From my comment on the SARS-CoV-2 thread in /r/collapse:

While these guys were neigh-oblivious before going on their wilderness trip where they jokingly wondered if everything would be different when they came back (everything really was totally changed), many of us were predicting potential disaster, and although we were a bit more on top of it than the general news, it looks like what has actually happened has been even worse than /r/collapse generally predicted! I cannot emphasize enough how unbelievably crazy it has gotten! The headlines feel like a disaster movie and are somehow even more dramatic than the bearish predictions on finds here! Like, from the daily update, we have headlines such as these in close proximity:

- California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Connecticut have all issued “stay at home orders”; they account for 1/3 of the US economy between them. About 5.4 million residents across the five states do not have health insurance, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. That is about 19% of the total US uninsured.

- A member of the US vice president’s staff tested positive. The employee, who was not identified, had not come into close contact with either the US president, Donald Trump, or his boss, Mike Pence, who is in charge of the US’s coronavirus response.

- A nationwide curfew has begun in Jordan, limiting the mobility of its 10 million citizens indefinitely.

- Colombia also announced that it will begin a country-wide quarantine from Tuesday night.

COVID-19 is everywhere else too, and has comprised literally all of my news push notifications for a while now, also being on platforms like YouTube and unrelated subs like /r/furry.

This is an article which is documentative instead of predictive: The Modern Supply Chain Is Snapping

This article is about a real thing happening now: Coronavirus credit crunch could make 2008 look like 'child's play'

I am using articles like this for an assignment for my high school economics class which now has to be held online due to COVID-19!!!

Real current events!

This is, like, bigger than 9/11!

If I had posted that all these quarentines would happen a month ago, I bet even this sub would think I was being a bit sensationalist! If I read it, I would probably think "Real life probably won't work like those disaster movies when everything happens within weeks. Maybe it will turn out like this, but it probably won't." But… it's real, or at least the crazy human-made response is, in addition to a considerable growing number of infections and deaths. I have pictures of my supermarket shelves being half-empty. I haven't been at this apartment long, as I moved here right before this thing went full-on pandemic, but traffic used to be more of a rush hour on the street in front of here and the cross street used to be fairly busy too, instead of me needing to wait for longer and longer to see a single car. My city, not some far-off one, has issued a stay at home order. It's surreal.

Absolutely surreal.

I'm actually enjoying this a lot more than may happen with other disasters, mostly because the power, water, and internet still work. Thank goodness for that. It's like a vacation from constantly being shuffled from place to place for me, since although I still have school, it's much less stressful to stay at home and do it online, as my school is niche enough that it's very far away with a pretty long taxing journey each day. I'm worried about economic security, actually getting the coronavirus, getting enough supplies (I was on top of the news to urge family to buy early, but I'm worried it might not be enough), and the news is so ridiculously intense that I'm actually putting it down quite often… but my actual life style changes have just been exactly what I've wanted anyway for a long time, both because I like being inside and because they cause less carbon emissions. I guess I'm lucky in that respect, unlike the people that easily get cabin fever, and also because the family I am living with is decently economically secure, and even if we weren't, our new landlord can waive rent payments due to the crisis if needed. I hope most people will be okey in that respect. I also lose a lot of the worry of needing to have pre-made food for school each day, since I can just make a new batch of food whenever. I've been feeling unprepared, but now that I think about it, this is probably one of the disasters I am most prepared for, since I have such good infrastructure to do everything at home. Too bad I never bought some half-decent masks, though. I wore some all the way back on January 27^th (I guess there really was worry of it spreading all those weeks ago?), but they were the non-N95 ones that hardly do anything.

Wait, January 27^th? Maybe we predicted it after all, for me to be able to worry about getting masks even then.

But I digress and tangent so much, despite writing this on mobile for some strange reason. In summary, this has been as bad, if not worse, than /r/collapse has predicted, and that is utterly mind-blowing to me.