Self quarantine day 12

Well today was another day of Skype collapsing. Our teacher didn't have good enough internet to show his screen this morning. We used almost 2 hours on trying to go through a PDF presentation about logo design.

Then we went into group work where my internet collapsed too. It was so weird because later when we talked to the whole class almost everyones internet had shut down at the same time. Apparently everyone in Demark is using the internet at the same time making it crash. Skype and Discords servers can't handle it either. IF we don't have the internet, what do we have then?

The group work is really weird and slow when you can't see what the other person in doing. We are working in our different adobe programs and then throw the different logos into a google docs document. It's a weird way to communicate.

After the 100% awkward group work i was totally spend for some reason. I actually fell asleep. I haven't done shit. Well my internet still sucked and i couldn't even go on YouTube on the tv for a while. Not until this evening. I'm glad i uploaded our video to YouTube yesterday and then made it premiere today.

Infected in Denmark: 1591

Self quarantine day 11

So today was the last day of programming. Today was mostly designing the website. We really had some problems with Skype because we couldn't show our screens for more than 10 secounds. So we had to upload our files and open each others projects while we talked. It was a mess.

One positive thing was that i got a huge package from an author i really loves. She send me the whole series of her zombie books for me to review, so that is awesome! I filmed an unboxing video i'm going to edit one of the next days. I just finished editing another video i will post tomorrow.

Corona Denmark news - they are expanding the quarantine until the 14th april. So two weeks more. Wuhuu... Luckly one of those weeks are easter vacation, so there will be no "home school" there. Thank god. Then we hope it will be over by then.... Hope.

It's my mothers birthday though. So Happy Birthday to her. We aren't going to have any party for her. It's sad because i actually wanted to cook for everyone and make the desserts and stuff. But we won't make my grandparents on both sides go out in these days. None of them is 100% with their health.

I ended up going to the grocery store with Ayla too actually. We both needed some food items and i got to buy something for a DIY project i've started on. Making a video about that too. The mall was so,empty tho.

Infected in Denmark: 1395

Self quarantine: day 10

Really lazy day today. It's sunday and i have a book to read and a video for youtube to edit. I'm not going anywhere and i bought food yesterday from the asian restaurant, so i don't really need to move my ass very far. I have hoped for better weather, now that i got some furtinture on my balcony.

People online talked about more restractions. That you wouldn't be able to take a walk or go out unless you had to buy groceries. But it didn't happen. They restricted the limits on gatherings to 10 people the other day and they put tape on the floors in the super markets to make sure that people in line doesn't come near each other.

Infected in denmark:1326

Self quarantine: day 9

So today my mom went and got bread for breakfast and we had a slow morning. I know that my parents has to go and wash the caravan, because the "season" for camping is soon starting.
i hurried home to my small flat because i have a writing date. My friend Camilla and i are participating in Camp NaNoWriMo in april and has to start up our writing projects. We did some speed writing and plotting.

I got some of my grandparents old garden furnitures with me home to my balcony! And my parents table... It looks really nice with the cushions I bought the other day.

The media tells us to buy a lot of take away from the restaurants we use to eat at, to make sure that they survive doing these times. So we called and actually ordered food for two days at our favorite asian restaurant in the city. Sushi and duck with rice. It was amazing!

I did get kicked out of the restaurant though. The owner didn't want two people to go in there together. "Only one from each family" he called out and since Camilla was the one paying for the both of us, i had to go out along with a few others. Outside it just said "Only 10 people at the time" but that doesn't include the extra apparently. I get it though, but i didn't think that it would be a problem.

Infected in Denmark:1255

Self quarantine: day 8

Like the rest of the days we had a webdesign assignment. It went really well! Our teacher actually called me and Ayla up to make sure that we were doing good, because we hadn't written him any questions doing the week.

So i went home to my parents for the day. I always go to their place to wash my clothing. lol.
It was weird to not hug my mom. My dad really didn't care which is kinda troublesome but at the same time i guess i liked anyway. Everything else was weird.

So the help my grandparents has doesn't come anymore apparently. My grandma can't stand up for long because of a totally fucked up back. She has some nerves stuck somewhere in the back so she just passes out from time to time, becuase they "cut off" the communitaion to the brain. So she's actually doing all the cleaning again which isn't very good. But at the same time there aren't anyone getting in their apartment that could bring in the virus. I guess that is for the best, even though it hurt to hear that my grandma is in pain.

At 5pm there was a press conference again with the police that told people to stay the fuck inside. The weather is finally really nice here in Denmark and apparently people are not listning. People from Copenhagen is apparently the worst to stay indoor.

Infected in Denmark:1132

Self quarantine: day 7

Today. Sucks.
We had another teacher today. One I usually like but at this point... Grrrh. It's like our other teacher knows that it is hella hard to have group work over Skype and make a presentation. This teacher just threw it in our face. Of course Ayla and I wasn't in the same group and we kept disturbing our groups by talking in the background, so Ayla ended up going into my room and sitting in my bed. Really uncomfortable, sorry. But I couldn't move now that I use external screens and keyboards and that. Im locked at my table. The presentation went horrible and only one could do the projects on their screen and the others were watching. It was really awkward in every way.

Another fucking horrible thing... Eurovision is cancelled. Yes I'm one of those. I freaking love the show. Not so much for the music, because most of that is horrible. But the competition and cheering on your own country or someone who's song you like. I already made plans! Gitte was going to come to my apartment and we were going to make the grossest cake ever. We say this Witcher bathtub cake made put of kitkats. It would have been amazing. We would use the whole day go build up and order sushi! But nope.. Not just postponed..
 Straight up cancelled...

I feel so down about all this crap. Too much is happening at once and it feels so weird. Mostly because I don't know anyone who is sick. It's just numbers they throw at me in the news. Where at the sick?? How does it look like when you are sick? I know nothing.

I have another appointment at my chiropractor tomorrow. Let's see if that is going to be cancelled too...

I got restless when Ayla went home. We ate our cake and watched The Try Guys baking without a recipe. Our cake was much better. Looks nasty but tastes amazing!

I found some workout Videos on YouTube by Blogilates and went through them. They closed all fitness centres last week so I can't go there and keep up something. I know if I don't work out every week I will need the chiropractor a lot more. My neck and back is already horrible because of my desk work so I have to keep up with that.

Self quarantine: day 6

So second day of home school and it is dragging us. The whole day was our teacher talking about all the questions we had to the assignment yesterday. I have to admit I zoned out so so so much. Ayla did too tho.

Our prime minister had another press conference and kept asking people to stay the fuck inside. I have to admit... I wasn't very good at that today.
I know it's a dumb excuse but I have an empty balcony and my parents have chairs and a table they'll give me to put our there so I needed cushions... I KNOW I'm stupid. But I needed a lot of other things... Like toilet paper now that the stores has restocked after people's panic buying. So why not get everything I needed at once? That will make our breaks from homework much nicer now that the weather is nice. Sitting out there enjoying the sun without really going outside lol. And Well... We decided that we want go bake banana cake tomorrow, just to be nice to ourselves. We needed butter too.

I've been talking with my mom about this thing. She's having some busy days at work these days. The whole hospital is "closing down". All the operations that aren't "necessary" is being postponed and curtain sections are begin closed down so the doctors and nurses and focus on the Corona patients. But even though the other sections are closing down, they still panic order a lot of sterile equipment???  No one knows why so my mom is very tired.

They also just announced that there can only be up to 10 people gathered now. So we went from 1000 to 100 to 10. Adter tonight they are going to close all shops that aren't grocery shops. So I'm glad I got my shopping in before everything shut down entirely. Im still not OK that I didn't get to Germany. But I guess it's for the best.

Infwctes in Denmark: 977

Self quarantine: day 5

So first day with "home schooling" as it is called. It was super weird. First of all we started the day out with muting all our microphones because Skype apparently start lagging when too many people speak at the same time. We are 15 and that is a few too many. We had a round if turning on our mics and introducing ourselves, our internship place and how good we kind thing we are programming on a scale from 1 to 10. That was super awkward.

We got a huge ass assignment to show kinda how far we are in programming. Make a website from a picture. We got the fonts and pictures to put in it. It had to be responsive to both computer and phone... We had one day...
Not That we had to finish, but get as far as possible. I didn't make it responsive though. I made it for a phone like my teacher told us to try first, as most people use the most these says.

I've had my friend Ayla over. She lives like 500m from me. We use one of my screens to Skype and then I have one screen for working and she has her laptop at my dining table. So it's not too bad and remote from the rest of the humanity... Yet.

I went to my chiropractor today. They weren't closed and I'm thankful for that. Only a few weeks ago my neck "froze" and I couldn't look up or to my left. It still painful but she gave me a massage and snap snap and I am living again. She asked how I was affected by it and told me that she went from working 5 days at week to 2 half days. But she gave me a follow up appointment for Thursday, so I guess they aren't closing anytime soon.

Infected in Denmark: 914

Self quarantine: day 3

So they closed the borders into Denmark now. Both to Sweden and Germany. You can only pass if you have a serious good reason, work being one of them. But everyone is getting checked!

The first two cases of serious bad Corona patients are at my mums hospital now. Came in last night, said one of her colleagues. At first they said that our local hospital wasn't one of those who should have Corona patients in respirator. But now there are already too many in other places, so they are moved here. So my mom might soon run around them too. I don't hope that I have to stay away from my parents house in the end. Or they have to be isolated. Because then I have to buy their food and drive all the way home go them and throw the shoppingbags outside the door and leave again. It takes me an hours to drive there and an hour home again.

I got an email from my school in the middle of the night. I'll have to install Skype business, as I predicted. I wrote my friend from class if she wanted to come join me in my apartment. We live 500m from each other or something. And I have snacks. Them we can use one of my screens for Skype and both have another screen for working.

I went shopping with my parents as well. They said they wanted to but me some food to take with me home. Now that I don't have to make a lunchbox for work I can actually make something that tastes good at home. But at the same time I'm a poor student, so they wanted to help out.

I did good today though. I sat down and made a budget for the rest of the year. I want to save up some money at some point so I could use my "new freedom" to do that. Im pressed by myself.

Infected in Denmark: 827

Self quarantine: day 2

So today wasn't really successful. My boss told me to not get up too early, because I didn't have much to do anyway. So I got up really late as told (lol) and started my computer and tried to log into that remote desktop shit. I did work. All my files were available, but ermh.... My All my adobe softwares wasn't avaliable... And an admin had to lock them up for me with a password that they didn't want to give me. So that was me working for 10 minutes and giving up. My boss told me to just leave it so I could get home to my parents for the weekend. We were going to Germany! Underlining the word "were"....

So OUR prime minister called the media to another press conference and said that Denmark is closing the borders from Saturday the 14th (tomorrow) at 12am. So that was that trip to Germany. Ro be fair you would be able to get to Germany before 12am, but we do live 5 hours from the border and we didn't know what the situation would be when we had to get home again before 12am.
(if you don't know, it's a thing to go to Germany and shop, when you are from Denmark. It is so much cheaper to go to Germany. There are a lot of border shops almost entirely made for Danes).

So yeah. Denmark is closing down for good. Let's not talking about last weekend when Melodi Grand Prix (national Eurovision ) was without audience. It was crazy awkward. I sure hope this is over before the Eurovision in may. I'm already booked by a good friend where we are going to bake a nasty cake, decorate my apartment with gay flags and scream along to the Danish song.

Im lucky i actually went to concert that weekend as well. When to see Sweet and Slade with my dad and uncle. Glam Rock from the 70s.
Im just so afraid that the concert I've been mostly looking forward to in June will be cancelled! I didn't get to see 5SOS last year and they are finally returning to Denmark. Fingers crossed?!
And Oh my... If Lars Lilholt is going go be cancelled as well?? I've been going to that event every year since I was 4y/o.

Infected in Denmark: 801

Self quarantine: day 1

So i got a mail from my boss last night i still had to go to work today. She usually get to work at 08.30 but she had to participate in a meeting 07.30 with other leaders at my workplace to figure out what to do. I am an intern in the public section, so we have to shut down and work from home if possible. I only have today and tomorrow before going "back to school" and i still don't know how that is going to work out.

So i went to work at usual and i got an e-mail from the bossest boss of the workplace (That is a title yes) who said that we had to prepare to close the whole place. I asked my boss what to do. "Work as normal." So i did. As best as i could while still following the news. I don't have to get in tomorrow but i have to see if i can log into the "remote desktop" and deal with one little assignment. Then i'm all done.

People are going crazy. Our Prime Minister said to not panic, but everyone is freaking out and panic buying everything at the super markets. Guess who regret their own lazy ass, that i didn't go grocery shopping yesterday on my way home from work? The super market was pretty empty in some sections. Apparently everyone panic buys toilet paper, bread, milk and veggies.
Lucy for me i'm allergic to milk and needed the soy milk. No one is touching that. And the sushi on sale? No one touched that. The mangos on sale? Nope not that either. So i'm all ok.

Infected in Denmark: 674

The news

So today I decided to start a blog.
Why you may ask? Because everything is going to shit apparently.
We have been talking about Corona virus for some time. Both at work, with my parents and with my friends.

A work everyone was like "pppfh, it's not gonna happen here in Denmark. It's in China. Stop looking at the counts of deaths and stuff!"

One of my friends Gitte has been keeping an eye on it for awhile since she had a trip to Japan and South Korea planned but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. It doesn't look as bad as in China, bit it is pretty bad. Especially on that cruise ship, Diamond Princess where I guess almost everyone is infected? That is Japan.

Well my mom as been worried for a while, since she works at the hospital in our home city. Not a nurse or anything, but she sterilise tools for operations and brings them to the different departments at the hospital. She's all over that building. The Danish government says that they will collect the infected in a few hospitals.

Right now it is mostly people that comes home from skiing in south Italy (extremely fucked at this moment) and Austria.
A few at my work was send home today because they had been near someone who might be infected.

But tonight we got this creepy message from put prime minister. Self quarantine for 14 days.

What does that mean for me? Well I am about to go back to school for 2 month. So I might get some homework and our teachers might speak to us over Skype or something. It's crazy.
All school are closing. All who is working for the public section has to work from home. So if I didn't have to" go back to school", I would still be stuck at home.

People working in the private section still has to go to work. Just keep their distance. No more than 100 people gathered.

It's weird times.

At least I got my books, reviews and videos I can make. Just did my school portfolio (graphic designer here) so I've been toning down in creative projects for a long time. But now that I finished that, and I'm apparently gonna have a lot of spare time alone now, om going to figure something out.
I have my trip to Germany on saturday though. If corona doesn't stop that too.

Introductrion

Well hello there.
My name is Helene.
Im 26, lives in Herning, Denmark and i'm a graphic design student.

The world sucks at the moment apparently. Shit's going down. This is me telling me how shits going down for me. Just to get it out there. This is a ego blog about the corona virus and how things go for me and well... the rest of Denmark? I guess must people are in a situation alike mine but here is my POV.

If you want to see shit going down live. Stats from around the world, i recommend this page HERE.