How does Coronavirus COVID-19 alter our workflow?

I feel that I have to keep working. Even if I’m stretching essential rules a bit. If I stop, I’d likely loose medical insurance. My wife needs the insurance as is, if anyone covered by it gets sick we are screwed.

My current plan is to see what the new unemployment laws will do, and perhaps get a fucken loan to keep medical insurance floating as business overhead. It makes me sick thinking of all the bills that would rack up, all due in June!
 
MN is shut down
Sucks, lay'd 4 of 6 employees off
Grapples not really essential
guidelines say any business providing equipment or support to forestry or Ag can operate
3 machine deals stalled, waiting till this clears - thats kinda positive
few calls for parts

My gut says - best case scenario we start pulling out of this mess late June July.
economy was strong all my contacts were humming along till 3 weeks ago
Biz is stocked up and I hope for some pent up demand in the fall
I moved BM to the barn behind my house so I am well isolated
we will work on upgrades - and a few new product R & ds
still have fed ex - ups - coming
Hard to learn to stop touching everything -

wanted to retire this fall and step off my rat race
If this prolongs til 21, well were all f'd even more
looks like my retirement plans are pushed out (quit whining)

so I hope mine and all other humans better nature shines through
Wish the Best to all my Arb Brothers and their families
 
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Alright so show of hands, those of you in a lockdown state, are you working? Full steam? Select jobs? And why?

I’m rationalizing, working pretty much as normal but taking precautions. If I shut down, I can’t pay health insurance. If I can’t pay health insurance my wife is fucked with her Lyme treatment, and we are really fucked if any of us get this damn virus.

Today took out 5 cedars to allow for a Apple orchard expansion. Dude is making a cider business. So I can read our gov’s guidelines and this is supporting a essential business in ag..
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I'm working solo and feeling fine with telling consulting/removal estimate clients to back away to 6 feet. Going to increase it to 8 feet because 6 feet becomes 4 feet. People creep in, it's in their nature. With solo work, I've gotten to the point over the years where I can often take on medium-sized removals by myself, so the big trees I'm just going to defer until I can deal with within-crew isolation effectively. I have two bids going out for big trees, so we will see how those end up. I need to research rigging rope sanitation methods.

I'm also parenting more, for the school week and for spring break, so my work schedule is getting backed up/slowed down.

On Monday I'll be popping a dead pine top onto a front yard. Tuesday I'll be niwaki pruning small/medium cedars. Wednesday morning I'll be consulting a neighborhood culling and pruning project, one homeowner at a time, and my lady will be on parenting duty while my son is in virtual class. Thursday I'll be dealing with a broken 18" back yard tree over a chicken coop that I might post in trees from a distance so I can't tell you what species it is... I also have a municipal report to write up, so probably do that Friday...

Anyways, I've got a full schedule with calls still coming in, and I'm working solo.
 
Cov19-115k.webp

We just had two more deaths, here... one in Omaha and one in Grand Island (which is closer to home)... I'm guessing that the largely rural ag state advantage is about to go away.

Nursing home and assisted living home here just had a wave of an unrelated virus (a stomach/digestive tract one) sweep through there. Both wife and I got it and recovered fine, but it really drove it home that if those facilities had been exposed to SARS-Cov-2 during this period... well, it probably would have killed about 90% of the residents, and who knows how many of the workers. They aren't even using any PPE there, at all. Owners feel it would panic the residents, who pay thousands per month to stay there. In these small towns, workers really can't afford to lose their jobs, so they get away with this crap.

Best and worst aspects of human nature both show up during crisis. I wish we'd see more of the former, less of the latter.
 
Ask a Costa Rica surfer the original post question. My wife just showed me a little clip of a man (cop?) running surfers off a beach and shooting (blanks?) at one. That's altering their plans.
 
I was in Costa Rica March 11-18 and two days before we left they declared a state of emergency. Many stores shut down, they closed their borders to any incoming non-citizens and overnight the grocery store near where we stayed had security guards, gloves, masks and bleach wipes. They are pretty laid back down there but the cops come down hard when pushed. Stay the eff home unless absolutely necessary. Here in Michigan we have become an epicenter of this crisis and still there are kids on college campuses out playing beer pong in big groups like idiots. My sister-in-law witnessed this on the U of M campus today from her car.
 
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I was in Costa Rica March 11-18 and two days before we left they declared a state of emergency. Many stores shut down, they closed their borders to any incoming non-citizens and overnight the grocery store near where we stayed had security guards, gloves, masks and bleach wipes. They are pretty laid back down there but the cops come down hard when pushed. Stay the eff home unless absolutely necessary. Here in Michigan we have become an epicenter of this crisis and still there are kids on college campuses out playing beer pong in big groups like idiots. My sister-in-law witnessed this on the U of M campus today from her car.
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Morons
 
We are working more or less as normal, as that is what PA currently allows. They deem tree services to be landscape companies, for classification purposes, and therefore consider us to be essential. The way I see it, all of our work is at least as essential as spreading mulch and planting flowers, so we will continue as long as we have work and permission.
 
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We are working more or less as normal, as that is what PA currently allows. They deem tree services to be landscape companies, for classification purposes, and therefore consider us to be essential. The way I see it, all of our work is at least as essential as spreading mulch and planting flowers, so we will continue as long as we have work and permission.
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Michigan’s governor specifically said landscaping is not essential but if a tree fell and blocks a driveway or on house or vehicles then that would be essential

Today is 6 days of us being on shutdown 8:00 this morning governor said shutdown most likely to be extended

So for the first time of my life I’m able to file for unemployment new law just went into effect for self employed are able to

Don’t know how long we can go without work
Good thing bids and jobs are scheduling almost like normal and customers are understanding
Good Luck
Stay distanced
Stay Safe
 
We're still shut down here. Have volunteered to help a friend of mine who own's a farm- 2 days per week for planting season. Get some free eggs out of it (better than nothing). Feel's kinda like 'Grapes of Wrath' ... Splitting wood, as well- what's left of my stock, at any rate.

Cases seem to be doing the 'exponential growth' thing in Ontario, and now there is an outbreak at our town hospital. Bunch of nurses sick.

What a s**t show! Really, REALLY looking hard at picking up and moving to a farm on the East Coast!!!!!
 
www.businessinsider.com

More than a dozen researchers predicted how the US's coronavirus outbreak will end. They estimated nearly 200,000 people could die by the end of the year.

Researchers estimated that the coronavirus could kill 195,000 Americans by the end of the year, but other models predicted more than 1 million deaths.
www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com

This article describes different scenarios and various numbers of deaths based on the response. No matter what I think this is going to be a big deal for a long time.
 
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