How's COVID-19 treating you?

[Neo Hyper Yoshi]

At the time of writing, Ireland has had over 6000 confirmed cases and 230+ deaths. We've gone into lockdown with most places except for essential stores closed and people told to stay at home. We also have social distancing in affect and for the most part, people have observed them. Also, given we in the middle of 2 countries who have mismanaged / are mismanaging the crisis, our government is handling the crisis extremely well in comparison, with our Prime Minister ( referred to as Taoiseach but I don't think most of you can pronounce that! ) even reregistering as a doctor and doing some work once a week to help ( granted, probably nowhere near frontline but still, it's a good gesture. ) Even giving those who lost their jobs owing to the Crisis a weekly payment to tide them over.

As for myself, I'm one of the lucky people in the fact I'm still working, granted it's from home at the moment. I work in a call center for the main telecoms provider in Ireland and as such, we're regarded as essential. It's been crazy busy but it's been making the days fly by. I'm not going to lie I'm a small bit resentful of those who've lost their jobs and are getting the special Covid payment but those poor people are probably going mad with boredom with all the restrictions in place. I do miss some of the people in the office though so it was really nice to hear some voices when we did some brief meetings over google hangout today.

Outside of work, I've just been mindless browsing stuff on the computer, playing video games and watching streams so not much has changed in that regard. People like me who spend most of their time keeping to themselves and playing video games haven't been to adversely affected to be honest.