Corona virus impact on business

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One thing is shocking to me, In my wife's district 85% of the kids on the "Free" school lunch program. She said some parents are freaking out about feeding their kids. SMH!

here they still hand out breakfast and lunches. They already do it in the summer in some places.

i can imagine now that, whether a little chubby or not, many were caught of guard with the unplanned expense, lack of income, and inability to stock up (shelves empty) especially in the food desert areas.
 

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Funny I went to a grocery store yesterday where the isles were ransacked but...the vegan and gluten free isles were untouched right along with an entire shelf of LIMA BEANS. People are not that desperate yet.

I noticed that last night too.

Everything I shop for was there (yeah I'm a health nut), and the shelves were bare of white bread, pasta, "lunch meat", cheese, snack cakes, prepared frozen meals...as well as toilet paper and of course cleaning products.

I also guess that a lot of the bread, lunch meat,cheese, and snack cakes were for the kids that usually eat at school to be fair.
 
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Being a janitorial company, I'm swamped. We started a more comprehensive cleaning program over a month ago, and I figured we would just eat the cost of extra products and labor. We had a reminder course for employees about ppe. The price of having a clean conscience. Then as the crazyness started we got email after email from our accounts asking about our cleaning process and products. The paperwork is more hastle than the work. At that point I realized this wasn't going away quickly, so I approached most of my jobs that hadn't already offered, and asked for an increased budget to make sure we are able to not miss anything. Not trying to take advantage of the situation, but we go through $600 in sanitizing wipes a month.
As long as our workers don't get sick themselves we will be ok.
 

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We're cleaning a bunch of shut-down restaurants. The owner wants to make sure they don't stink when they are allowed to open back up.



Side note: One of the priciest restaurants in Seattle is now a drive-through burger joint. Their $14 burger is cheaper than an extra bread stick at the old restaurant, so people want one bad enough to sit in a half-mile line.

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How many of us will actually stay home if we get sick?
How many of us will get tested if we think we have the virus?
If it means you can’t work, and you might go out of business, will you fudge it?

Think about that.


Today is 4 jobs.... Most my jobs have at least 2 people in the home... More now that everything is upside down and sideways.... You have no clue where or what about any of these homes you walk into.. But let's say that one out of everyone that I went into today had the virus..
We are looking at a 2 week incubation period before I even have a clue that I was infected... Do you realize how many different homes and the number of people I am going to come into contact with in a 2 week period... Not to mention once this avalanche starts how many people all these people are going to come in contact with.. So if you really think about it because our job requires that we bop from home to home with different people on a daily bases... We could be one of the worst carriers out there...... Or you could just go down to your local piggly wiggly and fight someone over the last roll of TP.... Same thing...
 
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After much consideration, I’ve decided that my team and I will be staying home for the next 2 weeks during this lock-down. Even if the risk is low for us, I don’t want to be responsible for spreading this virus to my customers, especially the older folks who are at higher risk. Hope it doesn’t go beyond the 2 weeks though, that could get tough.
 
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here they still hand out breakfast and lunches. They already do it in the summer in some places.

i can imagine now that, whether a little chubby or not, many were caught of guard with the unplanned expense, lack of income, and inability to stock up (shelves empty) especially in the food desert areas.
Our city does the same. Sad when kids don’t have food
 

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Have a connection in phx if you need chems and tp and hand sanitizers
 

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How many of us will actually stay home if we get sick?
How many of us will get tested if we think we have the virus?
If it means you can’t work, and you might go out of business, will you fudge it?

Think about that.

moral dilemma

I'll be glad to stay at home now that I'm a "salaried" sheetrockhED.
for the 30 years I wasn't, it was simple math....
work when you're sick if you want to eat ...period

as far as getting tested.
'bout the only way that would happen (then or now) is if complications from it put me in the hospital

would I "fudge it" if I KNEW I had c-19 is the moral dilemma to one who strives to be an upright righteous man

start here;
if three weeks down time would cause bankruptcy, got problems legion far greater than the flu

butt...taking it all the way
Yes, I would steal one of your piglets if my family was starving .
But I wouldn't risk killing you (knowingly carry a bug to a hi-risk'r)

...unless of course you were the only "food" left. :eekk:







..L.T.A.
 

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J&J Equipment in Phoenix

Think he has 5 cases


I am in Tucson.. If you can pick up a few cases I would be more than happy to drive up there and pay you for them and your time..

And no.. I am not hoarding or selling any of these I am merely handing them out to the elderly people who cannot get to the stores and desperately need something
 
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