Speak for yourselves. For anyone whose wellbeing improved, they likely have everything in place already. They have stable jobs, stable families, stable savings and income sources, people they are either able to see in their homes or regularly elsewhere, and are not affected by travel bans and other effects of the viral outbreak.
My wellbeing is at an all-time low and has continued to deteriorate since January. My family is split across the world due to unnecessary travel bans. Everyone in this thread is saying how the lockdowns were unnecessary long term but then everyone is seemingly okay with the government killing people's jobs and splitting up families with travel bans that don't take anything into consideration. There's no reason why travel for family members and H1B workers and immigrants, especially those in extraneous situations, is still blocked when hotel quarantines could be put in place, just like they are for inter-country travel. Just in my circle alone, the U.S. has lost a dozen or so Chinese citizens who hold advanced degrees or who are doctors who were either forced back to China, wanted to go back (and get out of the U.S.), or can't come back to the U.S. Good luck with the brain drain since these people were working for U.S. hospitals and companies. Not only are we losing people who were already here and wanted to be here, we're going to lose countless more who would have come to the U.S. in the future. This will have consequences.
My fiancée is locked out of the country. We can't sell her car because she's not here and there are policies in place that protect against the situation. Online car selling websites have auto-locked our account since she logs in China, and I log in from the U.S., and they won't re-open it as "you can't sell your car while on vacation" (direct quote). The title transfer process is difficult if not impossible while she's out of the country, and we need help, but the RMV is not responsive. If you can even find a phone number for the RMV, you call and then it states they have high call volume and then says to call back tomorrow and then automatically hangs up on you. We're paying for a car, including insurance, that just sits around and can't legally sell it without embarking on a process that could take months and capital to simply secure the title before even attempting to sell. People always support insurance companies as if they decide your premium based upon statistics and probability. So what's the probability that our car that just sits parked and is driven once every week or two gets damaged and why haven't our rates gone down to reflect this greatly reduced probability? Yet, if I got a ticket tomorrow, they'd have no problem raising the rates.
My rent actually was increased in March, and rent everywhere seems as high or higher than before as I try to move due to noise issues with my neighbors. Our marriage is getting delayed by years due to this. We can't get through the travel bans or anything else because we're not officially married (we had planned on doing it immediately after coming back from China), and we can't get married unless we're together, yet you can enter into all sorts of other legal agreements remotely.
Policies are not updating with the situations, if anything they're regressing, and everything is moving in molasses. Everything is taking at least twice as long as it did before. Prices are actually increasing for things. All the predatory behavior on people has increased and now people have a new excuse (COVID) on why everything doesn't work or is slow.
If your wellbeing has improved during this time, good for you. For those of us where it hasn't, it has deteriorated exponentially. And my family is in the best of the worst cases. We still have our jobs, have places to stay, and have supportive families. I truly feel for those struggling. The narcissism of people to think that they're happier because their commute is gone is mindboggling, when people are dying or living as death on a daily basis due to everything going on.