RE: #Caturday and A Little Emotional Outpouring
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This is so true and I feel similar @princessmewmew for me, one of my income streams is my little cottage I let through Airbnb. Since the shutdown ALL my guests have cancelled and since I am not technically an 'employee' I will get NO money from our governement to make up for the thousands of lost wages through the Summer. I can manage it, barely, as I still have to pay the taxes, utilites, and repairs on the house even though it sits empty. However many people use airbnb as their MAIN income, even living in thehouses they rent out to HELP them buy food and pay the mortgage, I don't know what will happen to them!
I also think of all the young people early 20s who work in our retail , as al lthe big chains are shutting and they have to apply for unemployement, and because SO many are doing it at once many have to wait and wait and many people live from week to week, so I don't know what will happen.
It is an odd time but we must all keep our chins up and try our best, looking at cats is a good way ;) For me it has been going all out with enlarging my Veg garden, starting way more plants then I need and playing with my chicks and quail. I hope we have a Good world at the other end of this.
We're all officially shut until 4 May, but there is talk of it going on through Summer! Heavens...
oh wow! that is intense! My husband and I have been wanting to buy a property for years, but have never found the one, or even just one that we can afford, and I always wondered if something was holding us back, or even protecting us, and I think I know now why we had such bad luck with this
It's going to be crazy here too, especially in my city where most households have a direct income stream from hospitality and tourism.
Our lockdown has been extended as well, until the 1st of May.
I do think we are lucky to have had forewarning though, I think about the World Wars and similar and some had to flee into hiding and others who were free had to make do with what was available, which was not much.
Honestly, I am quite happy at home and am not as affected as a lot of others are, but of course I am nervous about our future economy and others around me