Anybody else get furloughed from their job due to Coronavirus?

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this here yet, but there's a helpful Facebook group for US-based industry freelancers entitled: Entertainment Industry workers affected by COVID-19

Many good resources posted there.
 
puredrifting said:
Here in Ca., we are on total lockdown by state order. So there literally is nothing we can do to make money unless it's from home only.

I shot a video last night that I am editing today for a friend who has a quick solution for overflow patient isolation rooms so I flouted the stay at home rule and drove to his warehouse to shoot the video last night. We were very careful about distancing ourselves as I shot it
and I'm editing it today so he can show County and State Health officials who are needing to implement more beds and patient isolation as this thing ramps up. No money but it feels better to do something to help my community than to sit around fretting over no income.

I discovered that Amazon is still hiring locally here, I think they are falling under "essential services" but working there is taking a big chance at much more exposure so I am on the fence. They are paying $18.00 per hour until 04/30 so it's tempting, making a grand or two beats making literally nothing, but it's
a risk too. Any of you coming up with ways to make money being stuck at home?
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One of my audio guys was trying to get signed up with some of the delivery services, including Amazon and either he was too late to the party or they just wouldn't accept him for one reason or another. He also said today that they aren't even listing any warehouse jobs, even though we have several large distribution centers located here(3-4, now, I believe).
 
I had the client ask about the postponed Indonesia shoot being ready with a final edit by Q4... implying a revisit to Indonesia by August or September timeframe. Possible, but I’m skeptical the world will be ready by then. Reports say COVID could linger in Indonesia for sometime, and I doubt we’ll have a vaccine by then.

Just throwing this out as it made me think how this could potentially affect our work longer term. The effects may linger even after the developed world regains footing... reflecting on this made me wonder if I’d be willing to go back out there again prior to the development and availability of a vaccine.
 
Getting laid off from my engineering job as projects are being delayed. Fortunately we are in OK financial shape with no debts and low cost of living. Looking forward to having time to work on a long term doc project I have hours of footage for.
 
Razz16mm said:
Getting laid off from my engineering job as projects are being delayed. Fortunately we are in OK financial shape with no debts and low cost of living. Looking forward to having time to work on a long term doc project I have hours of footage for.
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I just asked you about your job's status last week when you shared some info about it; it sounded okay...is that the same one?
 
I didn't like how a signature extends your box. Just creates an unnecessary waste of space.
 
NorBro said:
I didn't like how a signature extends your box. Just creates an unnecessary waste of space.
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Also does the same if you have an avatar/picture. I noticed how much larger my text box became after adding the pic to mine, even with just a single line or two written.
 
filmguy123 said:
I had the client ask about the postponed Indonesia shoot being ready with a final edit by Q4... implying a revisit to Indonesia by August or September timeframe. Possible, but I’m skeptical the world will be ready by then. Reports say COVID could linger in Indonesia for sometime, and I doubt we’ll have a vaccine by then.

Just throwing this out as it made me think how this could potentially affect our work longer term. The effects may linger even after the developed world regains footing... reflecting on this made me wonder if I’d be willing to go back out there again prior to the development and availability of a vaccine.
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Dr. Fauci says 1.5 years from about a month ago for a clinically tested, approved, effective vaccine and keep in mind, what's terrifying about this virus is the speed and agility it has already exhibited as it mutated into the L and S strains in less than 10 days. Any vaccine for this thing will be like the Influenza vaccine that
they have to guess at each season to see which strains are prevalent in the patient population. They can't have dozens or hundreds of vaccines for one virus. In my years of work for Biotechs and Pharma, I never worked specifically on writing scripts and producing content specifically about viruses, it was mostly about
research for cellular and molecular therapies, new drugs like Epogen, Neupogen and a few RA drugs like Enbrel. But I know enough to know that most of the population has unreasonable expectations of a "cure" for this, and that it's not so easy to get a handle on because of the rapid mutation factor.

I don't want to sound alarmist, but I don't think the world and life as we know it will ever be the same. The new normal is going to be very, very different. It's kind of statistically unusual that something like this hasn't happened already many, many times.
 
On the upside, a good client called me yesterday, had me sign up for Zelle and paid me half of an invoice her company owed me. That was nice of her, she's struggling just as much as all of us and she has a staff of five who are at home, still working, and she's still paying. She's waiting for Disney to pay her.
 
puredrifting said:
Any vaccine for this thing will be like the Influenza vaccine that they have to guess at each season to see which strains are prevalent in the patient population.
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That is unlikely, the mutation rates for coronaviruses is moderate and not even close to that of the influenza virus.
 
puredrifting said:
Dr. Fauci says 1.5 years from about a month ago for a clinically tested, approved, effective vaccine and keep in mind, what's terrifying about this virus is the speed and agility it has already exhibited as it mutated into the L and S strains in less than 10 days.

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I don't want to sound alarmist, but I don't think the world and life as we know it will ever be the same. The new normal is going to be very, very different. It's kind of statistically unusual that something like this hasn't happened already many, many times.
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In the UK the estimation is also 12-18 months for a vaccine. Listen to the medical experts not the politicians.
Also the planning looks like 6-12 months for self quarantine/restricted movement. Restarting in Q4 is looking doubtful.
The world will be changing a lot, permanently, as will a lot of working patterns.
 
puredrifting said:
I read and heard on NPR that the first mutation of the virus occured in less than 10 days. Seems pretty efficient to me?
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All viruses mutate, but coronaviruses mutate a lot less than the influenza virus.

Since you quote NPR:

Coronaviruses differ from flu viruses in another key way that reduces the number of mutations. They proofread their own genomes when they copy themselves, cutting out things that don't seem right. "They maintain this ability to keep their genome pretty much intact," says Vineet Menachery, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch. "The mutations that they incorporate are relatively rare."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...ting-but-that-may-not-be-a-problem-for-humans

And today in the news:

Scientists studying the novel coronavirus’s genetic code say it does not appear to be mutating quickly, suggesting any vaccine developed for it will likely remain effective in the long term.
Peter Thielen, a molecular geneticist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, told The Washington Post that there are only about four to 10 genetic differences between the strains infecting people in the U.S. and the virus that emerged in Wuhan, China.
“That’s a relatively small number of mutations for having passed through a large number of people,” he told the newspaper. “At this point the mutation rate of the virus would suggest that the vaccine developed for SARS-CoV-2 would be a single vaccine, rather than a new vaccine every year like the flu vaccine.”

https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...avirus-is-not-mutating-and-might-respond-to-a
 
It was announced that freelancers and gig economy people will get unemployment benefits from the $2 trillion package.
 
It's not clear. Small businesses will get loans. This is what the NY Times reported: "the program was broadened to include freelancers, furloughed employees and gig workers, such as Uber drivers."
 
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