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Re: Covid 19
I agree with buzz. Personally, rather than the $1000 to everybody, (I don't like that plan) I'd rather it go to unemployment (maybe increase the weekly pay per person). This cuts deep, small business, retail, restaurants, bars, uber/lyft, tourism, handyman contractors (who's bringing a stranger in to redo their carpeting/closets/drywall etc). It's really gonna trickle down. I work wedding videos although have been getting out of it as I'm getting older. I belong to a FB group & just seeing these indy people having no income, AND to give back deposits in some instances where they're booked on the reschedule date, its creating debt. That plus no leads are coming in. Whats disgusting is some couples are still trying to have them. Venues squeezing them in, thinking they're exempt (They just want the money. Period.) One wrote a brides is at her family farm so theyre not affected, I posted that for tax purposes, the 'farm' is likely a business to get tax favors, and to report them. Things like that. How many guests & staff are these morons putting at risk?
Having said that, Wuhan is reporting 3 days of no new cases, maybe they're misleading that a bit, but there's likely some truth around there. Hopefully by Memorial Day we start to get back to closer to normal.
Re: Covid 19
Don't believe anything China says.
And a good portion of the country won't be eligible for unemployment. Just give it to everyone and those who don't need it can donate it.
I don’t believe the China or US gov.
Just laid off my whole staff...said we will reconvene on April 6 unless otherwise notified. Technically i haven’t let them go yet...trying to figure out what’s better...unemployment or some small percentage of pay/stop gap situation. It really depends what on how long this lasts.
Re: Covid 19
There are some questions as to what 'leave' is and some are saying they'd be better off filing for unemployment now. Any thoughts on that?
What made this tough is that the government determined my service to be an 'essential business' and I could have rested my laurels on that but deep down I just could reconcile that.
God forbid if someone got sick and we infected the whole company or some actually died...I couldn't live with that.
I pay huge amounts into unemployment insurance and have for many years. In the mean time...I'm making sure that everyone's paycheck is full for the 25th despite mass cancellations during the last pay period. I guess I just wrestle with if that's enough.
Anyway, I bought myself a little time now to figure this out.
Re: Covid 19
"Japanese news outlet interviewed Wuhan doctors, and confirmed Wuhan has stopped testing, that is why new case = 0 there. They release people in quarantine early too."
Russia and Iran are doing something similar. Our respective governments aren't. Please keep that in mind.
Re: Covid 19
"Japanese news outlet interviewed Wuhan doctors, and confirmed Wuhan has stopped testing, that is why new case = 0 there. They release people in quarantine early too."
Russia and Iran are doing something similar. Our respective governments aren't. Please keep that in mind.
Why do we believe Japanese news but not Chinese? Why do we believe Russians but not Iranians?
Re: Covid 19
misterID wrote:"Japanese news outlet interviewed Wuhan doctors, and confirmed Wuhan has stopped testing, that is why new case = 0 there. They release people in quarantine early too."
Russia and Iran are doing something similar. Our respective governments aren't. Please keep that in mind.
Why do we believe Japanese news but not Chinese? Why do we believe Russians but not Iranians?
Seriously? Because Japan is not an authoritarian dictatorship steeped in lying and propaganda who are responsible for this virus and have lied and mishandled it from the outset, and China is? And I said nothing about believing Russia over Iran.
Re: Covid 19
There are some questions as to what 'leave' is and some are saying they'd be better off filing for unemployment now. Any thoughts on that?
What made this tough is that the government determined my service to be an 'essential business' and I could have rested my laurels on that but deep down I just could reconcile that.
God forbid if someone got sick and we infected the whole company or some actually died...I couldn't live with that.
I pay huge amounts into unemployment insurance and have for many years. In the mean time...I'm making sure that everyone's paycheck is full for the 25th despite mass cancellations during the last pay period. I guess I just wrestle with if that's enough.
Anyway, I bought myself a little time now to figure this out.
I don't know that anyone will have good answers for this until the government decides what they are going to do. Trust them or not, they have complete control over this situation and we/you are at their mercy. If you can, try to put off a drastic decision until they make a decision. You may not be able to, but that's the only way you're going to get an answer you can count on.
