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It's easier to make stories about businesses than people, but I really think we need more people stories now. Rather than the flower trade having a downturn, w

It's easier to make stories about businesses than people, but I really think we need more people stories now. Rather than the flower trade having a downturn, what about all the people that planned weddings? A delayed wedding is apparently hardly a disaster, but what does it mean if nobody can get married for a half a year, what happens?

netsharc 7y ago
Huh? This story talks a lot of the people affected by this crash, from delayed weddings to Kenyan workers which will probably go hungry...
stronglikedan 7y ago
> people stories Well, my neighbor owns a flower shop, and she doesn't know if she'll make it. She was giving away the flowers to the neighbors for a while, so they wouldn't just go to waste, but I suppose she's run out now. She's dipped into her savings, but she's not sure how long that will last. Her bank screwed her over on the first round of PPE, so let's see what the second brings. She wonders why she can't open to serve customers curbside, like so many other businesses with questionable essential-ness can. Even then, who knows who would buy flowers, but a few customers are better than zero customers, I suppose. A people story.
- kzrdude 7y ago
  Thanks
7777fps 7y ago
Not much? I think in most jurisdictions it's possible to get legally married, just not be celebrated in the traditional way. So wedding celebrations have been delayed by 6 months or a year, well so what? It's such a small thing to focus on and worry about when almost the whole global economy has been put on pause. There's almost nothing that hasn't been affected, the inability to immediately celebrate in a traditional over-the-top way is of such a minor consequence in comparison.
- koheripbal 7y ago
  So what about all the weddings workers that cannot pay their mortgages now?
  - 7777fps 7y ago
    I'm not saying there's no effect I'm saying that weddings aren't special in that regard. That's just as easily (or not!) answered the same as: > So what about all the workers that cannot pay their mortgages now?
Fnoord 7y ago
Does it matter that people can(not) get married? It is just a contract and a festivity. If you plan for something big, and it gets cancelled, that does suck, but all kind of things get/got cancelled. There are much worse problems. People became and become homeless, unemployed, ill.
- zaroth 7y ago
  What a bizarrely callous calculus. Or course it matters. And the sum total of all that suffering, disruption, destruction is quite a lot to get your head around. Weddings canceled in the US leading to massive supply line disruptions, and ultimately, starving families in Africa. I think it all matters a bit. That you can think of a worse problem is hardly consoling.
emddudley 7y ago
Nothing happens. Wedding businesses will lose revenue in 2020. For everyone else it is just a bunch of delayed parties. In NYS Cuomo issued an Executive Order allowing people to obtain a marriage license remotely and allowing clerks to perform ceremonies via video conference.
- koheripbal 7y ago
  "lose revenue". Also known as financial disaster for most employees.

netsharc 7y ago

Huh? This story talks a lot of the people affected by this crash, from delayed weddings to Kenyan workers which will probably go hungry...

stronglikedan 7y ago

> people stories Well, my neighbor owns a flower shop, and she doesn't know if she'll make it. She was giving away the flowers to the neighbors for a while, so they wouldn't just go to waste, but I suppose she's run out now. She's dipped into her savings, but she's not sure how long that will last. Her bank screwed her over on the first round of PPE, so let's see what the second brings. She wonders why she can't open to serve customers curbside, like so many other businesses with questionable essential-ness can. Even then, who knows who would buy flowers, but a few customers are better than zero customers, I suppose. A people story.

kzrdude 7y ago
Thanks

7777fps 7y ago

Not much? I think in most jurisdictions it's possible to get legally married, just not be celebrated in the traditional way. So wedding celebrations have been delayed by 6 months or a year, well so what? It's such a small thing to focus on and worry about when almost the whole global economy has been put on pause. There's almost nothing that hasn't been affected, the inability to immediately celebrate in a traditional over-the-top way is of such a minor consequence in comparison.

koheripbal 7y ago
So what about all the weddings workers that cannot pay their mortgages now?
- 7777fps 7y ago
  I'm not saying there's no effect I'm saying that weddings aren't special in that regard. That's just as easily (or not!) answered the same as: > So what about all the workers that cannot pay their mortgages now?

Fnoord 7y ago

Does it matter that people can(not) get married? It is just a contract and a festivity. If you plan for something big, and it gets cancelled, that does suck, but all kind of things get/got cancelled. There are much worse problems. People became and become homeless, unemployed, ill.

zaroth 7y ago
What a bizarrely callous calculus. Or course it matters. And the sum total of all that suffering, disruption, destruction is quite a lot to get your head around. Weddings canceled in the US leading to massive supply line disruptions, and ultimately, starving families in Africa. I think it all matters a bit. That you can think of a worse problem is hardly consoling.

emddudley 7y ago

Nothing happens. Wedding businesses will lose revenue in 2020. For everyone else it is just a bunch of delayed parties. In NYS Cuomo issued an Executive Order allowing people to obtain a marriage license remotely and allowing clerks to perform ceremonies via video conference.

koheripbal 7y ago
"lose revenue". Also known as financial disaster for most employees.