How has the virus affected you directly?

[LogGrad98]

I don’t know if this is still pandemic related, but **** is getting hard to find. My supplier is constantly out of everyday, heavy use items. They say things like “we ordered x amount, but only got y amount”. Also, prices are going up quickly. Single strand #12 wire (the most common used inside conduits in commercial/industrial work) has gone up 10%+ in less than 4 months.


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Definitely covid related. I'm seeing the same thing with inventory for our customers in the distribution center. They can't get their stuff. Big problems getting things from China especially. Also we have had to do some pharmacy hopping to get needed medication as they keep running out. It's bad right now.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

My wife received the second vaccination (Pfizer) last week. Early on in the pandemic, we were pretty stressed out as my wife was treating sometimes 5 and 6 Covid patients per day, but no other patients were being tested or treated as Covid patients, so no PPE in those rooms. Over the last few months every patient gets tested prior to being treated, so it has made the process better.

Having gone from playing pickup ball 3-5 days a week and league play a day or two down to zero basketball has been a major bummer for me. I've gained the Covid "19" over the last year. I still hike, mountain bike and snowboard, but not nearly the same level or extent to get the same amount of exercise I get from playing basketball, and I hate/refuse to just run. I have some friends that continued to play outside, but I've seen too many people get hurt on blacktop (torn knees, etc.) that it isn't worth it for me.

Worried that even after vaccines it may take years to get people out on the courts regularly again (sometimes getting 10 consistently was hard before the pandemic).

A positive is I changed jobs to work from home to allow my daughter to avoid day care. Less stress and more time with the family...

 

[Archie Moses]

I don’t know if this is still pandemic related, but **** is getting hard to find. My supplier is constantly out of everyday, heavy use items. They say things like “we ordered x amount, but only got y amount”. Also, prices are going up quickly. Single strand #12 wire (the most common used inside conduits in commercial/industrial work) has gone up 10%+ in less than 4 months.


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Who's your dealer?

I work for a building product manufacturer and yes, we can't keep up. It's a blessing and a curse.

 

[candrew]

My wife received the second vaccination (Pfizer) last week. Early on in the pandemic, we were pretty stressed out as my wife was treating sometimes 5 and 6 Covid patients per day, but no other patients were being tested or treated as Covid patients, so no PPE in those rooms. Over the last few months every patient gets tested prior to being treated, so it has made the process better.

Having gone from playing pickup ball 3-5 days a week and league play a day or two down to zero basketball has been a major bummer for me. I've gained the Covid "19" over the last year. I still hike, mountain bike and snowboard, but not nearly the same level or extent to get the same amount of exercise I get from playing basketball, and I hate/refuse to just run. I have some friends that continued to play outside, but I've seen too many people get hurt on blacktop (torn knees, etc.) that it isn't worth it for me.

Worried that even after vaccines it may take years to get people out on the courts regularly again (sometimes getting 10 consistently was hard before the pandemic).

A positive is I changed jobs to work from home to allow my daughter to avoid day care. Less stress and more time with the family...

I was in two bball leagues and both of them shut down - none of the guys want to get together until this is over.

I mostly just worked on my broke jumper since then, lol.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

I was in two bball leagues and both of them shut down - none of the guys want to get together until this is over.

I mostly just worked on my broke jumper since then, lol.

All of our gyms are closed for bball. I have a sport court with netted ball return, so I shoot a lot, but that's about it. My jumper isn't broken, I'm just getting old and slow (and fat over the last year, lol).

I just worry my pickup games will take forever to start again.

 

[idestroyedthetoilet]

Having just finished my basement, I can tell you that the cost of building supplies has been all over the map. They spiked in September and lumber was 2x the cost of what it was when in the summer. Things got better in October/November, but December saw another massive 2x spike.

If you're looking at finishing your basement or other bigger construction (even buying a house), you may want to consider waiting until the spring when relief is expected. Builders are pricing new builds with these higher-priced raw materials in mind as they still have profit to maintain.

Home Depot going to be empty if the $1400 stimulus goes through. I may use mine to finish my basement and am considering buying the drywall, lumber, and electrical before.

 

[Avery]

Home Depot going to be empty if the $1400 stimulus goes through. I may use mine to finish my basement and am considering buying the drywall, lumber, and electrical before.

That’s a lot of raw material to store aside from your wire which would be cake.

 

[candrew]

Received my first vaccine shot today - nice to at least feel like I'm back on the road to some semblance of normalcy.

Also, just in case - Bill Gates is our greatest national treasure and a god damned good looking man.

 

[LogGrad98]

Received my first vaccine shot today - nice to at least feel like I'm back on the road to some semblance of normalcy.

Also, just in case - Bill Gates is our greatest national treasure and a god damned good looking man.

I'm happy for you.


I will say this, Gates is a savvy businessman and scuzzball who manipulated the laws to destroy many businesses, not caring one whit who he steam-rolled and the lives he destroyed to get on top of the hill. That said, he has done a lot with his ill-gotten gains to give back. That's in his favors and goes a long way to washing some of the blood off those diamonds. But let's not pretend the man is a saint please. He was an opportunist who muscled his way to immense fortune on questionable and downright illegal business practices that wiped out small businesses and competition and destroyed lives.

 

[lauriandres]

I'm happy for you.


I will say this, Gates is a savvy businessman and scuzzball who manipulated the laws to destroy many businesses, not caring one whit who he steam-rolled and the lives he destroyed to get on top of the hill. That said, he has done a lot with his ill-gotten gains to give back. That's in his favors and goes a long way to washing some of the blood off those diamonds. But let's not pretend the man is a saint please. He was an opportunist who muscled his way to immense fortune on questionable and downright illegal business practices that wiped out small businesses and competition and destroyed lives.

As i have worked as an IT support person since '94 i would say that the we could also blame the other companies too, which produced inferior products and customers/IT persons who chose better product for their needs (although it is not a customer's responsibility to keep hardware or software manufacturer profitable). IMHO it is not MS fault, that Wordperfect, Netware 4.0, Netscape, Borland (Paradox and Quattro Pro) etc etc were not as good for the customers as MS products. My last Netware experience ended around 2003 when i upgraded a customer server from Netware 3.12 to Windows 2000 - i am pretty sure the customer is not missing Novell products at all. Although i was skeptic at the beginning when i switched from MS DOS based Pegasus e-mail client to Outlook-Exchange around '99 or 2000 i am not missing that software.

 

[Gameface]

As i have worked as an IT support person since '94 i would say that the we could also blame the other companies too, which produced inferior products and customers/IT persons who chose better product for their needs (although it is not a customer's responsibility to keep hardware or software manufacturer profitable). IMHO it is not MS fault, that Wordperfect, Netware 4.0, Netscape, Borland (Paradox and Quattro Pro) etc etc were not as good for the customers as MS products. My last Netware experience ended around 2003 when i upgraded a customer server from Netware 3.12 to Windows 2000 - i am pretty sure the customer is not missing Novell products at all. Although i was skeptic at the beginning when i switched from MS DOS based Pegasus e-mail client to Outlook-Exchange around '99 or 2000 i am not missing that software.

It absolutely is not as simple as Microsoft just made better products.

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[lauriandres]

It absolutely is not as simple as Microsoft just made better products.

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I agree with you.

On my experience when the customer had to write a document and was able to choose between Wordperfect for DOS (version 5.0?) vs MS Word 2.0 or even 6.0, then you can 3 times guess (but 2 won't count ) what software was the chosen one. Plus the printer driver support of Windows 3.1 vs DOS or OS/2 based application.
Actually at the start of my career until '98 Netware was the main server OS i had to learn and support. With Windows NT 4.0 there was no turning back.
While competition is ruthless i would say that both Novell and Wordperfect (as i read now from Wikipedia - it was an Orem based company?) can only blame themselves that they hired the personnel who did the decisions they made.