Dylan Sunderland counts himself among the lucky ones.
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The Inverell cycling professional is certainly luckier than most of his NTT Pro Cycling teammates. While they are in severe lockdown in Spain, a country being ravaged by the coronavirus, he managed to narrowly avoid the same fate.
He had planned to relocate to Spain for the European leg of his debut season on the UCI World Tour, but the Union Cycliste Internationale suspended racing before that happened.
The 24-year-old is now in isolation with his girlfriend at their Mooloolaba home. Unlike his teammates in Spain, he can still train outside. While the threat posed by the virus in Spain is much greater than it is in Queensland.
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Racing was suspended in late March, and that will remain the case until at least June 1.
Sunderland said Spain was the base for many professional cyclists.
"So most cyclists at the moment aren't even allowed to leave their home," he said. "I'm quite fortunate to still be in Australia.
"I was only about two weeks away from leaving to go to Spain, before things started to go pear-shaped."
Sunderland is lucky in another respect: "I'm quite fortunate I had a large racing block at the start of the year. So I'm one of the riders that actually has raced this year."
Sunderland - who finished eighth in the mountains classification and 63rd in the general classification at the Tour Down Under in January - has augmented his solo and pairs road work with online virtual racing against his teammates via the Zwift program.
He said: "It's a smart training system that you hook your bike up to, and it connects to a laptop or computer.
And everyone from around the world can ride together ... It's a pretty cool system.
"And everyone from around the world can ride together ... It's a pretty cool system."
The young rider said professional cycling had an inferior business model compared to some other major sports, meaning it was less affected financially by the coronavirus.
"I think that's what saving the sport at the moment: they're not relying on ticket sales, or anything like that, to fund teams. Teams are purely funded on sponsorship.
"So, I think that's the one thing that's keeping everything alive."
That said, Sunderland is aware that some riders have taken pay cuts - but not him.
His last event before racing was suspended was the eight-day Le Tour de Langkawi, in Malaysia, in February. He finished 21st in the general classification.
In another stroke of good luck, he was supposed to race in Dubai after the Malaysian event, but contracted the flu.
"That race I pulled out of actually went into full lockdown for three weeks because team members tested positive to coronavirus from other teams."
