Sometimes I get the feeling that there are a great many Americans wandering around just looking for some to âstick itâ to in order to feel powerful or important.
Not news as such, but detailed timeline.
Waiter! I can see a virus on my fork!
I really wish that toxic masculinity was a thing of past already. This kind of guys become even more aggressive when they are told no by women or non-binary people. I had to quit my former work, due to a coworker who started harassing after I refused to work for his private company for free. He was almost perfectly stereotypical alpha male.
This is a bad, bad message. One, we should still be staying home. Two⌠maybe check with mental health professionals who specialize in PTSD before telling people to be on alert against something they canât fucking see but can kill them. Hypervigilance is bad. There are many, many ways this can go wrong (up to and including violence).
tl;dr; About 1% overall.
Perhaps not a hugely useful measure given how radically differently it affects different age cohorts, but if we do flatten the curve (i.e. donât overwhelm our health system) but donât get a vaccine before full infection, I guess the âgood newsâ is that our losses should top out around 300,000 in the US. Whee! Hey, 1/5 of the way there already! Or a lot closer, if we count excess mortality. In three months. If the curve stays flat (i.e. infections per day stay steady from here on out) then weâll be at full infection in another year, while the vaccine might be ready in 18 months.
Thanks @tekna2007, I didnât math so good.
One percent of 300 million would of course be 3 million. So if we kept flat we might only lose 360,000 people before the a vaccine is developed. Victory! Open all the things! Sigh.
Yeah, itâs good to see the other nations not following the tory party line but that just leaves a muddled message for everyone when we really should be on the same page with this.The idiocy of people though knows no boundaries it seemsâŚ
Hmm. That might work, especially with a captive market. A neo-retro experience.
- Pay by phone/credit card, no cash.
- Double-space the parking spots, with stay-in-cars rules enforced.
- Pop and popcorn ordered by app/web page, and delivered to cars with carts. Drop and dash. (Scan the plates once everyone is parked, or request phone GPS?)
- Washrooms would be a problem. (Donât run long double features!)
- Probably no new releases, but movies that were in theaters when lockdown happened might be available.
Looks like you got it covered. ALL of it! 
Free empty Gatorade bottles as you drive in.
Then just put them right back on the shelf!
(Always did think that stuff tastes pissy.)
Nearly 
Just add the dust proof hood, and it would be perfect:
I suspect it could scare people thoughâŚ
Would help with the social distancing. Win-win!
I think nearly two months ago, a German journalists wrote on the culture pages of a larger newspaper about drive-in theatres. Also mentioning that two would be on sale, right now, in the US. With local UHF wave tech. Wondering if this would be an opportunity, given the danger of a pandemic.
Two fucking months ago.
