{"id":2263,"date":"2020-08-15T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2020-08-15T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T18:30:40","slug":"how-covid-19-affected-me-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/15\/how-covid-19-affected-me-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Covid-19 affected me, in Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I grew up traveling around and my way of life is fundamentally international. When the coronavirus crisis hit, it therefore resulted in a fundamental shift in my day-to-day being &#8211; most prominently because I was not at college in Chicago, but rather living back with my parents on the other side fo the Atlantic, in Berlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But me being a fan of data and statistics, I didn&#8217;t let this exceptional opportunity to learn something about myself and the situation I found myself in go to waste without making some graphs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the 1st of January 2019, I have run a spreadsheet where every day I log my personal well-being along with a whole bunch of other daily statistics, like steps walked, time I woke up, and whether I was angry, sick or sad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This allowed me to directly compare my life before the pandemic to my life during the pandemic, and how things had changed. For that, I found an average daily value for each variable and compared the pre-covid period to the covid period. I did this for several reference time periods, but the one I think is the most comparable is my college year leading up to the outbreak in March, so September 2019 through March 8th, 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_01.png 600w, https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_01-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>A graph I made of how the time of the first wave of Covid compared to my college experience before.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found some rather interesting, if not necessarily too surprising things. For instance, the average daily distance I traveled by car increased by 100%. Not too surprising, as I don&#8217;t have a car at college and very rarely take an Uber or taxi, but back in Berlin, my parents have a car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My overall well-being took a hit, decreasing almost 25%. That&#8217;s not too surprising and wasn&#8217;t terrible, but there was an added number of stress factors (even though my stress actually decreased by 19%) and things that brought me down, such as a closed border between me and my girlfriend, who was over in Poland &#8211; a country that kept its border to Germany and for Austrians closed until June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no moral to this story. I just wanted to share my cool graphs with you. Here are the other two graphs that I have selected of the many I have made; I thought that they have the most interesting and relevant time frames for comparison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_02.png 600w, https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_02-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_03.png 600w, https:\/\/myredsuitcase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Corona_impact_03-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up traveling around and my way of life is fundamentally international. 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