This an awesome illustrated Corona diary:
ETA
First edition has sold out.
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I guess my thinking is, how long would billions last them if this goes on well into next year? When all the rent comes due for millions of Americans who havenât paid for months, itâs going to be a triage situation. I am not sure I could support billions for the theaters when we could be looking at a homelessness apocalypse.
Of course we will have theaters and concerts eventually, but maybe we should direct the money toward things that will destabilize our whole nation first.
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My sense is that that there are a few things going on:
- Individuals arenât getting a bailout, so why should a non-essential business (of course, lots of non-essential businesses are getting bailouts).
- Movie theaters have traded most of their goodwill for popcorn prices.
- Live music venues are associated with ârich rock starsâ, and assumed to be rich themselves, not struggling to get by week-to-week, as most actually are.
I donât think thatâs a safe bet, and if it happens, it will likely be Ticketmaster buying one venue in every other city and that being pretty much it.
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You forgot to mention how large movie theater chains and major studios have screwed over family owned, small town theaters with recent moves for the past few months thus creating a lot of uncertainty in that market.
I would not be shocked if theater chains do go belly up; mall operators (in the ones that remain after this wreck of an economy) wonât even try to bring theaters back into those empty spaces and will put something else in there instead like a sports complex, large higher end arcades or possibly even casinos if certain states would allow it.
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Less weird more homicidal.
A presidential crimes commission is warranted if Biden pulls this off.
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Less homicidal than genocidal.
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This has been brewing for a long time but reopening the campus was apparently the last straw:
One of NCâs largest public universitiesâ faculty senate has put forward a vote of no confidence against the chancellor for, among many other things, reopening the school in person putting tens of thousands of students and staff at risk http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/08/13/app-state-faculty-senate-to-hold-no-confidence-vote-on-chancellor-as-pandemic-opening-concerns-mount/
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Effects about the same as digoxin, except for the fact that the therapeutic window is even narrower?
And even for digoxinâs primary target (CHF) isnât current practice to resuscitate with furosemide+nitroglycerin (plus NIPPV with or without supplemental oxygen as needed), and for maintenance prescribe lisinopril+metoprolol+spironolactone? Add or substitute losartan for the ACE inhibitor? And then hydralazine/isosorbide dinitrate?
With digoxin only a last-resort measure, possibly useful in refractory hypotension with A-fib but which doesnât prolong life much if at all?
And oleandrin is just the same ⌠only less safe. Wow.
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Well, I donât know why this is breaking news, because everyone saw this coming.
âUNC-Chapel Hill pivots to remote teaching after coronavirus spreads among students during first week of class - The Washington Postâ
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FHA Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record, Led by New Jersey
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Speaking of which - I was talking with some co-workers today, lamenting the fact that our schools arenât looking more into outdoor classrooms (or open air, whatever) like they did in the early 1900âs. There was a cool story about it in the NYT a couple weeks ago.
They both have school-aged kids and very quickly set me straight that there was NO WAY the schools were going to move outside, especially after they had recently invested so much money to be prepared for an active shooter scenario.
So the fact that weâve let the gun issue go unaddressed for so long now leaves us unable to use one of the easiest and most proven solutions to safely school the nationâs children in the midst of a pandemic.
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UNC will be entirely online, after a week of trying face-to-face instruction:
I assume Appalachian State will eventually follow.
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I certainly hope so
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Because he did such a fucking brilliant job.
Remember, when De Blasio finally decided to close the schoolsâŚCuomo overrode him! Iâm sure there will be a mea culpa in the book.
âNot as bad as Trumpâ is a reasonable thing to promote if you are running against him, but otherwise not sufficient to keep you from being fired from, say, your dishwashing job.
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Itâs like the pool of characters in Harry Potter who can say âAt least Iâm not as bad as Voldemort.â
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