Did we talk about Felicity Jane not having a kit this month.

I know Hip Kits for February wasn’t all in and had thought it would be by now. I haven’t gotten mine and not expecting it for quite some time.

Tonic Studios is delaying their kit until May. They’re not sure everything will be in even for an April. As an apology for the two month delay, they will be sending a Tonic Craft apron with the kit when it ships.

warehouse of requirement - that’s perfect!

Gotta give you a double thumbs up for your positivism but oh my, no, it is about to propagate internationally. We're nowhere near having this under control. It's going to be a major mess for the many countries unprepared for such an emergency. The best we can hope for now is transparency from the other epicentres like Italy in Europe right now. But it's looking bad for some places including Africa and several spots in the Middle-East. Those contamination numbers from Iran are nowhere near reality considering the death toll they're announcing. Buckle up, everyone.

I don't care much about scrapbook kit clubs and/or companies delaying releases and kits although it stinks for the independent brands. We're on the brink of a pandemic of a virus (per the WHO, not the cuckoo hysteria media) we know far too little about, have zero herd immunity against, with scientifics fearing possible mutations. And I'm not giving away to panic. I've just been following the developing story since the WHO announced the discovery on January 9th if my memory-keeping is correct ("How a scrapbooking project has helped me keep track of a new virus"  ). 

The petrol industry has taken big hit upon big hit since mid-January and is the most severely affected so far. I'm sure the crafts industry will do just fine and we'll rush to get the Chinese imports for our favourite new collections. People look at this from their own perspective but forget that sending all the Chinese back to work (for us) would put them at great risk be it manufacturing stuff, packing products, loading cargo ships, etc. I'm grateful so many have been obeying the harsh confinement rules so far (and accepting the financial toll it has taken on their earnings). The French wouldn't have put up with this, lemme tell you (and we've just officially been told to start preparing for possible confinement zones, oy vey, we're gonna come for Marie-Antoinette's head again). 

Eh, I'm about to promote Lucien Greaves coming to speak in Provo, UT in the BH thread... Don't worry about popularity!    (mind you, yes, we do avoid 100% political discussions on this side of the board although some of it steeps in and leaves an imprint, especially in the more controversial scrappy topics)

yea, it will get political if I expand on that topic so not here.

Let’s just say I expect when it gets here the US will be *the* problem not other countries, it will be the US lack of cooperation & transparency that will be an issue.

1 ‘we’ are a bunch of know it all’s, even when ‘we’ don’t know ‘we’ think we know best. From the government on down to the citizens who ‘knows best’ what they should/can do.
2 what has been transparent & truthful from the US lately?
3 lack of belief in facts & science combined with me me me culture I do not expect voluntary cooperation from a significant portion of our citizenry even if our government does get it right.

And I’ll stop there before it gets full on political

They wouldn’t have this issue if they worked and ordered stock more than one month in advance.

Chinese New Year means the factories in China halt production for about four weeks in late Jan early Feb so the workers can go home and celebrate with their families. The coronavirus has meant that those factories have stayed closed longer than usual.

Just surprises me that they don’t order stock further in advance to avoid situations like this. That’s a month that they will have to go without any revenue now.