Some of us have been hit harder than others. Wifey and I are still getting paid. We are blessed, my kids are still able to work too.

The only cost to me is going to be a little retirement lost, cause we were working overtime out the ass. My retirement is based on my best three years, so it will cost me some.

How has the virus affected you??

Been fortunate.

Just inconvenience really.

Work still going. Same hours.

No one i directly know has caught the china flu.

Got plenty chit tickets.

Plenty bullets.


A lot has to do with leaving in rural part of the state. We move slow around here on a normal day.

Hard to say exactly, as I have little overhead when I'm not fishing. I figure something around $25k gross.

We were due to get two raises between July and October (9.5% total). Theyre gone and we'll be lucky if there's not a pay cut on top of it.

Over the course of a career it will be a huge loss in pay and retirement benefits.

Been great for us

Wife got to work from home for 7 weeks, she planted a garden, built a fancy cabinet for towels in the guest bathroom, she’s helped me cut, load, and stack about a cord of wood.


No one missed a check

Rentals stayed rented and paid on time

And got $2400 direct deposit



She is back to reality today, recording questionaire answers curbside at a drive thru virus testing site.

Did not receive any fed funds.

Work is up, for now. But just got word my second largest client is pretty much shutting down all theair activities through the Fall. Means a loss of probably close to $100k. Making some of that up now, but will not make anywhere near all of it up.

If this crap keeps up, I stand to lose my biggest client and all the work that goes with them this summer and that will be well over $100k.

We will see.

Some losses can’t be measured in money. Constitutional rights once lost can never be fully regained. Lots easier to find a lesser reason the next round.

No. I’ve made money.

It hasn’t. But I know a lot of folks that it has. Not because of the corona itself but just over the crazy forced mandates to it. Many are in the services and entertainment industries.
But me personally, nada, and I’ve worked seven commercial iron jobs since this bs started. No less than three at one time. That is above my regular fab piece and repair work. Working in non ventilated, new reconstruction with metal framers, electricians, hvac, plumbers, sheet rockers And probably four or five more trades, walking all over each other and nobody wears a phugin mask. I don’t know of one friggin person that has caught this death plaque. I personally haven’t even heard of anyone either.

Not affected much - same income, less golf, more gun range time.

About 70,000 in bonuses, and received nothing from government, was on unemployment for 6 weeks and that cost me another 1400 bucks, on top of that my well went bad and had to spend 11000, so much more than I want to admit....

In the neighborhood of 25,000 or so.

Just waiting on the 3rd quarter.

Personally, down 50K. Business probably lost close to 700K.

Good news, we cut the bottom 10%.

No missed pay checks, I already worked from home 2 or 3 days a week now I am working from home 5 saving 50 miles a day on my vehicles.

We were told next years bonus will be cut in half but my retirement fund is doing fine. My etrade 401k I manage (using Motley Fool) is up 20% since Feb 1st while my wife's professionally managed account is down 8%. I subscribe to 2 of the Motley Fools Premium services, the best $300 a year stock advisor going.

Between business income losses and tanked stock portfolio probably north of 200 grand.

My sanity. My fitness.

I can still work and get paid.

Lawd have mercy! I done gots a check from Mr. Trump for $1200.
Plus insurance company done give me $50 more, I don't know why.

Lawd have mercy I be rich!!

1.1476% of my sense of humor.
What remained of my willingness to respect the opinion of democrats.
~$15.00 added to my electric bill from casting bullets.
-10# of lead alloy
5 gallons of diesel fuel
Misc. odds and ends

Haven't missed a day of work, it's actually created opportunity for me.

401K and brokerage accounts are up.

No commute, so more sleep and less spent on gas.

Really hasn't cost me anything. Paycheck still coming in. It really hasn't had much impact on me and my family at all.

I doubt if we will get our usual 3% raise. I forgot about that.

Not much. Never sheltered in place, seems like a dumb idea, so I don’t know how that affects people. Go to work, go fishing, go to the range, go to the grocery store, Traffic has been light so it saves me time and gas. Sometimes I miss going out to eat but that saves me money too. Retirement plan took a hit but it will recover. Mostly it reminds me of chicken little.

A forced close down for 7 weeks during our largest quarter sucked. Our quarter ended yesterday and I've been really pizzed off at the world. The restaurant will of been open for 2 weeks tomorrow and we're not even back to 50% yet. I've pretty much just gave up and will not vote till 2024.

The value of my investments dropped by $76,000 initially but now down about $40,000 following some recovery in the markets. Since I am retired my pension came in like clockwork, we didn't eat out so that saved me money. Put gas in my vehicle today, the first time since March 14th. None of our family got sick so overall I figure we came out winners.

Jim

Almost 4 weeks of turkey hunting on ft campbell.
Wanted ta whack at least 4.
Got 3 in Tn.
Didnt even go the last 2 days on post.


Need a teeth cleaning I got screwed outta on may 5th.

Dealing with masked morons.

Having ta see the Liberal Socialist Democrats burn the nation down with their media driven hype.

Self serve at Cici,s gone all to schitt....

Fugging chinese .
Fugging up every fugging thing .

#neutronbombpeking

Fuqkin Gooks

Too early to tell. Took revenue hits in the business of close to 90% for the first three weeks. Regrouped, beat the drums, bushes and innocent bystanders, and a bunch of unexpected business ran out. Just now coming up for air.

Still trying to figure out where we’re going to end up. I think it it won’t be too bad, we never had to ration feed to the animals, so growth never slowed.

Besides respect for people I thought were more reasonable... not much.Work was already in high gear and just got higher as those with permits wanted their work done faster in case of a full shutdown, it's showing no sign of slowing down... strange, construction is the one that usually slows down causing a recession, but not this time, we are slammed and the rest are hurting.

The closest lakes to the metro area were locked down, boat ramps and roads. I usually catch much of my yearly fish supply in march/april but not this year.

Kent

I'm retired so I haven't lost any work. My retirement IRA took a big hit but has partially come back. I think it'll recover when things get straightened out. I'm still getting monthly check from it at any rate. My pension and SSI haven't changed. The low gas prices have been great but since we can't go anywhere, it doesn't matter much. The biggest problem was that my wife was supposed to have knee surgery. It was postponed a month, non-emergency, but she finally had it done a few days ago.

401 and IRA dropped. I'm 50, that really doesn't matter, if we recover.

Wife and I worked like normal. No change, well got a bit of overtime.

Not being able to do much has saved me a pile. I have a bunch of money
left every week. Way more than normal.

17 year old daughter laid off for 2 months. She didn't want to get
unemployment. I finally told her to. 5 weeks worth will get her over
$3k. She made about $5k last year. Back to work now. Carrying food
out to people's car. The tips suck for that. So, she's working for a
tiny percentage of what she got for not working. Happy to be working
though just sad about the tiny tips.

Think of her when you tip the takeout people. They dont think in terms of work. They work to make you happy, and for tips.

She and her sister were to play travel ball this summer. The teams
are making noises about tournaments. Some are canceled.
Practices are not allowed, tourneys aren't either, yet.
And I don't think they will be.

Shouldn't the question be "What has the government's reaction to the virus cost you?"

The virus itself never imposed quarantine, closed borders etc. Granted the government never imposed the requirement for bulk buying of toilet paper.

Any takeout I got I tipped 10 bucks to the server, usually a 3 to 5 buck sitdown tip, but screw it I was making money and they were hurting.

Kent

Money is tight so I rented some low-rent hoochie and caught the herpes simplex 99.

Figure this is going to be a big impact on the road.

Now ask yourself what the dhimocrats' hate for America and the complicit co-conspirators in the media have cost your country.

Make no mistake it was Trump who shut the country down, all for a vote or money. He knew better but went ahead and threw some businesses under the bus for no reason. During the good times Trump deserved the praise, during the bad he deserves the criticism.

It's cost me faith in fellow man.....

That's no schit Bro, and I didn't have that much to begin with.

The real cost to all of us will be our freedoms.

Big hit to my retirement funds. Huge damage to my son’s businesses. Pretty much forced wife and I to be apart, her in Miami, me in North Florida. Daughter in law assaulted by WalMart over face mask. Killed my spring camping and hunting. Ruined a lot of fishing.

You bet Buddy, when this big bitch ruptures, it's going to be ugly navigating amongst the cuck sheep.

On the up side: We are very blessed.
- My job is still there and I get my full pay and benefits. I make enough I can help othes that have needed it.
- My employer all but insisted I work from home because I am immune supressed and they have given my the choice of staying out for quite a while longer if I want to. My choice.
- None of my meds I need to live are made in "Chi Nuh"
- The wife and I get to spend a lot more time togeher. I don't have to commute, which gives me 1 1/2 hours of free time per day!
- With extra time I've rediscovered my love for archery. New string on the bow and the 40-yard range is opened up out back.
- My mom is older but not in a nursing home thank God, so no virus concerns there. Both my daughters still have jobs and paychecks.
- I still live in the greatest country in the world.
- Christ is still my savior.
- Trump is still my President.
- Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, AOC, and now Biden are still jokes and the best the commies have.


On the down side: We are very blessed.
- My investments, net worth, or whatever are only down about $140,000. I'm still in the top 1% of the world.
- Both my daughters have had their paychecks reduced with one of them just barely making it. But I'm getting to see how tough, dedicated, and resilient they are. They listened to their old man, stayed out debt, and have a 6-month cash reserve to fall back on before they fall back on me. I'm so proud!

The commie virus has cost us all freedom. Politicians never let a crisis go to waste when it can be used to restrict our freedom

I work in healthcare...The industry seems to have been hit first and then it moved into other industries.

They cut my pay 25%, did not provide a merit increase, deferred bonuses until 4th quarter which we'll never receive and the company stopped matching contributions on 401Ks. Business was down up to 90% at one time due to no elected procedures being performed.

What did I gain? The ability to work remote which for me meant I could work from my farm (2.5 hours from my home) I purchased a few years ago. I've only been able to spend weekends and some vacation there (never enough time to do what I wanted). That and I got to spend some time with family while everything slowed down. I'll probably never have the same opportunity again.

I guess it's easy in hindsight to leave out the effect the "expurtz" had on him, No? Since hindsight is always 20-20.

I dont know.


We have seen bad markets before.


More bad markets than good.




Probably be a severe nut kicking this year.

Gun_Geezer, your daughters sound like out-freaking-standing Americans. God Bless Them, and hope their travails end soon.

KYHillChick trained for several years to become a massage therapist. When the Chinese Crud hit, she had to suspend her practice. She's now almost 62. They've lifted the ban kindof/sortof, but not enough for her to feel comfortable working. Meanwhile she's losing her conditioning. A massage therapist has the same requirements as an athlete. It's a very strenuous way to make a living. By the time she's ready to go back to work, her conditioning may be gone. She's filed for unemployment.

For me, the big thing was losing out on Turkey Season. I couldn't get over the bridge, and they suspended non-resident license sales. At work, I'm going to have to take a no-paid furlough for a week in June, but I'll be able to get unemployment for that.

Thinking along these lines plus 1k per week less take home. Was supposed to be my last year working but if things don't change quick I'll pull the plug come August.

Missing out on this years NM Elk hunt , was reluctant to spend the cash not knowing what the future brings.

I've already canceled two vacations with the family, a third might be down in the near future.

We missed our Alaska vacation, forgot about that.

It cost me my job, cost me many freedoms...and stole much happiness and joy in the past 3 months.

1st time in my life I’ve ever lived in fear.

Retired and on a pension and SS. So cash flow is normal. On paper, my portfolio is down a lot, but I have not sold a thing and it’s come back a lot.
Moving and just sold my house at about 18% over asking price. Not sure virus had any say in that.
So net zero loss here.

Cost us an extended western US road trip planned for April and May. Not a big thing compared to many. We will probably buy a travel trailer so as not to be stuck again. Luckily we live where we can get into the desert or mountains w/ ease so no cabin fever.

Hopefully people are paying attention and will not allow the govt. as free a hand during the next occurrence which is inevitable.


mike r

hardly any work the past months.

Sorry to hear this Quak. Sincerely hope things get turned around soon.

The resulting stock market crash and dividend cuts and suspensions has cost me about 1/2 of my monthly income. I didn't sell anything, and have been able to start new and add to existing positions for pennies on the dollar, so I anticipate a full income recovery within the next two years. A Trump re-election, and a repub majority in both chambers would be really comforting.

They switched our work schedule from 14 and 14 to 28 and 28. Wife has an extra 3 months off with pay. Where I live has seen little impact.

It's beyond me how a company can afford to pay a worker and not receive anything benefits from the worker. My son in law works a week and takes a week off paid. We're a family owned business and there's no possible way that we can afford to operate along those lines. But my 93 year old dad refused to let us apply for any government handouts.

In April, I took two hours off work to take care of something during reduced retail operating hours. They phucqked me!

I estimate that this farce will cost me all in total between $400,000 and $600,000 in cash and equity over the next 2 years. I’m not amused.

That doesn’t include unrealized market losses which could double that figure. Think I have an appetite for any Chinese food right now??🤮🤮🤮

Several million brain cells........ that is the price I have paid.......

Seriously though, I don't believe the true extent of the damage will be known for awhile.... I suspect it will be bad , inflation, declining real estate values etc.....

The "new normal" will be eye opening bad as in great depression bad....

This is all true, but being president is hard work. Everyone is your enemy. He's gotta realize that.

I was pro - Trump early on and remain that way, but he deserves a hefty dose of criticism. The governers are who really trampled us. But Trump led the way

Nothing!

Politicians have cost my great grandchildren TRILLIONS of dollars that their grandchildren will never be able to pay off!!

Quite possibly a job.

On the bright side....It has saved me about $3500 in childcare costs, $200 in tolls, $1000 in gas and given me over two months to spend with my kids.

Nothing!

Politicians have cost my great grandchildren TRILLIONS of dollars that their grandchildren will never be able to pay off!!

Lots of crying from a bunch of wussies on here!

To start with, my job.

I’m among the lucky ones, steady income such as it is, contract already signed for next year presuming there IS a regular school year next year. Rather than set aside funds just in case I’m continuing to hammer at debt.

It’s been cool to be able to spend hours outside most every mornings trying to stay in shape. March/April is the prettiest time of year here.

I’ve learned that long distance learning isn’t, not for most and not at the high school and below level. Long distance learning is about like home schooling and it can work IF you have parents on hand with the drive, skills and interest. Pretty rare commodities as it turns out.

My family has been in the seafood restaurant business since 1938 in Florida, so this China flu bs has hit close to home. I can agree that the government should of never handed out any money and just let the people ride it out. But I am glad nothings changed for you azzhole.

I missed watching my son walk the stage and receive his diploma and, today, will attend his wedding with the two sets of parents alone in the audience. That said, we will have his and his brothers friends here at the house for the reception. The smoker was running all day yesterday...

Only real tangible things were two trips. Our 40th anniversary in april to a beach getaway and a visit to her sister's, I wanted to take my niece fishing and buy her a new guitar since she has really taken it serious.

Kent