Corona virus has struck photography!

https://www.digitalcam​eraworld.com …ly-delayed-by-coronavirus

Interesting - not surprised. There will be supply chain disruptions to just about every aspect of modern society.

I imagine that all the cancelled sporting events are also gong to affect a lot of photographers.

Photography's total impact on the world is small.

Once schools have closed as a precaution, parents will need to take time off to care for the children at home. Some folks will need to deplete their paid sick time off. Some folks HAVE NO paid sick time off.

Productivity at companies will fall, due to staffing shortages for the production line, as well as due to supply-side shortages of parts and raw goods, and foreign produced products will decline as well.

We have only seen just the very tip of this iceburg!

Here in Ohio the governor just requested today that Spring vacation for schools will last three weeks.

Same thing has happened to Canon (which includes all world manufacturing) as the R5 has been delayed. Things have gotten pretty serious in the last few days.

digital paradise wrote in post #19025862
Same thing has happened to Canon (which includes all world manufacturing) as the R5 has been delayed. Things have gotten pretty serious in the last few days.

I hear you. The governor has banned all gatherings of 100 or more people and had a very informative and calming news conference yesterday. We are very impressed with the way our higher political officials have been handling this here. No panic, no hysteria, just hard facts as we know them, strong advice, and clear restrictions; so much better advice and presentation than other sources IMO.

My wife and I are avid volunteers at our local Metroparks System and today through end of the month all public facilities are closed. However they DO encourage us to go outside and enjoy all the trails and scenery with the benefit of that fresh air

We were in Portugal all of February and in London from March 1 to the 5th. We both still feel fine. We used a lot of hand sanitizer.

I’m a volunteer driver for our provinces cancer care program. We discussed my travels and they asked me to drive next Tuesday. That will be 12 days. As long as I still feel fine I’ll do it. There has always been a no touch policy. I will occasionally help an elderly person open the door and put a walker in the back of the van. I’ll wear gloves for that. As long as I’m not coughing or sneezing it should be OK otherwise I’ll cancel the gig. Both Portugal and England were not hot spots.

I mostly shoot sports, for fun and for the team and local paper. Probably not going to have anything to shoot this spring.

I live in Spain, where the situation has started to a) get more serious, and b) be taken more seriously. I was due to fly to the UK for a week this afternoon but won't be getting on the plane. It's sad for me personally - it will now be a few more months until I see my family, and a fun trip I had planned with a friend here now won't happen - but it's the responsible thing to do. My trip is important to me personally, but ultimately not necessary.

Owain Shaw wrote in post #19025951
I live in Spain, where the situation has started to a) get more serious, and b) be taken more seriously. I was due to fly to the UK for a week this afternoon but won't be getting on the plane. It's sad for me personally - it will now be a few more months until I see my family, and a fun trip I had planned with a friend here now won't happen - but it's the responsible thing to do. My trip is important to me personally, but ultimately not necessary.

When in Portugal we drove to Seville in 2017, 18 and 19. We didn't go this year not due to the virus. Been there too many times. Beautiful city. For our excursion we are planning to go to Barcelona next year.

I have to admit I'm glad we came home when we did. We have friends in Portugal who will be there until the last week of this month. Not sure how that will go for them. Hope all goes well for you.

Owain Shaw,
What happened, to change your plans?

1. Restrictions on flying to UK from countries on the continent
   
2. No flights available from Spain to UK due to flight cancellations
   
3. Personal precaution
   

Wilt wrote in post #19025515
Photography's total impact on the world is small.

Once schools have closed as a precaution, parents will need to take time off to care for the children at home. Some folks will need to deplete their paid sick time off. Some folks HAVE NO paid sick time off.

Productivity at companies will fall, due to staffing shortages for the production line, as well as due to supply-side shortages of parts and raw goods, and foreign produced products will decline as well.

We have only seen just the very tip of this iceburg!

In the SF Bay area, school closures have begun.

• All 90 (IIRC) parochial schools under the Archdiocese of San Francisco
  
• more and more public school districts around the Bay Area
  
• 2-yr colleges, 4-yr colleges and universities
  

• mother at home from work, who is not a professional educator, trying to oversee and guide and clarify information for her three grade school aged children...that is 9 hours of individual supervision, unless she has three gifted children who can spend time on the computer simultaneously
  
• -- assuming that they HAVE three computers, and internet service at home. Families close to the poverty line will not have that! And they cannot simply go to the public library...
  
• The added challenge is that even for a college graduate mother, the teaching techniques have CHANGED in the Core Curriculum system, so mothers have never seen a lot of this stuff...so she is UNABLE to help until after she spends time to puzzle over what is given to her student children!
  

Wilt wrote in post #19025999
In the case of elementary schools, and middle schools, school districts are stating that they want children to have 3 hours of instruction time each day, under the supervision of an adult. I cannot imagine a

• mother at home from work, who is not a professional educator, trying to oversee and guide and clarify information for her three grade school aged children...that is 9 hours of individual supervision, unless she has three gifted children who can spend time on the computer simultaneously
  
• -- assuming that they HAVE three computers, and internet service at home. Families close to the poverty line will not have that! And they cannot simply go to the public library...
  
• The added challenge is that even for a college graduate mother, the teaching techniques have CHANGED in the Core Curriculum system, so mothers have never seen a lot of this stuff...so she is UNABLE to help until after she spends time to puzzle over what is given to her student children!
  

Teachers will stay home, too. Maybe a teacher lives near this family and other families . . .

OhLook wrote in post #19026030
Teachers will stay home, too. Maybe a teacher lives near this family and other families . . .

Have you considered that it will be the teachers CREATING this home instruction?! So they will not necessarily have 'free time on their hands'