COVID-19

[Drunk Monk]

Figured I might as well start a thread here.  I've had a thread going on KFM since January. I've posted several news items there every working day since - http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/show...-Pneumonia

Then we walked up Market to Chinatown, which is a ghost town now. Covid-19 has chased all the tourists away.  Shops are shuttered.  I've never seen it so empty.  We got lunch at House of Nanking which was about a third full, when typically there's a line at lunch time.  I fear for the fate of Chinatown.  

Have a great day before the covid-19 strikes you!

Too late. It's already struck hard.  My company is on the front lines.  

We get almost all our merch from PRC (some from Vietnam now too).  It's been catastrophic.  All of PRC shuts down for Chinese New Year, so we order ahead to buffer against their downtime like every company that imports from PRC.  But our container was detained due to the high alert.  This delayed our subscription fulfillment, and this issue had a premium, so that really hurt.  Fortunately, our subscribers have been very understanding, but I've been fielding complaints, well queries really, all week.  And now the factories aren't starting up.  The real impact is hitting now.  This is on top of the trade war inflation.  It's bad.  Very very bad.  Not bankruptcy bad, but some serious loin girding bad.

In more COVID-19 news (maybe this needs its own thread) I just got messaged by one of the Berkeley Chinese Martial Arts Tournament organizers.  The event was scheduled in two weeks and they just decided to cancel.  CMAT is one of the longest-standing Chinese tournaments in the nation.  I competed in it back in the day.  Maybe the cfs did too?

I think tomorrow might be a coronavirus quarantine survival kit prep day.