The coronavirus pandemic has been changing the global economy, our lifestyle, our ways of interacting with each other and our vision of the time to come. The Cointelegraph team keeps working from dwelling house offices, and all the events we planned to participate in have been canceled. Merely in that location is withal a lot that is happening in the crypto and blockchain field that needs to be covered, and so the work keeps usa occupied, and that helps usa keep our spirits upward. The impact of the quarantines and economic restrictions is felt throughout all of the places where we are based, waking up fears and offering new hopes. We establish out that talking well-nigh the state of affairs helps us to cope with it, and we decided to share with our readers how the current circumstances are influencing our professional and individual lives.

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Jay Cassano, Editor-in-Chief

New York Metropolis, USA

We closed down the Cointelegraph office in New York early on — in the offset of March — every bit a precautionary measure. New York was slow to react to the pandemic, and at present nosotros're paying the toll in the toll it'southward taking here. News this week about the possibility of temporary mass burial sites is heartbreaking. The emptiness of the streets is eerie, even in Brooklyn. A month ago, a friend driving into town had to circle my neighborhood to find parking. Today, there's not a unmarried car parked on my block.

For the past three weeks now, I've been staying indoors as much as possible. It's a beautiful day out today, the kind where I'd encourage people to become work on the roof of our midtown Manhattan building or have a long tiffin and stroll to Bryant Park. Or hell, imitation existence sick to take the twenty-four hours to just prevarication out in the grass in Prospect Park or go play skee ball on Coney Island. Beingness cooped up on a 24-hour interval like today merely feels wrong, and nonetheless I know it's the only thing we can practice to help flatten the curve and stalk the tide of illness overwhelming hospitals in the city.

The squad at Cointelegraph has been incredible working through this fourth dimension, in office because nosotros're already used to working beyond locations and fourth dimension zones. I also think that — fifty-fifty if we're not providing vital, frontline news like some journalists are right at present — everyone here takes a lot of pride in their piece of work and hopes that it tin be useful, informative, entertaining or, at minimum, distracting correct now.

Jon Rice, Managing Editor of Cointelegraph Magazine

Midwest, USA

I live on a farm in the Midwest, and our family self-isolated a month ago. We're in a office of the state that has most completely ignored the pandemic — the schools didn't even shut until information technology was already Spring Interruption concluding calendar week. Every telly in every md'southward office and diner here displays Fox News all mean solar day, and the never-catastrophe bound of denial infects people. And so, they practice nothing.

My daughter's friends are still hanging out, going to events… but she has demonstrated remarkable maturity in request questions, reading news sources that bear science-based information, and agreement that the safest and most sensible thing to do correct now is stay away from people who won't accept any action to prevent the spread of COVID-nineteen. And since she loves to bake, I'yard getting a lot more scones for breakfast than I used to. Bonus!

For me, the major alter has been in the tone of the conversations I have with people all over the globe. People are scared, angry at the deliberate misinformation. Near of them aren't concerned for themselves, but for their parents or grandparents. This industry is filled with people who have taken the time to educate themselves on an emerging applied science, and they take the time to investigate the science behind the scare. They know there is a very real threat.

I work remotely, and have washed for over a decade. So, I'm accustomed to this way of life. We have the tools to piece of work as a decentralized organization, and we use them. I will miss going to Consensus and seeing friends and colleagues in New York, but there will be other times.

The truly scary thing, apart from the lives that volition exist lost, is that in that location may well be an acceleration toward nationalist centralization around the earth. More surveillance. More fear. Authoritarians using this to their advantage. The best source of early on information on the coronavirus was the crowd — real people in hotspots, telling the truth earlier governments were willing to share information technology. If annihilation has proved the case that centralized authorities aren't living upwards to their duties, surely this is it. The case for some degree of decentralization has never been stronger.

I am very lucky... we can't see a neighbour from our home, and then we can walk around outside, hang out with Moose, Waffles and Shawn (our trio of miniature cows) or walk the dogs without ever seeing another human being.

Nosotros're comfortable and safe, and I wish good wellness to everyone reading this.

Steve D'Agostino, Caput of Social Media

San Francisco, USA

I am based in San Francisco but alive a bicoastal lifestyle, as my family is all in New York City, as is the Cointelegraph domicile base. Sad to say my family unit is having a hard fourth dimension coping with this effect, and it has been very challenging to stay calm while so far away from them. I am currently in Joshua Tree, working difficult everyday and trying to put skillful free energy into a difficult situation.

I am beyond grateful for my Cointelegraph family and everyone hither who works so hard to provide current, comprehensive and breaking news to the crypto world. I promise to help create a positive customs through our social media that is a warm respite from the often horrific news cycle. We will go far through this, and the world will keep turning. I have faith and hope.

Michael Kapilkov, Reporter

New York Metropolis, United states

I am stuck in my regular location: NYC. Doing fine. Though, I do have a friend in northern Italian republic. I attended his wedding ceremony terminal june, and they are expecting a babe soon. Decameron.

Rachel Wolfson, Reporter

Dallas, Texas, USA

I am currently in Dallas, Texas at my parent's business firm. I decided to travel to Dallas afterward attending the Hyperledger Forum in Phoenix. I had intended to visit for a calendar week and so return to San Francisco. All the same, as the coronavirus news started becoming more frequent and frightening in u.s.a., I became hesitant to travel — not just for my personal health, only too for the rubber of others. San Francisco but announced today (March sixteen) that it is practicing "shelter in identify," meaning everyone must stay within their homes unless they demand to buy groceries or walk their animals. I am non sure when I will render to San Francisco, just it seems like information technology will happen sometime in Apr when the shelter-in-identify policy ends. The hardest role is being seperated from my boyfriend, who is currently in San Francisco. Otherwise, things in Dallas are fine. The gyms and many other public places have all closed today. I am staying sane by running outside and distracting myself with writing.

Kollen Mail, Policy Editor

Washington, D.C., USA

Washington actually didn't close down until March 15, and the region merely crossed 1,000 COVID-xix cases. Definitely not every bit bad a situation as New York, which is probably considering the metropolis itself is not as densely populated and people don't spend as much time in shared public spaces, on average.

That being said, while people are nonetheless milling near on the streets, the place has gotten eerie. Weirdly specific to D.C. is that the whole machinery of events has footing to a halt. From panels at recall tanks to the cherry flower festival. Congress has canceled or postponed hearings. Concert venues have shut downward.

Given that D.C. culture is heavy on a specific sort of type-A extroversion, information technology's a pretty stark change.

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Gabriel Rubinsteinn, Cointelegraph Brasil Managing Editor

São Paulo, Brazil

Personally, I am trying to avoid panic. I won't stock tons of nutrient and toilet paper, only I am taking basic measures to avoid problems. As I was already working from my home-role, my routine won't change that much, but I won't be visiting my parents nor any other older people for a while. I am not going to the gym nor any other crowded identify until confirmed cases end growing.

With around 230 confirmed cases (every bit or March 17) in a huge territory and with a population of 220 million people, Brazil isn't the near dangerous place right now. On the other paw, the Chinese and European situations bear witness united states the virus can spread really fast.

Brazil's president, Bolsonaro, doesn't agree. While nigh countries are trying to avoid the pandemic, he says that there's likewise much hysteria almost this subject and that the coronavirus is not as dangerous as the media says.

At the aforementioned time, well-nigh state governors are going in a different manner. In the state of São Paulo (the ane with more than people and more coin), the governor canceled all public events (museums, concerts, cultural events, schools, universities, etc.) and said all public employees 60+ years old or those with health issues can piece of work from their homes.

Most private companies in São Paulo are likewise sending their employees to abode offices — Facebook, Netflix, the World Depository financial institution and some other big firms take already done so. Traffic jams dropped drastically as people are avoiding leaving their houses.

Felipe Erazo, Reporter

Cali, Colombia

The situation has go somewhat tense here in Cali, Colombia, with many people crowded into supermarkets to face a possible quarantine. Fortunately, I bought enough food to face the situation. In the country, cases have been detected in several capital letter cities, which makes the situation fifty-fifty more circuitous. I had prepared a vacation to the United States to attend a wrestling consequence that unremarkably has an attendance of 80,000 people, but all this forced me to cancel. Recently, I was traveling inside Colombia by plane, always passing through airports with international connections, so I am now in a "voluntary quarantine." I could say that the only positive thing nigh this is that I can spend more time with my family, and this has allowed me to finish reading some books that I had awaiting. My thoughts are with Italian republic, especially with the northern role, as I've visited there iii years agone and I fell in love with the people and the region.

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Amey Wang, Cointelegraph China Managing Editor

Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, Prc

Before Chinese New Twelvemonth's Eve, which was Jan. 24, hundreds of people tested positive for the coronavirus every 24-hour interval. On Jan. 23, I went home to northern China from Shanghai for the Leap Festival. After a week's holiday, COVID-19 hadn't been controlled completely. So, we try not to go out and we must article of clothing masks if we have to go.

While near of the cities in China keep the number of new infections at nada now, we are still working online from dwelling. And we adapted to information technology after a whole month. Teleworking is new for about Chinese people because we adopt confront-to-face up communication in the function.

But in fact, this time-saving fashion makes our work more than efficient. And cheers to information technology, nosotros take more fourth dimension to spend with our families outside of work. It is luxurious. For me, it's the first time that I take been with my parents for such a long time since I started my career 10 years agone. I bask the warmth of my family and the happiness to swallow, walk and chat together. This special catamenia has awoken me to cherish my health and family unit.

Erhan Kahraman, Cointelegraph Turkey Managing Editor

Istanbul, Turkey

Turkey was one of the final countries in the region to denote the official numbers. Every bit with many other countries, Turkey too saw a rapid increase in cases since the first confirmed example on March 11.

Since the Cointelegraph Turkey team works remotely, mostly from domicile, there was no dramatic alter in our daily lives. We were homebodies way before this pandemic. Then, we attempt to keep our morale high, joking nearly how our daily lives are nowadays called "quarantine," and try to focus on work instead of social media to avert depressing stories.

An credible change in my personal life: Schools and preschools are closed for two weeks (for now), and so my four-yr-erstwhile girl is at home during my piece of work hours. I try to strike a remainder betwixt covering good stories for our readers and telling good stories to my daughter to avoid boredom for both parties.

Turner Wright, Reporter

Sano, Tochigi, Japan

I accept been in Nippon since the offset of the outbreak. Though finding a mask or wet wipes is still next to impossible, toilet paper and newspaper towels are slowly becoming more available in all stores. Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of hoarding annihilation. My residency is catastrophe and I had been planning to relocate to Vietnam to work remotely, only I'll have to have that a pace at a time, checking updates on mandatory quarantines and travel restrictions every morning time. Major events like the ruddy blossom gatherings accept been canceled, and the load on public transportation has been reduced with more than people staying home.

Joseph Young, Reporter

Seoul, South Korea

Republic of korea has taken the approach of rigorous testing but leaving the country open up. Anyone can become out to become food, coffee and necessities at any time, and most cafes and restaurants are open, operating equally usual.

Information technology's really non all that bad, given that the nature of my work is generally digital. I never left my home office all that much before anyhow, simply the fact that I cannot exit to cafes, restaurants and stores whenever I want is making it more difficult to cope with.

Working from domicile, I am trying as much every bit possible to exercise my part to slow the spread of the virus, non leaving the apartment complex as much as possible and always wearing a mask whenever I go outside.

I am definitely watching more Netflix than e'er before.

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Gareth Jenkinson, Reporter

Durban, South Africa

Life in South Africa has also been dramatically affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Following reports of the commencement example in the country at the offset of March, things have moved pretty quickly. What started off equally government guidelines for the public to practice social distancing quickly escalated to a nationwide, 21-mean solar day lockdown, which came into effect on March 27.

At that phase, South Africa had recorded only over one,000 cases of Covid-xix, and the authorities was desperately trying to "flatten the curve" in the country. Due south Africa's poorer populace struggles with high infection rates of HIV and tuberculosis — which makes our people especially vulnerable to aggressive diseases.

At this stage, I am still able to work, albeit from dwelling house in Durban. I am currently standing to do radio from the comfort of my living room. The rest of my fourth dimension is spent exercising, working on articles for Cointelegraph and spending time with my wife. Trips to shops for groceries and medicine is permitted, just any other movements in public have been restricted.

Things are serenity in Durban, and information technology is an eerie feeling. We hope we accept acted quickly enough here to avoid more serious situations like those nosotros've seen in Communist china, Italy and Spain.

Osato Avan-Nomayo, Reporter

Lagos, Nigeria

My city, Lagos, Nigeria, is on a two-calendar week lockdown every bit the government tries to irksome the spread of the virus. Every bit someone who has been working from home since 2022, the forced quarantine doesn't feel any different from my usual schedule. I am grateful for the efforts of our brave medical personnel putting their lives at risk, and I'm committed to doing my part by staying indoors and hoping for a swift end to the current pandemic.

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Andrew Fenton, News Editor

Melbourne, Australia

Every bit luck would have information technology, I came down with something that had all the symptoms of the virus almost eight days later on attending the Gold Plains music festival, where there was a confirmed case. My body's internal thermostat seemed to break: I started off with chills and was shivering no matter how many clothes I put on or how much I cranked the estrus. This flipped into being so hot and sweaty that I kept having to change my soaked T-shirt even when only lying in bed. I felt similar I'd been run over by a truck and had a abiding headache, which spiked in pain every fourth dimension I coughed. About four days in, my lungs became very painful, like they'd been slashed with a pocketknife, and I had a bit of a panic assail that things were starting to get serious.

The md wouldn't see me only prescribed antibiotics to baby-sit against a secondary infection over the phone and told me I should get tested for the virus — but when I looked up the criteria, y'all needed to either accept but returned from overseas or had direct contact with a confirmed case, so I decided I was besides sick to waste my time trying. So, I won't know if I've had coronavirus, or simply had some horrible flu, until antibiotic tests become available. The senior editors were very understanding and told me to take as much time off as I needed, but I decided to work almost days anyhow to just have my mind off things. It was really stressful watching the world fall apart while being horribly ill, potentially with something that was causing all the drama.

It took nigh ten days from the first fever to get over it, and I'm still tired. Despite a horrible couple of weeks, I consider myself very lucky — I alive nigh 200 meters from 3 very well-stocked supermarkets, I get on 60 minutes-long bike rides along a beautiful creek path every twenty-four hour period, and Australia is both isolated from the remainder of the world and has excellent medical intendance. I was already working from habitation, so there'southward no material change in my day-to-twenty-four hour period work life except I now have a colleague in the form of my girlfriend who's working remotely for the first time. I actually call back everyone in crypto and blockchain is pretty fortunate under the circumstances — it's a decentralized industry that's well-placed to survive and potentially thrive during the biggest global crisis in years.

Samuel Haig, Reporter

Hobart, Tasmania

It has been a shock to see my island state shut off from the residue of the country, and to watch the number of confirmed cases in the state double every iv to 5 days. For the first fourth dimension that I have experienced, constabulary and military personnel are patrolling our beaches and threatening to arrest individuals who are caught out-and-about with no purpose. I am thankful that none of my family unit has been infected yet. I experience for everyone out there who has been impacted by the virus.

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Sergei Medvedev, Chief Business Evolution Officer

Saint Petersburg, Russia

I live in Leningrad, Russia, and since March 31, nosotros are in lockdown, just people aren't panicking — for Russians, crunch and stagnation are pretty familiar things over the past 30 years.

Public transport is nonetheless working, shops are well-supplied, only people are besides self-assured. Many of them don't even pay attending to bones antiviral protection.

For me, working from home is a common thing. I used to work like this for years, and the Cointelegraph team is truly decentralized.

The funny affair is that this week is officially paid vacation for all employees in Russia. The president generously made this souvenir to the nation, but businesses should pay for it by themselves...

The aftereffect for Russia, I remember, will be more than a disaster, and a lot of small businesses will be closed. But at the same time, it is such a corking opportunity for e-commerce. Even my elder relatives take started using delivery apps and other online services.

Nosotros are still waiting for the infection's tiptop. Permit's see what volition be, only I prefer to think positive.

Veronika Rinecker, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch Managing Editor

Dortmund, Germany

I'g working from dwelling right at present, and that's certainly not a problem. I've been working out of the office for a long time, and I've learned to organize my twenty-four hour period in a way that separates work from home and family.

Simply information technology'southward hard non to get out at all because I'm used to having an active social life and to moving and traveling a lot. I live in Dortmund in N Rhine-Westphalia, in the region with the most confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Germany. All cafes and cultural institutions are closed, which is morally pressuring (and I have my wedding ceremony in early on May and need to postpone it). And since yesterday (March 22), we can only go out in groups of ii (to the chemist's shop, to the doctor, for walks/sports in the open air, to the grocery store).

And it is not the quarantine itself that is hard, only the fact that you do not know how long it will final. It's difficult that people dice, and I feel so sorry for those who have lost their loved ones or are fighting for their lives now. I'g even thinking virtually volunteering: helping out in clinics on weekends or buying groceries for the elderly. But I'm likewise afraid of getting infected because the long-term consequences of the coronavirus are yet unknown. Recent research has shown that even people with balmy symptoms may have respiratory problems in the time to come.

But I'm in a positive mood. I'm reconsidering my attitude toward life and the surroundings.

Less buying, less spending on unnecessary things, more cocky-development and thinking about others.

It's fourth dimension to stop a lilliputian and think almost something more.

Time to get involved in the correct way of life and put good habits into your routine and requite up bad things.

People'southward forcefulness is in adapting to their circumstances. And I wish anybody not to despair and take the best of the situation. And, of course, proficient health to you and your loved ones!

People here in Deutschland are beautiful and responsible, are willing to cede their freedom and personal preferences for the benefit of society as a whole. And you cannot stand aside when everybody is and so united, tries to follow all the rules, and keeps their distance with people during quarantine.

As for our small German squad, we attempt to ask each other every day how we are doing. Only we've washed it earlier, as nosotros've been working from a distance for over two years and we live in dissimilar cities. I wouldn't say that today's coronavirus state of affairs has had a big impact on our work.

Mike Vishnevsky, Head of Video

Tel Aviv, Israel

The situation in Israel is adequately skilful. We took measures early on on and have been quarantining for about three weeks already — right subsequently Purim. Currently, there are effectually 8,000 people infected, and forty have died. The biggest hotbeds of COVID-19 are the overcrowded religious districts of Bnei Brak and Jerusalem's Mea Shearim. The minister of health has recently tested positive, and at present he along with Prime number Minister Netanyahu and the head of Mossad are as well on quarantine.

As for myself, my life hasn't changed much. I've been working from dwelling even before the COVID-nineteen outbreak. My ulpan, a Hebrew school for the new immigrants, was canceled only a calendar week before the final exam, but at present information technology has launched online courses and nosotros are studying even though we were supposed to accept a one.five-calendar month interruption. Life goes on.

Workwise things did not change significantly. Everyone from my team but took the computers and cameras home. Slack, Zoom and Frame let Cointelegraph'south video department to work fully remotely. The team misses office snacks but proves it still can survive without them.

I live in the biggest city in Israel, Tel Aviv. I have roommates, then I don't feel lonely: We go shopping together, party, watch movies and withal don't hate each other. Everyone is doing their own stuff and I am happy I don't live alone.

At the moment, nosotros are restricted from walking further than 100 meters from domicile — Otherwise, there is the chance of getting a pretty big fine (5,000 shekels, or well-nigh $1,400). Recently, this led to clashes between some of the population in Jaffa with police force. Every bit summer is budgeted, I feel it will be a chip more difficult to stay home, given I live very shut to the beach.

I feel safe here, and I think Israel is very well prepared for such extreme events. First, Israel went through then many wars that it is always fix and has all the infrastructure in place. 2nd, Israeli medicine is i of the best in the world. My blood brother and his married woman are doctors here, both their hospitals are being redone to only accept patients with the coronavirus, and I know that the procedure of treating COVID-19 patients has been thought through. Israel is already preparing a strategy to cease the lockdown, with the showtime steps to accept place on April 19.

My advice to those who are bored and are solitary: Check out the StayTheFuckHomeBar. It is a virtual online bar where you tin beverage with random people and have fun.

Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, Managing Editor

Padova, Italian republic

I am based in Padova, in northern Italy, just 10km from the place where the first cases of COVID-19 in Italy took place. We've been living in isolation for almost four weeks, not immune to go farther than 200m from home. To go any extended distance, one has to take a special certificate. Shops and pharmacies are open — but simply on weekdays, and you are only allowed to become to the closest one to your house. This situation will last at to the lowest degree until April 18. But, of course, everyone is preparing that it may exist longer. Everyone is preparing for large financial losses. We are waiting for what volition happen next.

For me personally, nothing changed from the professional point of view: I am working from domicile, just digitalizing my life even more earlier. Suffering without my regular dance classes, I launched a platform for digital dancing for those who are stuck abode. I am connected now with the universities I attended as a student to join courses that went digital. I talk to friends on the other side of the world, with whom I could not find time to communicate for years. I go outside to brand a hundred steps effectually our house and feel how wonderful it is to take the prerogative of just walking under the sun.

We take definitely entered a menstruum of economic recession. Simply it also gives united states of america an opportunity to think of the future and what we want to encounter in it, which alternatives to global capitalism nosotros could find in order to avoid such a global crunch in the future. Information technology is quite clear that the world will never be the same, but it depends on us: whether we will utilise the lessons of 2022 to make it a amend identify to live or not to care.

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