook doesn't help to calm their fears either. 

Schools closing early for Spring Break. Toliet paper in public bathrooms have gone missing (thankfully not at our work, yet). People are hoarding toliet paper, milk, bread, certain foods and leaving others. I'm not doing anything but continue to wash my hands and take my vitamins. I'm really not worried about it. I haven't been on Facebook in forever and will not get on now to see the hype and panic roll around with rumors. The Governor of Natural has advised that we Naturalians not travel out of state. So maybe my sister's graduation meet-up in WA is off? I'm not sure. 

In South West Ontario. In my small town things are nuts. Seriously people are crazier than me this cant be good. Grocery store shelves are getting bare people buying 600 bucks  worth of groceries at a time, the toilet paper thing is real I am flabbergasted

For real though, we just ordered more toilet paper through Amazon becuase every store is out, but even then that's going to take a week to get here. It's so wild 

I take the train home tomorrow so I'll find out what the tp and hand sanitizer situation is looking like lol I won't have any food either and my critters need more supplies too. Should be fun!

Spring break is extended a week so us teachers can figure out how the hell we're gonna move classes online. Our department teaches foreign language in a communicative way, so we are trying to determine which video system we are gonna use. Right now we're between google hangouts and zoom. Will probably go with zoom since it has the capability to do break out sessions (so group work) and can have a large amount of people connect at once. We are also having to condense our content, since we aren't going to extend the semester. Still have no idea what we are going to do about testing...

For the teachers, look into Discord. Most kids are super familiar with it and already have it. This can create public chats for people to discuss school topics and right now you can livestream up to 50 people because they extended the limit to allow the platform to be used by teachers affected by the CORVID-19 situation. Students can use the chat while you stream your lectures to ask questions etc. Your students can also create their own individual group chats where they can have multiple users streaming their cameras if a more face to face approach is needed for your assignments. All you have to do is create a server, send your students the invite URL, and they'll be all set. Best part? It's free for everyone involved. I highly recommend looking into it. 

Last week, I would've answered this question by saying nothing has changed for me. Now that we have 13 confirmed cases in the past week, the panic has become a real issue. I went to the grocery store last night and it was ridiculous. There was no water to be found, paper products were really depleted, household cleaner aisles were empty, bread was hard to find, and chicken specifically was almost gone. It's so jarring how fast things can go from normal to chaotic. I'm hoping when I go out tomorrow to stores that I can find at least water somewhere or I'm going to have to figure out an alternate means of getting it like a water purifier for my fridge.

As of yesterday, I've begun working remotely as a result of the virus. This definitely is the highlight of the situation. LOL I hope I can remain at home after this calms down, but that's probably just hopeful thinking. D: