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How has the virus affected you directly?

bigb said:
As a self employed electrician, I’m in the “I don’t know, yet” stage. Everything that I’ve had in my schedule is still happening, as of now. But those are all small things, and not a ton of them. Not enough to keep my doors open. We’ll see what happens with the big projects I’ve been hearing about but aren’t official yet.
I’m worried about availability of supplies. My suppliers have been saying for weeks that we’re going to run out of things because the factories are in China. Anything here already will be sold. Anything en route before the **** hit the fan will be sold. But then it will be four months AFTER factories come back online before we can start getting things like LED lights.


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What area do you cover? I had forgotten you do electric and I remember a couple people here have used you. I'll be finishing a room in my basement at some point (who the hell knows right now) but was planning to start framing soon.
 
NAOS said:
I’m in the entertainment industry. Since I’m in the most unremarkable middle point in this vast sea of Funny Money, I don’t yet have a good sense of when and how severely this will hit me, financially speaking.

Right now, my company is almost at a full stop until some events on April 8th that have yet to be cancelled. We expect them to be cancelled, of course. The next wave of events is April 14th. We also expect these to be cancelled. That’s as far out as the normal scheduling process had reached before the national emergency hit—and now there’s no movement on anything beyond that date. Radio silence... There’s not even an institutional logic that our clients can share with us so that we can prepare ourselves.

Contractors like us cannot carry around a large cash reserve (for things like this—or for anything, really) for a variety of intractable reasons. Basically, the film production companies are designed to keep us on the edge of solvency (... it’s a long story). If the government doesn’t work to shore up private contracting companies of our ilk (and I’m not saying they SHOULD), then many of us will go out of business in very short order. My company has already furloughed people. Layoffs will happen ****ing soon.
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So making new porn is on hold. Got it.
 
Other than the shelter-in-place order here in SF, it hasn't affected me greatly. Very fortunate thus far.

Can't say the same for my brokerage account, though.
 
NAOS said:
On a bit more of a personal note, I have a pet that just started cancer treatment. I’ve had to wonder about whether she’ll be able to continue to receive treatments, and about the risks my wife and I are taking if/when we are able to take her in for treatments. This has added a very uncomfortable layer to all the other considerations.
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Sorry bro... that’s terrible! Sending good vibes your way!
 
Dang imma stop complaining (probably not but it’s something people say). I’m lucky I can work from anywhere... just stuck here with four bored kids out of school... if we could get some damn sun we could play in the yard but it’s been rainy and cold. I bought some expensive workout equipment to workout at home because the thought of 2-3 months with no gym made me nutty.

Wish you guys the best that are going through tough struggles.
 
I work from house now. It kind of sucks because my house just isnt set-up for being productive. I'm going to need to buy a better chair, desk, and lamp.

The main thing is just that I'm worried about my parents.

That and not going to gym freaking blows. I can do pull-ups on the tree outside and we have a heavy *** boulder I can do lower body work with, but it's just harder to motivate myself without heavy weights. Bought some exercise resistance bands to do stuff with. Just freaking blows because I've made a lot of progress in the last 5 months.
 
My office today informed me they wanted me to work from home, but their requirements to do so are so rigid that I cannot meet them (a locked room in the house that only I will access which has a modem, ethernet connection and all). I live with my mother in a small house and there is no such room. So I will still be coming into the office. Fine by me.

Mostly my life has been impacted by trying to get my 82 year old mother to quit running so many errands. She hates being cooped up and hasn't been too cooperative. Since I already have a lot of health problems, my activities have been curtailed anyway so I'm not giving up much.

Good luck to all of you who have it much harder than I do in making this work.
 
I work for a contractor on Hill Air Force Base. I can't believe that it hasn't been closed to all non-essential personnel yet. Thousands work there. One case of COVID-19 will spread like wildfire. Talking with some people up there today they all seem to think "it will get shutdown if things get bad' which seems like the idiotic approach to me. It should get shutdown BEFORE things can get bad.

As a company we've already experienced several people quit in the last week alone due to the concern.

I care for my 70 year old father. I'm concerned about bringing the virus home with me. But without my job we're on the streets. Idk what to do.

My aggravation level is rising. All these damn politicians are preaching social distancing. But they won't shutdown places like this and pay workers while its down. Hypocrites. All of them.
 
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