On a Friday, Tyler Blackwell, a 27-year-old digital imaging technician, wasn’t expecting to get a text that he couldn’t come to work the following week.
The four-day commercial that Blackwell was slated to start working on March 11 got canceled due to coronavirus precautions.
“I would like to say that it blindsided me. But I think I was just being more hopeful that it wasn’t going to have as much of an impact as it has proven to have been,” he said.
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