I remember I was at my uni library and I learned from a tweet of the health ministry that schools and unis are shutdown for the foreseeable future. I immediately went home early.
I remember telling my siblings “Meh this will probably last a week or so”. lol in hindsight.
apolgy for bad english
where were u wen COVID lockdown hit
i was at house eating dorito when phone ring
“Outside is kil”
“no”
In Accident and Emergency with chest pains because I’d caught Covid already.
Early February 2020. Someone in my main friend-group groupchat posted some news regarding Coronavirus. Me, happy citizen of UnderARockVille said “What the fuck is a Coronavirus?” and got gently made fun of.
A few weeks later aaaaand we were quarantining.
I had requested a week off of work because I was miserable and about to quit. Was watching the governor of my state speak on tv with my family, and knew what was going to happen based on what was happening everywhere else. Look, the pandemic was clearly awful and the consequences have screwed up the world even more than it was already screwed up… but in that moment learning that I’d never have to go back to that job and I was about to get $1000/week to sit home, spend time with family, cook, relax, play games and watch movies? Oh, it was the best times of my adult life. So this is how the rich get to live? Turns out I’m not depressed. I just hate being a slave.
I had already shifted to working from home, ordering groceries for pickup, avoiding crowds, etc. for several weeks before shutdown happened.
I too thought it would last maybe a month or two, so started a degree thinking I would have at least a semester knocked out during lockdown. Jk, I had the whole degree done before we returned to office.
I was in highschool at the time. I just got suspended like a week before school officially closed for covid. It was for a fight, and I was in self-defence, and the bully probably picked me to harass probably because I’m Chinese-American and probably blamed me for Covid. I got arrested, but charges were eventually dropped, after like 10 months and multiple virtual court hearings or some bullshit.
I was glad to suspended from school, I fucking hate it. I always wanted to just skip it and get a GED (its a test you take to get the equivalent of a High School Diploma). So yea, eventually, I just quit and took the GED, passed on first try, zero studying (I mean, cmon, that shits easy), the scores when converted to GPA are better than my actual GPA anyways 🤷♂️
At that time I researched a lot about immigration laws, and learned that the USCIS could see juvenile arrests and “convictions” (its technically called “adjundicated delinquent”) within the past 5 years, and also any adult arrests and convictions. Including overturned, sealed, or even pardoned ones. Laws are so bullshit, I’m glad my mother’s naturalization gave me citizenship, it’d be so bullshit to potentially get deported for a school fight.
I was always a loner, I just chilled and watched a lot of pirated Movies and TV Shows, I remember watching a lot of Youtube, particularly Jacksepticeye (very wholesome btw).
(Btw, why does this world suck so much? 😓)
Sorry to hear you went through all that bullshit
Wuhan, Hubei, China.
I was doing my internship at a small accountancy firm in Belgium. Happy I got to leave and be home.
God damn, COVID was a blissful and amazing period. Basically the last part of my life where I spent a lot of time on the computer.
After that I got married and basically am just working and spending time with my wife. Of course that’s fun. But I guess my “solo time” ended with COVID.
I was on one of the last few planes into Italy before they locked it down. I did not keep up with the status, so I arrived with tape on the floors everywhere, noone around, just confused on how to act now. Went home and started to keep track of the graphs and numbers of the spread.
It was evening in the UK when it was officially announced but we had been expecting it for a few weeks as the UK government at the time dragged its heels unsure of what to do, spoiler alert I did not even get a day off unless you count the weeks i had off because I kept catching covid, the first time completely knocked me off my feet for a week.
Kinda never, I never really experienced the lock down. I lived off grid and worked super rural at the time. I heard about everything shutting down all over the country but it never reached me. Still just went to work everyday. I also never got covid.
That’s amazing. You should write a book lol.
Probably at home? I worked from home running my own business so really didn’t notice any change to my circumstances.
My elderly neighbour on the other hand - he was on a very long cycling holiday in New Zealand. He was up in the mountains when it all went down. He came down the mountain and found the place like a ghost town and had no idea what was going on!
At work. Co-workers said probably two weeks. I said probably a year.
COVID started for me long before March 2020. Last family event pre-COVID was New Year’s Eve or Day (I can’t recall) at the very end of 2019 before 2020. So family events were over in January 2020 when it first broke the news, long before the lockdowns in March.
In person school was kinda screwed since late 2019, so the last actual day I had a chance to enjoy was the first week of June 2019. Pretty much the last time I spoke to anyone else in person aside from family.
I had already knew the rest of the academic year in early 2020 was a goner. By March 2021 I was desperate for schools to reopen without restrictions so I would get a chance to “catch up with peers” and I opted to select the in person choice just so it was an option if I wanted to use it. But at the end it never got a chance to happen. School ended for good long before the COVID restrictions ended in mid-2022.
It has already wrecked permanent damage and set me back about 5-15 years if I want to catch up, and now I desperately need to catch up and plan a departure from my country to flee elsewhere in due time before it goes to hell. I’m screwed.
No joke, at home convalescing from a long illness. I was already seldom going out for any reason other than family functions or to see friends at their houses for the most part. The whole quarantine, both official and unofficial were a breeze for me personally despite the difficulty that it brought others, having already adapted for my own personal health requirements.
Honestly, though, I don’t know how I would have pulled it off without the 'net. Apparently the character George Jetson would have been born during the pandemic, which is lowkey kind of funny IMO, seeing as so many people adapted to talking with their bosses via tele-screen; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jetson
