I'm so sorry to hear this about your jobs, it's just awful.
My boss came in to our work place today and told us that many of the services we provide will be shutting down for the time being. I work with people with disabilities in a vocational setting. Some of our clients are in residential care and for now we're trying to limit bringing too many different people into their homes.
For myself nothing is changing short term, as myself and one other carer work mainly with just one client everyday. As they live in their own family home, we're still able to provide care without too much risk of bringing in too many different people/and potential germs.
The people we care for most often have complicated health issues putting them at a higher risk. Several vocational hubs within our services are being shut-down as of 4:00 pm tomorrow and will not re-open until things settle down. So far everybody will be still be paid and some people will be redistributed throughout the services, but they will not be able to work with several different clients in differing homes.
We've been told that if we need to quarantine, we'll still be paid without needing to use up our sick pay.
Our government has put billions into supporting businesses to try and retain staff, bolster the health sector and basically put cash into the hands of those needing it. Banks have offered 'bank holidays' on paying mortgages... and tonight we've apparently completely shut our borders to all non-citizens.
In such a short space of time, the world that we know has become quite a bizarre place to be in.