How it's affecting me? Well, my husband is in the UK army, and has been in the Middle East since early December. I left to go back to Ohio to be with my family around the same time, as he wasn't in the UK anyways and I didn't want to be alone. He was supposed to come home for a 2 week leave in April, as was I. Since the virus hit, the army canceled his leave, and told him that he had to work straight through until June. With his change in plans and the virus situation, I decided to stay put in Ohio. I'm going back to the UK next month. He should be back around mid-June.
On top of my husband being deployed and the worry with that, my ILR is due at the end of July. Who knows what the backlog will be like, if they'll grant visa extensions, if the visa services will even be open at all, etc. I have a lot of concerns. It's literally the worst possible time for a visa to be due.
In one of my jobs (both are remote), I'm an independent contractor for a Chinese-American company. Business has slowed WAY down since the virus hit. It's the slowest it's been since I started there 2 years ago. Thank God business is good at my other job (where I'm an employee, not IC).
It's disheartening to see so many people angry with each other right now. Lockdown crew screaming at the open up crew, the open up crew badmouthing the lockdown crew. I've seen it in my own family. I have my own opinions on all this, and I'm def on the side of opening up- but cautiously!
