Oh those are closing just now??? Lol all of that has BEEN closed for days/a week. Restaurants have only takeout and 8:00 curfew. They're going a step further in New York now. All "non-essential" businesses are demanded to have people work from home starting Monday or shut down if working from home isn't possible. 8,300 cases in NY this morning, doubled since yesterday. Btw my friend who works in NYC told me he was in bad shape last night, like flu-like "can't breathe" type symptoms and when he went to his doctor they said he didn't have the flu so he should really go get checked for the coronavirus. They finally added corona testing drive thrus in NJ today so he's going there tomorrow (it already hit the max testing for today). Hopefully he doesn't have it

Ahhh damn @ your hostel closing... what are you gonna do when it closes?

Which drink do you crave when you get an urge? (but I won't mention any more, I'd assume it probably doesn't help thinking about alcohol). Why are so many people ACTUALLY done with Corona just cause of the name? ffff Corona better not really be done or else I'm DONE with beer!

Ahhh yeah I’ve heard about that here too. Not you being one of the early corona infected and started spreading it around

Lol you need a partner to get you through it But it’s partly due to not going out as much lately (or to clubs etc. at all). I’m not too bothered not drinking or smoking either, like it’s just sometimes/randomly I’ll get the urge but that’s more if I’m out with people, otherwise I’m good. And I haven’t even felt the urge lately at all, not even for a Corona despite all the corona talk. How are you doing with it at this point? Getting any urges?

you're right, that Kelsea album is quite lovely

Yeah maybe I’ll get used to it. Loool my family & one of my friends in particular were like paaanicking about it days ago but then they’ve all like simultaneously calmed about it now, at least somewhat. Tbf my grandma does have reason to worry, she’s in her 80’s

Damn I haven’t done ANY drinking or smoking in the past few weeks (smoked prob like 2 weeks ago tho but feels like longer since I was starting to like every week, sometimes more than once, just before that and that’s a lot for me ). Have you still been smoking weed at all while you stopped drinking?? Enjoy it!

And that’s like a section of the newspaper to report deaths basically. I’ve never actually SEEN it because I rarely ever look through the paper. Do they not have it in the Uk?

That's good everything's staying the same, at least it's not getting worse atm Hopefully things start returning back to normal too! I feel like the craze over corona is already slowly dying down even though the number of people getting it keeps increasing pretty significantly Just a matter of time

Just don't let it be alcohol you celebrate with, you're doing good with that

Sksk NOT work shoes I pretty much wore rags and instead of a desk & chair I was just on a couch with a random glass table we have in that room Yeah but for me I honestly prefer just going in to work after today's experience I don't mind my co-workers and it's less distracting / less of a headache than trying to work at home. I also prob worked more at home cause I was paranoid about when my boss/co-worker would walk by the computer without knowing where they are.

Setting up in my living room was NOT the best idea tho lol. The MAIN positive thing is I got to wake up a bit later and didn't have to bother traveling there & back Yeah same hours pretty much (8 hours, around 10-6 but a bit earlier today since I was awake and just had to get my laptop on & connected)

First few hours of at-home work: sooo sooo weird I'm like relaxed chilling on my couch while working but at the same time I get SO many distractions from family/TV/etc lol I also feel more paranoid about slacking off than I do when I'm actually at work because idk who's ever around my computer. Apparently one of my co-workers (and my boss) are still at the office now because he helped get me connected by turning on my work computer this morning.

On an at-home lunch break right now tho. Also strange

I know

Sksksk that's a bit how I feel although I just put mooost of my focus on the phone call so I was focused enough.

Over here it kinda feels more like people are just more on edge & scared to be around each other and separating. But yeah tbh I get what you mean @ people not being against each other at a time like this/not having hate for people etc, that's really nice Things like this do kinda unite people.

Also @ your message from before that I just read up on: "I'd have to try and work something out to stay here for a month or so, because with the situation when I DO go back home it really could be for a long time now."

Why is that? Will they not be letting people even travel around through the country or something? MESS if this keeps getting worse until mid-summer.. crazy