How is Covid 19 affecting your livelihood?

[OkieKubota]

Quick update...who knew my chosen line of work would be so popular during a global pandemic! Phone ringing off the hook, text, job quotes, site visits, want it done right now, etc...people off work right now so wanting to get projects done on their land...moved off this job yesterday (looked like this when I started)

And this when I left...

with a healthy tip on top of hourly, moved to pond bank modification and talking on phone the rest of the time. Got to run to Jay now to look over another one. Needs started by Monday. Pond bank needs finished by Sunday and dozer moved...


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[THE LLC]

I’m starting to believe none of us will live to see deer season.....

 

[OkieKubota]

I’m starting to believe none of us will live to see deer season.....

Listening to the media?

 

[THE LLC]

LOL. Yep.

 

[Cap'n]

I’ve been very fortunate with everything going like it is. My business is exempt from shelter at home because it’s deemed agricultural. My sales aren’t as good as In years past but most of that is because we aren’t able to go out and meet with customers. My wife and daughter are off work and will be for weeks, possibly longer.
So I came out here to my place at Lake Tenkiller in eastern okla to see if I could stock the freezer full of crappie and sandbass and the damn lake is flooded and ramps are all closed. I went around all the barricades last year during all the flooding so many times the Rangers have it in for me, so I’m going to be good this year and let them hassle someone else.
I was supposed to be at Ft Gibson Lake with 4 customers on a guided Spoonbill fishing trip last Wednesday and Thursday but the Lodge there shut down and we had to cancel.
So I’m going to plant my Ozark Chinkapin’s out here tomorrow and go back to OKC so I can fish Sunday.

 

[OkieKubota]

I’ve been very fortunate with everything going like it is. My business is exempt from shelter at home because it’s deemed agricultural. My sales aren’t as good as In years past but most of that is because we aren’t able to go out and meet with customers. My wife and daughter are off work and will be for weeks, possibly longer.
So I came out here to my place at Lake Tenkiller in eastern okla to see if I could stock the freezer full of crappie and sandbass and the damn lake is flooded and ramps are all closed. I went around all the barricades last year during all the flooding so many times the Rangers have it in for me, so I’m going to be good this year and let them hassle someone else.
I was supposed to be at Ft Gibson Lake with 4 customers on a guided Spoonbill fishing trip last Wednesday and Thursday but the Lodge there shut down and we had to cancel.
So I’m going to plant my Ozark Chinkapin’s out here tomorrow and go back to OKC so I can fish Sunday.

This time of year lots of flooding...lake and river folks have it rough all the way past Memorial Day weekend. I got the pond remodel done yesterday, got paid + tip, showing other home to new renters tomorrow, bringing dozer home tomorrow and doing a Brushhog job just a few miles south of my location tomorrow...Wednesday I start a new clearing job with the dozer a few miles north of here...steady work so far...

 

[Mennoniteman]

Lancaster county PA has a stay at home order in place since 8pm last night. The roads are deserted and things seem somewhat strange around here. But it won't be long until this is the new normal, I predict a black market starting if things aren't loosened up eventually. Thursday the state police stopped at a local machine shop to make sure that they are not open for business, which they weren't, of course, the local people know enough to go in the back door if they need something.

 

[OkieKubota]

Lancaster county PA has a stay at home order in place since 8pm last night. The roads are deserted and things seem somewhat strange around here. But it won't be long until this is the new normal, I predict a black market starting if things aren't loosened up eventually. Thursday the state police stopped at a local machine shop to make sure that they are not open for business, which they weren't, of course, the local people know enough to go in the back door if they need something.

Auto mechanic/machine shops here are considered essential businesses as are several others including mine which is construction...so far the only completely shutdown businesses I have seen are casinos, bars, concerts, drag races, church services, or anything else that congregates large numbers of folks in small places. I only deal with my customer and we don’t shake hands or get real close to one another...the rest of the time I am where I am supposed to be which is out in the sunshine...working...

 

[Buckly]

People are going to find a way to get things done. Meanwhile I was at Home Depot today. It was packed. I saw no one sick and people stayed clear of each other. You go in get your stuff and then get out. Use your sanitizer and wash your hands. If they can do it a lot of business should be able to do it. Not all but people are going to start opening up the back doors on their own. The sooner the Government figures that out the better. Concerts and sporting events will be last on line I’m sure. Large groups. But business can adapt and be open I see it working

 

[Buckly]

Lancaster county PA has a stay at home order in place since 8pm last night. The roads are deserted and things seem somewhat strange around here. But it won't be long until this is the new normal, I predict a black market starting if things aren't loosened up eventually. Thursday the state police stopped at a local machine shop to make sure that they are not open for business, which they weren't, of course, the local people know enough to go in the back door if they need something.

In our area there are 2 Business in PA that are suing the Governor over forcing them to close. They have a plan to keep staff and social distancing in place and there’s no reason they can’t be open. We’ll see how that goes. The State police I hear check them everyday to make sure they’re closed. You’d think they’d have more important things to do. There was another factory that was ordered closed but they fought it and gained a waiver so they opened back up. I hope we’re not in pay to play situations. Who knows with politicians

 

[Mennoniteman]

I understand the need for quarantines and non-essential shutdowns, if this flu is allowed to spread unchecked our doctors, nurses, and hospitals might very quickly be overwhelmed by it.
But the police going around knocking on doors making sure small mom and pop businesses are closed while Amazon and Walmart expand their businesses by huge proportions seems very authoritarian and unAmerican.

 

[weekender21]

I’m definitely blessed to be working for Uncle Sam through this.

The good:

More family time

The bad:

We’re supposed to move back to the mainland in June/July after 8.5 years of island life, the move could be postponed if this drags out.

Definitely will miss turkey season

Canceled a work trip we had planned that includes lots of great fishing in my off time.


I agree that this will be a much bigger and longer lasting blow to our economy than the 2008 bubble. The somewhat comforting news is that it’s not just the United States, the whole world will suffer through this one together. Hopefully (not holding my breath) we’ll learn many valuable lessons from this that will bring back more USA manufacturing and disaster preparedness.


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[OkieKubota]

I’m definitely blessed to be working for Uncle Sam through this.

The good:

More family time

The bad:

We’re supposed to move back to the mainland in June/July after 8.5 years of island life, the move could be postponed if this drags out.

Definitely will miss turkey season

Canceled a work trip we had planned that includes lots of great fishing in my off time.


I agree that this will be a much bigger and longer lasting blow to our economy than the 2008 bubble. The somewhat comforting news is that it’s not just the United States, the whole world will suffer through this one together. Hopefully (not holding my breath) we’ll learn many valuable lessons from this that will bring back more USA manufacturing and disaster preparedness.


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I worked for Uncle Sam from 2006 till July 2019 and then decided I needed a change. My wife still works for Uncle Sam and it’s very difficult on her being in healthcare and hospital administration. I worry about her everyday because she is so hands on during this difficult time due to staff shortages...she is an angel!

 

[Weezy]

Still working. I'm a aseptic operator at a pharmaceutical company that manufactures a flu vaccine. Feel lucky considering all the folks out of work.
Although the 1st employee with symptoms got tested today. So maybe I'll be aka working from home soon.

 

[buckdeer1]

This stuff is nothing to mess with believe what you want and I feel sorry for the small businesses but the only way to prevent a spike is to regulate how people gather to slow the spread.My daughter goes back to work at hospital tomorrow to finish her last semester of RN school.Shes nervous and so am I but I will be responding to 911 calls soon enough if it moves through like predicted. Neither hospitals or first responders will have enough PPE and thats the worst.Hopefully the small businesses can get some help and the US realizes they better build everything needed in the US.

 

[farmhunter]

2008 redo.

I'm afraid you might be right

 

[weekender21]

I'm afraid you might be right

Im afraid this will be much worse than 2008.


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[Hoosierhunting]

Im afraid will be much worse than 2008.


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I believe it will be also. We just kicked the can down the road in 2008 instead of taking our medicine. 20 years ago I had a teacher explain the law of diminishing marginal utility to me. One apple great, a peck-let’s make pie, a bushel-here comes the apple sauce, a dump truck-what the hell am I going to do with all these apples? (Clearly he wasn’t a deer guy). The Fed is going to get a rude reminder that law applies to debt too. Ie The marginal utility/productivity of debt. We’re at a point where each new dollar of debt is adding nothing to our productivity/GDP. In the 1960’s it was 1:1.


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[Drycreek]

I believe it will be also. We just kicked the can down the road in 2008 instead of taking our medicine. 20 years ago I had a teacher explain the law of diminishing marginal utility to me. One apple great, a peck-let’s make pie, a bushel-here comes the apple sauce, a dump truck-what the hell am I going to do with all these apples? (Clearly he wasn’t a deer guy). The Fed is going to get a rude reminder that law applies to debt too. Ie The marginal utility/productivity of debt. We’re at a point where each new dollar of debt is adding nothing to our productivity/GDP. In the 1960’s it was 1:1.


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At some point our monetary system has to fail. You just can’t keep printing money. It’s happened to almost every other country in the world, so why not us ?

My former business partner worked in Brazil for a couple years for a US based company. He said everyone woke up one morning and the government had moved the decimal place (on money) two places TO THE LEFT ! Think about that a minute. Your $100 bill was immediately worth $1. He and some other guys played poker every Friday night, he said he carried his money in a suitcase. They played with cruseros, not dollars, because that was the currency they used in country, even though they were payed in US dollars.

I hope this is not that, but it very well could be if it goes on long enough. Meanwhile, I’m keepin’ on keepin’ on as they say. Everyone stay safe !

 

[swat1018]

My wife and I are 50. We've both worked every day we wanted since college, and then some. I helped my wife file for unemployment last week, a first for either of us. I'll be working through it all.