Our part of Florida has been relatively calm, we have ben out boating for the past two weekends and biking most afternoon to maintain some sense of normalcy. I am afraid the boat launches will be closed soon because some people can't seem to understand how not to fill their boats to capacity. We live on the lake so my boat will remain in the water, but I am afraid we may loose our boating privilege soon because of these groups that are not taking this serious. We have to pick our days to get groceries, not out of mandate, most things are hard to find, so we have to go on days when we know there is a good chance of stock available. Not sure why people are going so nuts over things, I ask the staff at the few stores we frequent to get an idea of what nights or mornings they get certain products in and schedule my trips as early as possible on those days. My wife and I are both Louisiana natives and we both love to cook, so food is not an issue at our house. We are cooking crawfish Étouffée tonight, so we are suffering, lol. There is plenty to go around if people do not panic and just maintain their regular routines as best they can. My neighbor is a battalion chief for the local fire department and he gives me briefings every couple of days from their side of things. He says they are predicting the peak here in Florida around mid May. His biggest fear is the loss of life from those people who are not infected, but who have emergency medical situations that are normally not at major risk of death, but do to the strain on emergency/medical personnel and facilities, they may not be able to save them.
As far as business goes, I own a civil engineering firm and we do land development in central florida. My office is in Orlando which although considered an essential business and allowed to remain open, I elected to set everyone up to work from home so we could keep production moving in the event of a total shutdown and keep everyone safe. Pre-virus there was more work that we could handle. Now we are looking at a 60 day backlog of active work and the there is a blank slate. Lots of clients have things put on pause right now. I am not taking a salary currently and doing everything we can to keep our staff employed as long as we can. I am hopeful we can get through this soon if everyone takes this seriously. If this extends deep into the summer i am afraid it will crush most of us small business owners by then. Hoping and praying for everyone and their families to remain safe.