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Unread 03-17-2020, 12:00 AM   #14
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I am not denying any of these serious risks to all of our health, but there are equally dramatic effects on the younger population that has nothing to do with purely getting sick. This isn't me seriously complaining that I cannot go to the gym, or that I cannot go to the movies, or other such trivial matters.

Rent is still due every month regardless, my landlord has not stated any relaxation on this. Given the huge amount of job layoffs and sudden lack of places hiring from these new restrictions, there are no jobs available to me to earn income after May 15 with my university stipends ending at that point. My fiancee is a nurse, but works in a drug detox clinic where she sees VERY high risk populations for the virus, she also has a weakened immune system and is therefore an "at risk" population herself. She only recently graduated and got this job and thus lacks full insurance benefits. We do not have the space in our apartment or the money reserves to have built up extensive food stores, and now there is hardly any food to even be found at the stores to replenish our relatively meager stocks. That, and they're hoarding the hygiene products that can best protect both myself and others from the virus should we happen to get it. So long as she can continue to work, we should be fine.

But after my income source dries up in 2 months, we will be living nearly paycheck to paycheck as only her income would have to account for all our bills including added student loan repayments. If she gets the virus, it will bankrupt our savings and emergency rent money for the treatment on top of severing our biggest and most stable, possibly our only, source of income. Lord forbid it get any worse than that given her immune system. My family is not inherently wealthy in their own right to be able to for certain wire me the money to not be homeless should we lose our income, especially as their work schedules are affected by this too. I am, quite possibly, staring starvation and homelessness in the face if she gets sick, and there is little that either her or I can do about it.
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