Mar 18th 2020, 10:32:36
Was already remote mostly, but no one works, so nothing gets stressed, and nothing breaks.
It's beautiful, everyone else I work with is from 3rd party, service, or provider companies, all their contracts are on hiatus. I am getting paid to watch a dead email for automated problem tickets, because there is no one in any office right now to generate them.
Not all that great though, family and I all probably got the wuhan. Who knows, you have to be cold on a slab before they will test you here, and there is no cure so it is what it is. Got passed around in my kids school. We knew we were screwed when her friend missed a week of school, then we hung out, heard the cough, her mom told us the symptoms, and then our states confirmed infections went from 0 to 20+ the next day. We isolated but had to keep sending to school and do some shopping. About 5 or 6 days later my kid got sent home from school with 103 fever, 2 days later they canceled school for a month. We all had symptoms within a few days. Kids both bounced back really fast but still have low fevers, cough, and headaches. Grumpy as hell too. Wife and I are not as easily but probably will fully recover.
Basically amounts to a really intense flu with cough and sometimes breathing problems. Wife and I both had 103.5ish fevers for about 24+. The spacing was weird. I was the last to finally be taken down a few days later than wife, who was a few days later than both kids who were basically the same time. Honestly, I make some joke of it a bit, but there was a solid 24 hours where I wasn't sure I would make it, and frankly that would have been just fine. It doesn't seem that bad because there isn't any digestive related issues, but besides that it is the sickest I have ever been.
Also a PSA against stockpiling. We went to Costco while we were isolating to buy fluffing toliet paper before the apocalypse people snatched it all, and likely spread this fluff to many others. Just another effect of stockpiling during a crisis. We could have made it 15 days with out but there was no telling what 15 days from then would be like. It took us 45 minutes to shop, and another 30 to check out...
Just buy a bidet toilet seat though, the only silver lining from all of this. Finally convinced my wife. Thanks Corona Virus!