Thanks, John.
The Norwegian parliament have passed some new bills to help people through the corona crisis. This means I'll be paid in full for the first 20 days of being laid off. Businesses will have the dates for VAT payments and other bills to the state delayed, but the economy will be hit REALLY hard. I am genuinely worried the brewery will have to close down. And even if it survives, a lot of our customers (bars/restaurants) are likely to go bankrupt, so we might be left without anyone to sell the majority of our beer to. The whole of the brewing industry has the same problem here at the moment. Most of us have been laid off. I just talked to a friend (drummer I used to play with) who works as a sales guy for a brewery we own 10 % of the shares in. He was just laid off too, and fears he'll be out of work in a few weeks. My brewery is in a fortunate position in that our two biggest shareholders are filthy rich, so we might be able to secure loans from them, but we'll struggle for months to come, even if the strict quarantine and closing of the bars only lasts for a short while.
I'm just glad I bought what I needed to make this guitar playable before the crisis hit.
Because it will be a long while until I can do anything like this again...
