In the past 36 hours, six friends who work in the hotel business have been laid off after a massive

[MelissaB]

In the past 36 hours, six friends who work in the hotel business have been laid off after a massive decrease in business due to corona virus.

Link to tweet

[Squinch]

1. And so it begins.

[CentralMass]

2. :-(

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Sad to here that crap.

Just the start.

[dalton99a]

4. The domino effect will be significant

Transportation, hotels, restaurants, stores, etc.

And all the companies in the supply chain and other service industries supporting them

[Sherman A1]

10. Precisely

The ripples are just starting to hit the water in this event.

[getagrip_already]

52. It goes even further - companies deferring contract workers.....

I'm an IT consultant and I do a lot of on site work. I just had a client defer any additional work because they didn't want someone who travels in from out of town on-site every week.

Usually this type of customer doesn't allow remote access for contractors for security reasons.

If this continues, I will get to bunker down and avoid the virus..... But I won't get much work.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. No surprise.

The travel and hospitality industries are going to take a big hit, which in turn will affect the whole economy.

I was working for an airline on 9/11 and saw the results, and I think this will be worse.

[Demovictory9]

6. sad

[Caliman73]

7. It is worrisome.

I have plans to go to the City (San Francisco) this weekend. Stocking up on travel hand sanitizer. Thought about cancelling but it is too late to get a refund and I don't want to give in to panic.

It is sad that so many people are starting to take a hit.

[kimbutgar]

22. SF resident here. SF is prepared for virus

They are deep cleaning all the public transportation. Everywhere I go nowadays has hand wipes. I see grocery workers wearing gloves and some retailers are providing wipes for shopping carts. I have gotten flyers in my mail on how to protect ourselves. I work in the school district and we get updates everyday. Our city is being proactive not reactive.

Enjoy your visit in SF!

[Caliman73]

26. Planning on it.

Like I said, it produces some worry, but we cannot let worry get in the way of life. We have to take some precautions but it should be fun. We are going to the Academy of Sciences with the kids. Staying in a nice hotel in Burlingame and just planning on some fun and relaxation.

[kimbutgar]

27. Have fun

The Academy of Science is awesome. I go once every year as they change up the exhibits. Also the Japanese tea garden across the way is nice place to go. And if you’re really adventurous there is Stow lake where you can rent a paddle boat and go around the lake. Walkable distance from the museum.

[dflprincess]

41. Not knowing how familar you are with San Francisco, I'll give you to pieces of advice

Scoma's
Tadich's

Enjoy!

[BusyBeingBest]

8. Four cases now in Colorado. Ski resorts are lucky

that the season will be winding down in a month or so.

[GulfCoast66]

9. Here in Central Florida it feels like everyone is whistling past the graveyard.

The first case at a theme park and you will see 500,000 low paid workers with limited benefits or savings laid off.

And it could happen quick.

My wife and I both work for a uuuge tourism company. Fortunately we have resources. Many don’t

[PupCamo]

11. wouldn't they qualify for unemployment

the park workers

[GulfCoast66]

23. Yeah. But when barely surviving that is problematic.

And lots of the workers are part time with no healthcare. Florida under republican rule never expanded Medicare.

[questionseverything]

31. you mean medicaid?

n/t

[GulfCoast66]

37. Yes. Of course. My bad. Went with the iPod suggestion with out reading. Dumbass moment. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

46. Unemployment is invariably less than the actual paycheck.

So if you are already living at the edge, it will get worse.

[MoonlitKnight]

47. Even worse in Florida

Payments are quite low.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

48. Many years ago I was on unemployment.

In a way I was lucky in that my actual living expenses were quite low. One unemployment check paid my rent. The other bought me food and paid the one or two other bills I actually had.

For me, the continuing effect of relative poverty is that I'm pretty good at living below my means.

[at140]

53. When I was under 30 years age

I lived like a pauper, saving 50% or more of my earnings. It has paid off in my old age now at 79.
My first apartment at 310 West Belden street in Chicago cost $50/month in an old building with bugs galore.

[cwydro]

15. I worked for Disney years and years ago.

I bet they’re worried sick about it.

I wonder if they’ve seen a downturn. They guard their attendance numbers very carefully.

[kimbutgar]

19. I'm going to Disney and next week

It will interesting to see if there are large crowds. We have our hand sanitizer and plan to put some plastic gloves in our backpacks. I refuse to be scared.

[cwydro]

21. Good for you!

Besides, you’ll be outdoors most of the time, and the lines aren’t too bad this time of year.

Have fun!

[GulfCoast66]

25. Disney is installing hand sanitizer dispensers around their parks.

[GulfCoast66]

24. I really can't say anything;-)

[Johnny2X2X]

12. This will be quick

They cannot afford to be “the hotel” that had an outbreak, that could ruin their brand nation wide for a long time.

[shanti]

36. If this hotel is having problems

just think of Trump's properties.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Spring break is toast. But Trump will get a bailout

[cwydro]

16. Spring break is happening now.

I haven’t heard of any slowdown there.

[MontanaMama]

14. I'm seeing now that travel insurance isn't covering trip cancellation

due to covid19.

[customerserviceguy]

44. That's insurance

The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away. My old boss used to say that, and that was at a title insurance company.

[stillcool]

17. wow...It's beginning to sink in...

why those test kits are so important in stopping the spread. Damn, it's getting a little real.

The CDC’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained
The US has done 2,000 coronavirus tests. South Korea has done more than 140,000. What gives?
By Brian Resnick and Dylan Scott Mar 6, 2020, 4:50pm EST

-https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/6/21168087/cdc-coronavirus-test-kits-covid-19-----------------------------------------
The figures we gathered suggest that the American response to the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has been shockingly sluggish, especially compared with that of other developed countries. The CDC confirmed eight days ago that the virus was in community transmission in the United States—that it was infecting Americans who had neither traveled abroad nor were in contact with others who had. In South Korea, more than 66,650 people were tested within a week of its first case of community transmission, and it quickly became able to test 10,000 people a day. The United Kingdom, which has only 115 positive cases, has so far tested 18,083 people for the virus.

Making matters worse, some people who have sought tests in the past few weeks have been turned away. And these shortcomings make it harder for the public health community to react to a virus that spreads quickly and easily.

Many people don’t really show symptoms of Covid-19, or their symptoms are very mild, but you want them to be tested anyway if there is an opportunity. To do that, doctors need to be able to order the test, which the CDC is only now permitting them to do. Commercial labs only recently started processing the coronavirus test, too, a step health care providers had been urging the administration to take.

[BigmanPigman]

30. Chris Hayes is discussing this on his show now.

All of this info was running through my head as Iistened to the Pence presser.

[kimbutgar]

18. My husband works for a major airline

They are asking for people to take unpaid vacations and overtime is no longer permitted. There is a hiring freeze. He knows furloughs are coming, luckily he’s got 30+ years union protections for now.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

49. Was he working for that airline in 2001?

I'd be curious to know how this compares.

[kimbutgar]

50. Yes, did not get laid off

[Tech]

20. Trump asking for money for tourism industries.

I don't think he is planning on helping the peons. Just he and his family and other rich hotel owners.

[RandySF]

28. My wife was also temporarily laid off.

[BigmanPigman]

29. I wonder how much of tRump's personal travel businesses will

lose $$$ (or profit?). After all, he saw this coming and probably made deals and bought as well as dumped stocks over the past two months instead of caring about the virus and the US citizens' health, employment and finances.

[AdamGG]

39. Except that he's incompetent at business

So he probably didn't short his travel assets.

[BigmanPigman]

40. I hope you're right.

That would be his Karma. Good con man, bad businessman. More Karma would be his becoming infected from one of his cult at one of his rallies.

[yaesu]

32. Being that we are a service based economy this could be disastrous nt

[questionseverything]

33. my sil machines parts and has been laid off 3 weeks

the metal he works with comes from china and it is not being delivered because of the quarantines

[warmfeet]

34. This is exactly why we should help everyone, at the Federal level.

Everyone that needs help, gets help.

Actually, should be global level. I wish we were there. I hope we have the opportunity to get there.

[shanti]

35. There will be lots of collateral damage

I am expecting it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

38. I've been wondering when it would begin. So it has.

[rainin]

42. Just heard the breadwinner in our household may be laid off

Travel industry. We're f*cked

[jmbar2]

43. Website for advance warning

https://www.thelayoff.com/

[Farmer-Rick]

45. There hasn't been a single business that Trump hasn't ruined by getting into.

He was bound to destroy all our US businesses once in control.

But leave to the idiotic filthy rich to put a psychopath and fool in charge of our entire country.

[beachbumbob]

51. tip of the iceberg sad to say, just the very beginnings of this

mess

[KPN]

54. Flew from Boston-Seattle-Portland this past

Tuesday on Alaska Air. Lots of empty seats on the cross country leg. I mean lots. Many people had the full 3 seat row to themselves. Most rows had only 2 of 3 seats filled. Empty aisle seats. Haven’t seen that in decades. The economics of Covid-9 is getting very real.

The flight btwn Seattle and PDX had a lower percentage of open seats, but still quite a few more than usual.

[empedocles]

55. Was in DC this week. On Wednesday went to the museums. No lines or security delays.

No droves of school kids, just a few batches. Well less than half the usual crowds.

[At first, I didn't get it. Thought, spring break? Now I'm thinking of canceling my flight to Boston in two weeks].