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This coronavirus has been in Asia for 2 months. Over here, many retail shops are just empty and some were shut down; FnB businesses are struggling, tourism is almost non-existent, and news of retrenchment was headlined almost every few days.
These are on top of the daily news on number of new cases, new clusters and updated death toll in other countries. People here are also making big adjustments in their daily lives, such as sacrificing social activities (2 months now), not travelling around, less eating out, no more drinks at the pub etc. It is not great living this way but there is also respect for this coronavirus.
Very certain this is having an impact on the mental health as well. Hope this dark cloud passes, though it will be another 6 months or 1 year by my reckoning. I hope I'm wrong.
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