I’m in Germany, so I have a pretty good safety net. But I was also lucky to have my wife to fill out all the paperwork and my parents to support us financially (and also with the paperwork) until it was all sorted out.

I get an early pension. The only bad part about that is that I have to reapply every three years or so. My wife gets paid to take care of me and we have an additional pool we can pay to external helpers.

On top of that I have disability insurance. I kind of was about to change it to a higher tier a year or so before Corona. But I didn’t feel like doing that paperwork. Now I wish I did.

Still, with everything together we can kind of keep living like we did before. I’m just missing around the house for chores and repairs and stuff.