if you open x-thing but people are still mostly distancing or other things near arent open, then that business is not doing much money and bleeding it staying open.
Yeah, that's exactly the boat we're in. In Australia, we've closed pubs, restaurants and cafés except for takeaway/delivery, and gyms, massage places, beauty places, cinemas... basically anything where people gather. Everything that hasn't been specifically mentioned is an 'essential service,' so that's us. But with so many of our clients having shut down or being just as affected as we are and hence not ordering print, we've got fuck-all coming in. Also nobody's ordering business cards right now. FUNNY, THAT.
We're due to have some announcement re opening up tomorrow, so if we're going backwards from when we shut things down, I thiiiink that'll mean weddings and funerals are allowed more than 5 people again? Then the businesses that have been closed. Sport goes in there somewhere. Then eventually groups of under 100 people, groups of under 500 people, interstate travel... and we're done. Realistically we're not getting international travel again until there's a vaccine, except potentially the Trans-Tasman Bubble we're talking about cos the Kiwis are just as chill as we are. But yeah. At least we're in a position where reopening is realistic.
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Date: Thu, May. 7th, 2020 09:51 am (UTC)Yeah, that's exactly the boat we're in. In Australia, we've closed pubs, restaurants and cafés except for takeaway/delivery, and gyms, massage places, beauty places, cinemas... basically anything where people gather. Everything that hasn't been specifically mentioned is an 'essential service,' so that's us. But with so many of our clients having shut down or being just as affected as we are and hence not ordering print, we've got fuck-all coming in. Also nobody's ordering business cards right now. FUNNY, THAT.
We're due to have some announcement re opening up tomorrow, so if we're going backwards from when we shut things down, I thiiiink that'll mean weddings and funerals are allowed more than 5 people again? Then the businesses that have been closed. Sport goes in there somewhere. Then eventually groups of under 100 people, groups of under 500 people, interstate travel... and we're done. Realistically we're not getting international travel again until there's a vaccine, except potentially the Trans-Tasman Bubble we're talking about cos the Kiwis are just as chill as we are. But yeah. At least we're in a position where reopening is realistic.