Pretty similar for me. As I am a programmer, I can without problem work at home. But my employer was before not fond of this idea. Now I have no problem doing that. And as I am introverted as well, many of my social contacts are internet anyways. So yeah, I feel not too much constricted.

A pity about that Japan trip though. Maybe until October it is all over, we will see.

As a Xbox gamer I’m pretty content. Wife home because of the pandemic, more Xbox time, Xbox news is plenty and positive.

Yeah, I certainly have different expectations for this year. I'm probably going to focus on retro gaming and collecting this year... which is something I started doing a while back (so sort of a natural progression for me).

Do you mean Baba Vanga?

Some of these things these so called prophets say man.... I know if you spout enough bullcrap, eventually some of it turns out true.


"Horror, horror! The American brothers will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing." - Baba Vanga.  (if curiosmos.com is to be believed)

Supposedly thats her prediction of the 9/11 attack.

"As Vanga predicts, by 2023, humanity will experience drastic changes on the planet because Earth’s orbit will change drastically.

This unexpected cosmic change will affect the climate, oceans and much of nature. Vanga warns that humans will have a very difficult time coping with the changes."

^ from Curiosmos.


Meh. These people claiming to see the future.... I dont buy it.

*IF* in 3 years, something drastic happends to the earths orbit...... I might change my mind though.

You got 1 country to be thankful

Isle of Man.

We had one 1 case 14 days ago, which went to 5 cases 8 days ago, which is now at 7, with one in critical. Our island's Gov is operated by an MHK system (Member of the house of Keys, up to 24 total members to decide on laws), and they decided 6 days ago to enforce a state of emergency and a lockdown of all public and private services, until further notice.

I literally just got back from the local garage (petrol station), and there was a giant sign inside the store, with a bright light, that flashes when you're allowed inside. The two clearks were bothw earing masks/gloves, and even had glass screens in front of them, with a small slit underneath to accept cash, but even then they really try to get us to pay by card. Anyone who enters any store has to stay as far away from one another as possible.

We are no longer importing general goods from the UK (for the time being), such as eggs (for some fucked reason, so now we're stuck with Manx eggs, and it's £5 for a massive tray of them).

everywhere is practically quiet, save for some cars passing through, and ofc, the petrol station. We're a population of 80k+, but even I find this level of enforcement and safety measurements to being insane. 

We can provide for ourselves with general things like Bread, milk, eggs, pork, lamb, veg etc, but we heavily rely on UK/US import for everything else.

I wish. I just want this insanity to end. At first I was like "it's just one case over here, everything's gonna be honky doory. Then we're at 7 cases, with one fatal, and the whole gov just shits a brick.

I also need to find a new job, but yeah, all I'm gonna do is stay at home at this point. Thank god Resi 3 releases next Fri, and I'll hopefully be able to grab it digitally and just play that till this all blows over. 

It's a bit funny when I think about it. Ever since this virus became big, I've started getting back into the Resi series, watching the movies, reading the lore, replaying REmake 2 etc. 

Our gov is run by multiple bodies, which means there was likely some skittish decisions made, once the case went from 1 to 5 in a matter of days. We only have one hospital, one airport and 1 main port (2 others for fishers), so our gov probably thought they had contamination containment sorted, but apparently not. Old folk here get easily fearful of even a boat delay (for imported foods), so I imagine they wigged out hard when they heard about those 5 cases, and probably pleaded to the gov via Facebook to do something (one of our MHK's is actually talking to us on FB, getting us all to participate in some online friendly quiz, which sounds daft, but it'll keep the old ones busy indoors). 

I'm just ticked because I recently lost my job, then this lockdown happens, making it increasingly hard to find new work, when no one wants to accept at this point in time, as well as my bank flat out closing because of the virus, and no one wants to accept cash in hand for anything (save for the petrol station). combine all that and the stupid 6ft apart law (you can actually be arrested on sight for breaking it), and it becomes something irksome. I'm just used to popping up to the store to grab some cider and the like, but that's changed for now.

I expected things to go smoothly, when we had just one confirmed case, nearly 2 weeks ago, but now, eh, I'm not so sure, but I'm gonna have to stay indoors and just avoid that hysteria. 

Also yeah, our island is composed of a lot of old people. Out of the 7 cases, one is fatal, and it's an elderly person.

You know what really sucks about this though?. I've got asthma, and I've not had to use an inhaler for years, but I know damn well that virus will definitely take harder toll on me, than most young folk out there. 

Okay your frustration sounds alot more warrented now, to me.

Just got word from my gal:

27 cases now, and I wasn't keeping up to date with the tally.

I just, don't wanna go outside at all now.