I was doing my internship at a small accountancy firm in Belgium. Happy I got to leave and be home.

God damn, COVID was a blissful and amazing period. Basically the last part of my life where I spent a lot of time on the computer.

After that I got married and basically am just working and spending time with my wife. Of course that’s fun. But I guess my “solo time” ended with COVID.

My best friend’s house. That’s also where I spent the lockdowns. It delayed what should’ve been a routine trip to see family by who knows how long. Though it should be noted different countries started the lockdown at different times, so the “2020” in the original question is not absolute in the answers.

I was at home. My boyfriend had gone to the store to buy toilet paper - I know, the irony - and he calls me and tells me everybody has gone insane and is buying a ton of toilet paper. He’s standing there with with his humble little pack of toilet rolls while people are tumbling pack after pack into their carts and acting frantic.

Took him half an hour to get through checkout. We spent the rest of our night watching the news.

I think there had been talks of lockdowns for a few days or so before that and we had all been kinda joking about it a little bit, but most of us didn’t really think it would happen until it did.

I still think it’s low key hilarious that my bf went to buy toilet paper and ended up in the toilet paper apocalypse for half an hour.

Kinda never, I never really experienced the lock down. I lived off grid and worked super rural at the time. I heard about everything shutting down all over the country but it never reached me. Still just went to work everyday. I also never got covid.

I don’t know where I was specifically, but I know what I was up to. Me and ex spouse were finishing packing for our move to Seattle. Lease signed, most our stuff sold to downsize, jobs quit. There was no undoing moving to the city in the middle of the plague for us and we weren’t even sure if we’d be allowed in

At the door to Burger King

I was at work. My kid was in high school, and I got the news that school wouldn’t reopen after March Break. I was in a role that was already remote-friendly/expected but had argued my way into keeping a desk (had done full remote before but was getting squirrely over it, and I had newbies in my old role with little on-site support that I used as an excuse). Thought to myself “K, I’ll work from home next week so kiddo has someone around if necessary/to poke him so he doesn’t just rot in bed all day”.

Took home all my work stuff, which was a good thing when the notice went out saying I was not allowed to go back to the building.

I knew I was an “essential” worker before the ink dried on the state order. I think I lost my special letter work gave me. I remember in the begginning few weeks police were actively pulling people over to question them. I remember there was a militia in oregon? doing a roadblock.

UK, so announced in the evening before it happened. My patio was in the process of being done and they struggled to get the slabs as all the builders merchants were closed, fortunately it did get finished - their last job for a while. Other than that I was working from home but I don’t remember if that came in slightly before lockdown was officially announced. Went from five days in the office to none.

Probably at home? I worked from home running my own business so really didn’t notice any change to my circumstances.

My elderly neighbour on the other hand - he was on a very long cycling holiday in New Zealand. He was up in the mountains when it all went down. He came down the mountain and found the place like a ghost town and had no idea what was going on!

Wuhan, Hubei, China.

At work. Co-workers said probably two weeks. I said probably a year.

I had already shifted to working from home, ordering groceries for pickup, avoiding crowds, etc. for several weeks before shutdown happened.

I too thought it would last maybe a month or two, so started a degree thinking I would have at least a semester knocked out during lockdown. Jk, I had the whole degree done before we returned to office.

I was in highschool at the time. I just got suspended like a week before school officially closed for covid. It was for a fight, and I was in self-defence, and the bully probably picked me to harass probably because I’m Chinese-American and probably blamed me for Covid. I got arrested, but charges were eventually dropped, after like 10 months and multiple virtual court hearings or some bullshit.

I was glad to suspended from school, I fucking hate it. I always wanted to just skip it and get a GED (its a test you take to get the equivalent of a High School Diploma). So yea, eventually, I just quit and took the GED, passed on first try, zero studying (I mean, cmon, that shits easy), the scores when converted to GPA are better than my actual GPA anyways 🤷‍♂️

At that time I researched a lot about immigration laws, and learned that the USCIS could see juvenile arrests and “convictions” (its technically called “adjundicated delinquent”) within the past 5 years, and also any adult arrests and convictions. Including overturned, sealed, or even pardoned ones. Laws are so bullshit, I’m glad my mother’s naturalization gave me citizenship, it’d be so bullshit to potentially get deported for a school fight.

I was always a loner, I just chilled and watched a lot of pirated Movies and TV Shows, I remember watching a lot of Youtube, particularly Jacksepticeye (very wholesome btw).

(Btw, why does this world suck so much? 😓)

It was evening in the UK when it was officially announced but we had been expecting it for a few weeks as the UK government at the time dragged its heels unsure of what to do, spoiler alert I did not even get a day off unless you count the weeks i had off because I kept catching covid, the first time completely knocked me off my feet for a week.