Five years ago today - the shut down started

[gomper]

I went to the Sabres game on the 9th. Dinner at the Town before.  No idea of what would come. On the 11th I had to be in the north towns unit 8. I live in Colden.  It was absolutely surreal listening to WFAN on the ride home. Updates came fast. First the NBA canceling the rest of the season.  3 minutes later it was the NCAA tournament.  Even the host couldn't believe it. I'll never forget that the only people on the road were Fed x and Amazon

 

It was really creepy 

 

 

 

[Just Jack]

30 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

I worked FT in the office for that whole experience as I was deemed essential (only time in my life lol).  So I had the letter in the car to give to the cops but never was stopped.  We had tickets for the end of the month Niagara Falls Ontario to see Kathleen Madigan  at the casino by the Hilton. Ticket master gave me a full refund no questions asked but the Hilton was kinda  jerks and i was like  i can't go be there if I wanted to the ***** border is closed.  smh

 

I had a bunch of concert tickets, back when you could still get paper tickets, that had been cancelled.  A few weeks into it, I posted a picture on FB of the ones that had been cancelled and asked if anyone wanted to buy them.  One of my FB friends thought I was serious and asked how much I was asking for them.  

[ExiledInIllinois]

I got da Covids two years later & I think I still gots it.  /smdh

[Augie]

32 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

I got da Covids two years later & I think I still gots it.  /smdh

 

I got Covid before it was even officially here. On 12/19/19 we drove for 8 hours down to Florida with a young lady who coughed the whole time. She had just returned from NYC. By Christmas Day I was so sick the wife put me in the back seat and drove 8 hours back to Atlanta. I coughed into February. 

[Just Jack]

The news from that night

 

 

[Bad Things]

I actually look back at the Covid years fondly.  It was a really pleasant experience to have New Zealand (and the Cook Islands) all to ourselves without any of the international tourists here.

 

Tourism was beginning to get a little out of hand with the number of people coming here to visit.  Covid squashed that, but the numbers are already beginning to rise again.

 

Being home with my teenage kids was really good too.  (Mrs Things was an essential worker so had to go in each day.)

[Just Jack]

2 hours ago, Augie said:

I got Covid before it was even officially here. On 12/19/19 we drove for 8 hours down to Florida with a young lady who coughed the whole time. She had just returned from NYC. By Christmas Day I was so sick the wife put me in the back seat and drove 8 hours back to Atlanta. I coughed into February. 

 

I also believe I had it early.  Some point between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2019, I had what I can only describe as a very bad cold or flu.  Went to the doctor and they ran some tests, but all they could tell me that it was something viral and to just let it run its course.  Took about 2-3 weeks to get over it. 

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

I’ll always remember the evening before.  Out a a local watering hole celebrating a friend’s birthday. Place was packed, but there was a sense that this activity would be coming to an end … sad times 

[BuffaloBill]

I remember early days thinking that if you caught COVID it was a death sentence.  I worked at the time in an “essential” business so I pretty much was out among people every day.  Crazy times and also sad because of lives lost and long term damaging health conditions for some.

[Draconator]

I was working at Yahoo at the time. We worked off of company supplied Mac Books. When the lockdowns hit, we were told it would only be a couple of weeks that we would be working from home. 5 years later and the entire Incident Management team was laid off in favor of AI, and Yahoo sold their data centers and is storing all your credit cards and personal information on Google and AWS cloud servers.