Circuit breaker period starting 7th April 2020 - 1st June 2020. Following drastic changes in lifestyle, economic and our society:
1) Petrol price is down worldwide except SG
2) Many offices will remain closed throughout the CB period and will continue to operate fully on a work-from-home basis.
3) All schools abruptly moved online. School holiday start on 5 May.
4) Self-distancing measures on the rise.
5) Tape on the floors at stores to help distance customers (1 metre) from each other.
6) Takeaway only for all F&B
7) Limited number of people inside stores. Non-essential stores and businesses mandated to be closed.
9) Entire sports seasons cancelled.
10) Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled
11) Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled
12) No masses. All places of worship are closed.
13) No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, 10, and now no gatherings at all. Not even for extended family living apart.
14) Children's outdoor play parks are closed.
15) Limited masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers all around the world.
16) Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill in other countries.
17) Panic buying sets in with shortage of disinfecting supplies, laundry soap, hand sanitiser. People also hoarding and buying toilet paper for whatever reason.
18) Shelves are bare.
19) Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
20) Government has safe distancing ambassadors checking and issuing fines.
21) Airline tickets are cheap but we can't travel.
22) Daily updates by MOH.
23) Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
24) Barely anyone on the roads.
25) People wearing masks and gloves outside.
26) Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
27) Our hardworking healthcare workers are afraid to go home to their families.
28) For the safely, island wide of MacDonald advised to closed for operations.
29) "Flatten the curve" is a daily saying, along with "We are in this together," and "We heal as one".
30) This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared on March 18, 2020.
Due to the above changes, my husband and I had to miss our birthdays, ROM anniversary, weekday dinner dates, Sunday family day events and couple time is reduced. Financially we are adapting to a lower income due to lack of work-assignments.
However, guess I wouldn't want have this all Circuit Breaker being in my previous marriage, with my ex-husband and his family. Can't imagine that lifestyle of constant worries, emotionally being wrecked by his lack of concern, being stuck in an unhappy marriage and having frequent abusive arguments over the the most trivia issues. Don't to forget have in-laws who can't control their son, allowing him to be an irresponsible husband, mostly always on his side as well as constantly gossiping on the phone about all my negative traits like their son is an angel.
I am predicting even if we had moved out of his parents' home and to our BTO flat, being stuck in the same household with his sucky attitude also wouldn't do me any good and this marriage that was already unstable from the start, would also end.
So I am indeed thankful I am in this Circuit Breaker with the right man as my husband, supportive in his own ways and we can work together as a team to compromise as well as lower our financial expectations, make adjustments and hopefully, tide over this period.
