Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[sdm111]

When Louisiana first decided to shut down for 2 weeks the owner decided to go with that but we as workers decided to go back to work after 1 week. Were an essential service so we didn't have to shutdown at all. Business as usual here. I'd prefer to be out working than not even if I get paid to not

 

[The Moonshiner]

Boy that was strange. My first post didn't post then merged half of it into my other post.

You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

 

[Shadrach]

How many of you'll were working and still are or were working and now aren't.

I'm still working but have had to cut some hours to stay employed. My boss is losing a lot of his income so times are tougher for him which makes times extremely tough for me financially.
I'm actually one of those that live from paycheck to paycheck.
No bank account, no savings, no credit card or credit. We live very cheap and was usually making it from week to week with a little cash in my pocket but lately about two days a week I'm down to nothing.
Luckily ive been used to being broke so long the economy going to hell doesn't scare me like it does most.
So many lately have been freaking out about finances I'm glad I'm not in that boat yet.
I am kinda jealous of the ones that are home all the time now. So many things I could be doing around the house that I still don't have time to.

Still working but not getting full pay which wasn't much anyway.
Not entitled to state benefit because I'm an immigrant here.
I'm due a pension from the UK but not until this time next year.
I can't sell my lamps because the fairs and shops are shut and I can't work at other farms because they can't sell their produce to pay for labour.
I don't quite live month to month, but when the people I work for could no longer work I was told not only couldn't they afford to pay me for the next three months, they couldn't afford to pay for the chicken and duck food either.
Spent the last of my cash on a months and a bits worth of chicken feed and filled the tank up on my bike.
Don't have bank cards or an account.
I'm not going to starve because I grow food and have chickens and if necessary can hunt.
There are lots like me in these mountains.
A group of us have been trying to get our surplus eggs to the homeless here and even that is proving difficult. There are lots of migrant workers here because of the crop picking and farm work. None of them get state support either.
Needless to say I get a little irritated when I read people complaining because they can't go out to eat or the various other things many seem to be worried about.

 

[chickisoup]

 

[chickisoup]

Still working but not getting full pay which wasn't much anyway.
Not entitled to state benefit because I'm an immigrant here.
I'm due a pension from the UK but not until this time next year.
I can't sell my lamps because the fairs and shops are shut and I can't work at other farms because they can't sell their produce to pay for labour.
I don't quite live month to month, but when the people I work for could no longer work I was told not only couldn't they afford to pay me for the next three months, they couldn't afford to pay for the chicken and duck food either.
Spent the last of my cash on a months and a bits worth of chicken feed and filled the tank up on my bike.
Don't have bank cards or an account.
I'm not going to starve because I grow food and have chickens and if necessary can hunt.
There are lots like me in these mountains.
A group of us have been trying to get our surplus eggs to the homeless here and even that is proving difficult. There are lots of migrant workers here because of the crop picking and farm work. None of them get state support either.
Needless to say I get a little irritated when I read people complaining because they can't go out to eat or the various other things many seem to be worried about.

We are good because we both have social security (gov. pension) and my DH gets a pension and medical from his job. Also, like you, we live in the country where we are able to stay far the infected crowds. There are many here too that are in the same condition as your migrant workers. our government is trying to get money to those who lost their jobs and/or their businesses because of the virus quarantines, but it's a huge task to try to do our entire country at once.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Still working but not getting full pay which wasn't much anyway.
Not entitled to state benefit because I'm an immigrant here.
I'm due a pension from the UK but not until this time next year.
I can't sell my lamps because the fairs and shops are shut and I can't work at other farms because they can't sell their produce to pay for labour.
I don't quite live month to month, but when the people I work for could no longer work I was told not only couldn't they afford to pay me for the next three months, they couldn't afford to pay for the chicken and duck food either.
Spent the last of my cash on a months and a bits worth of chicken feed and filled the tank up on my bike.
Don't have bank cards or an account.
I'm not going to starve because I grow food and have chickens and if necessary can hunt.
There are lots like me in these mountains.
A group of us have been trying to get our surplus eggs to the homeless here and even that is proving difficult. There are lots of migrant workers here because of the crop picking and farm work. None of them get state support either.
Needless to say I get a little irritated when I read people complaining because they can't go out to eat or the various other things many seem to be worried about.

How much is a months worth of chicken food?

 

[Shadrach]

We are good because we both have social security (gov. pension) and my DH gets a pension and medical from his job. Also, like you, we live in the country where we are able to stay far the infected crowds. There are many here too that are in the same condition as your migrant workers. our government is trying to get money to those who lost their jobs and/or their businesses because of the virus quarantines, but it's a huge task to try to do our entire country at once.

Before I came out here and worked in other areas, if I couldn't do the job; I was self employed for many years, I didn't get paid. As a self employed person and later with my own small company part of my work was to assess whether, or not I could do the job and turn a profit from it.
I'm not remotely interested in hearing about how the various politicians, banks and other blood suckers are trying.
When I was working elsewhere and couldn't complete the job or the work didn't come up to scratch, I would have been laughed out of town if I said I was trying. The answer I would have got is we don't pay you to try, we pay you to get the job done because that is what you said you could do.
If they can't do it then step away and find someone who can.
We here have heard lots about the great rescue packages worth billions of Euros is being rolled out by the state. Most of this money seems to be heading straight into corporate business pockets and banks.
It's funny, because they didn't seem to have any problems collecting their taxes and insurance money.
You may choose to beleive your government cares deeply about the poor and the disadvantaged but from what i've seen here and in the UK, they don't give a ****.

 

[BullChick]

 

[Shadrach]

How much is a months worth of chicken food?

25 kilos is 22 Euros here and I bought 75 kilos. I also bought straw, coccivex, and some other essentials. I spent a bit over 150 Euros. My pay was 200 Euros per month.

 

[FortCluck]

You really got to laugh.
I was restricted from making comments on this small chicken forum. For a post to sell some chicks. May 2019 !!! In fact it was declined back then because I posted in the wrong category, should have not been posted under Items for Sale. And they did not post it.

So I'm reading these posts in my box about why my comments have been held as "punishment".. So I wrote back how wrong they were including every one of my posts has been to help someone. Then I told them if they didn't remove it, I would no longer be a member.

I don't need this garbage. The facebook forum was "Indiana Poultry". Sheesh. Have a good laugh.

Facebook is something of my past. I don't even use it anymore