So I’ve been in contact with a lot of different people over the past two weeks, employers, old roomates/acquaintances, people of the forums, etc. Basically everything I’ve heard is painting a pretty clear picture: shipping is down, vessel’s are being locked in port, reliefs are being pushed back or …

But, you’re also talking politics on your self-proclaimed thread about the COVfefe virus.

Can we all agree the virus sucks?

Also, I made one post pointing out the polls are unreliable before I asked if we can just talk industry and not politics. If you guys want to talk politics fine, but could you at least do it on a dedicated politics thread?

Back to the original post. I personally think things will get much worse from a financial perspective for quite some time. We are at the beginning. CEOs of major corporations are cutting back because they are losing money now and cannot plan for the future. Small businesses which employ about 45% of…

Honestly as long as things can open back up in 30-45 days I dont think it’s going to be as bad as expected, at least from what I see. I was filling in for a small company when wood prices where down and got cut over the slowdown but oh well :joy: right now believe it or not the orders for wood on a …

[image] tengineer1: Personally I did not believe this corona thing would be this bad at first Good thing you’re not under the scope of the Monday morning quarterbacks… Otherwise you’d be getting killed for your lack of crystal ball perfection.

Kudos to you for admitting your miscalculations of the severity of this crisis. You are not the only one. I noticed that many people quickly forget what they thought in the past & only think in the present. It’s very hard to speculate about the future if you can only remember the present IMO. I gue…

[image] Sand_Pebble: On Feb 24 on the “Coronavirus at Sea” thread you told me you thought this was only a hiccup while I was double lining my tin foil hat & stocking up on ninja swords & beef jerky. Daaaaaammnnnnn…a pick 6 for a Monday morning quarterback… But in fairness, at least he was wil…

Honest opinion, how bad do you think this is going to get?

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Shore April 17, 2020, 1:29am 50

I made this topic, you and the other guys talking politics are the ones taking it off base. If you want to talk politics, make a politics topic.

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Honest opinion, how bad do you think this is going to get?

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