As someone in CA live entertainment, watching an entire industry collapse and hoping it’s very, very temporary…
We all hope what we’re having to do is necessary, because it’s one hell of a sacrifice. But large gatherings ARE a good way for sickness to spread more rapidly than normal already, and especially on the theatrical side, a lot of our guests are definitely high risk for this one.
Nobody here wants to be the one in the history books for turning a bad situation critical. Things aren’t bad now, but they clearly can be. But understand that this isn’t something anyone took lightly. This is going to hurt all over the place, and especially the already fund-starved arts programs. I’m not sure what things will look like when this blows over, but it’s already a disaster from this point of view.
I’m just a hobbyist as far as singing goes, but if my group doesn’t cancel or postpone next Saturday’s concert, I’m not showing up. Sure, the audience would be about 200 or so, but that’s 200 plus a group of about 50. I’m hoping that showing up for rehearsal Tuesday night wasn’t a mistake.
And when all of the independent labs that trump prevented from offering tests start releasing results…
I hope Netflix, Skype and ISPs are up to the load they’re about to see. When people can’t get info or access to Friends episodes, that’s when they’ll really freak.
The misinformation is that Coronavirus jumped to humans via people in China eating bats, loaded down with implications and often outright claims of the Chinese being backwards, strange, brutal and inferior. Often specifically the claim that the Chinese habitually eat bats raw and alive and this practice has been responsible for all the worst diseases. I’ve heard both HIV and Ebola offered as examples.
In large part the rant rests on the implication that eating bats is strange, wrong and inherently dangerous. But if you can’t tell by your own link, it’s generally not. Pretty common, utterly normal in parts of the world. And fucking pigs have passed more diseases to us.
The specific connection is also mostly untrue. While Coronavirus may have jumped from humans via bats. The Chinese do not eat raw live bats. And the eating of bats in parts of China probably has no connection to Coronavirus.
This is part of the right wing push to brand foreigners as dangerous and a source of disease. Just like Trump stressing “foreign virus” over and over.
Serious question: was the billionaire dot-com veteran character on Silicon Valley (the one who made his money with “radio on the Internet”) based on Elon Musk?
I normally envy people that are outside, among the milieu, with enough stimulus to keep the right side contented while the left works. I am sorry I can’t help people in Ryu’s circumstances more, except by the only thing available to me: I’m actively social distancing, washing hands, sanitizing, etc.
After weeks of asking for a plan, and only after rising revolt from colleagues, my team was “approved” for telework by upward cascades of management. That decision had already been made by each of us worker bees privately, and we were only waiting for the moment to pull the trigger. It’s a win-win-win so far: management gets to keep the illusion of control, we get to work at home, folks like Ryu don’t need us physically crossing their paths.
We can live beside the ocean