The COVID-19 coping thread

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The last day or so has been terrible for my mental state. Caring for the newborn means lack of sleep, and lack of certainty whether my gf and I will even have jobs when we're supposed to come back from parental leave. Our workplaces are generally pretty great but they realistically are too small and have too little cash flow to keep everyone on salary with their business essentially closed down for at least half a year, even with help from government bailouts. The thing that's keeping me going is the sense that this is just going to be a bad year, people have survived worse in our families and come through intact. But it's still incredibly stressful to think about what's waiting for us on the other side of all this upheaval.