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| 03-16-20 06:03pm - 1648 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Coronavirus up. Real news. The coronavirus precautions are now expanding. In my area (California), they are closing all bars, wineries and non-emergency dental services. Public libraries are closed until further notice. Public schools are closing. All seniors 65 and older, and people with chronic conditions are advised to self-isolate at home. Regal Theaters (movie theaters) nationwide are closed starting tomorrow until further notice. AMC Theatres announced on Monday that it will close all theaters nationwide for six to 12 weeks in response to the coronavirus pandemic. There are probably other closures and restrictions. But the US pandemic is getting serious treatment. In spite of what Trump said recently that the coronavirus will disappear by April. As a side note, the US stock market has been experiencing heavy losses, and is now at the lowest level since the start of the year. Edited on Mar 16, 2020, 11:32pm | |
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| 03-17-20 03:57am - 1648 days | #2 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
The US is being invaded from the North by Canadians. Read the news report below to see how Canadians are sneaking into California (and other parts of the US?). Homeland Security and the Border Patrol are armed with handguns and submachineguns, I assume. When will President Trump jump on their asses to get them to do their job of keeping America safe? ---------- ---------- Canadian boy gives iconic response to Disney park closure: 'Took a long trip to get here' In The Know Alex Lasker Mar 16th 2020 4:46PM An 8-year-old Canadian boy gave an instantly iconic response to a reporter during a segment on Disneyland’s recent closure over coronavirus concerns. Elias Sharf, an uncharacteristically sophisticated child who was just trying to visit Disneyland with his family, shared disappointment over his canceled plans with KTTV reporter Rick Lozano outside of the California park on March 13. “It’s closing for the whole month and we come from Canada. Took a long trip to get here,” a very calm Elias lamented, before sipping his Starbucks drink. The legendary interview went viral after Arash Markazi, a sports columnist at the Los Angeles Times, shared a clip of it on Twitter, calling it “the best thing I’ve seen today." “I’d like to think he took a drag of his cigarette a couple minutes later as he talked about missing out on ‘It’s a Small World,'” the columnist added. Naturally, the mature-beyond-his-years Elias was an instant hit among Twitter users. “lol he’s so sophisticated,” Naira Banks wrote. “I felt what he was saying when he took the sip,” another user wrote. “Outside of the hockey rink, this is the maddest any Canadian is capable of being,” joked another. “Nuclear-level mad. Livid. This is how Canucks absolutely f****** lose it. Murderous Canadian rage.” After the clip racked up over 5M views over just one weekend, Markazi got in touch with Elias’s father, Forrest Scharf, who seemed to be getting a kick out of his old-timey son’s newfound fame, and even said the youngster would like to meet with the writer one day. “If we come back to Southern California in the near future, I’ll get in touch,” he wrote. “Elias would enjoy meeting the person that got him in the spotlight.” | |
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| 03-17-20 10:33am - 1647 days | #3 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
TheWrap Cinema Stocks Drop Up to 31% as Coronavirus Shuts Theaters, Delays Releases Coronavirus Could Sink 2020 Box Office to Below $8 Billion for First Time in 20 Years by Jeremy Fuster | March 16, 2020 @ 3:57 PM “We still don’t know just how long theaters will have to remain closed, how many films this will affect,” Exhibitor Relations analyst Jeff Bock tells TheWrap There is no historical precedent for the financial drain that the coronavirus is about to do to the movie business, but multiple box office and financial analysts told TheWrap that the growing wave of theater closures and postponed film releases may sink 2020 domestic grosses to levels not seen since the turn of the 21st century. Domestic grosses for 2020 may well sink below $8 billion for the first time since 2000, analysts said, while admissions may fall below 1 billion tickets sold for the first time since 1976. This past weekend, overall grosses dropped 45% from the previous weekend, to $55.3 million, lower than even the box office weekends following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. To find a total that low, we have to go back all the way to Halloween weekend of 1998, when overall ticket sales fell to $50.8 million before inflation adjustment. With the postponement of “A Quiet Place Part II” and “Mulan,” two films that were expected to drive springtime moviegoing, those numbers are going to sink even lower even if some theaters manage to stay open. Others, however, said that trying to put any sort of estimates on how big the drop will be is a fool’s errand at this point. “We are still at the earliest stages of this slump, and we still don’t know just how long theaters will have to remain closed, how many films this will affect, or what studios will do whenever this all ends,” Exhibitor Relations analyst Jeff Bock said. “How could anyone try to make a prediction when the situation changes almost on an hourly basis?” The American movie theater industry tried longer than other countries to maintain a “business as usual” mantra. As recently as last Wednesday, theater owners and regional trade organizations were assuring the public that theaters would remain open. But as millions have been encouraged to stay home and local officials in major cities have begun forcing closures, their hand has been forced. On Sunday night, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered that all bars, nightclubs, and yes, movie theaters be closed for at least the remainder of March while restaurants will only be open for delivery and takeout. Then, after the Trump Administration recommended at a White House press conference on Monday that the public avoid gatherings of more than 10 people, Cineworld announced that all 543 Regal Cinemas locations in the U.S. would close indefinitely, joining countries across Europe and major Asian markets like China, where over 70,000 cinemas have remained dark since late January. Also Read: Cinema Stocks Drop Up to 31% as Coronavirus Shuts Theaters, Delays Releases For the theaters that haven’t received orders to close, seating capacity has been severely curtailed. After first reducing screening capacity by 50%, AMC Theaters announced early Monday that it would cap the number of tickets sold for each screening at 50, in keeping with the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control to prevent community spread of the virus. But now that Regal has made the first big move, other nationwide chains are expected to follow suit and announce they are closing soon. The CDC also recommends that this 50-person limit be enforced for at least the next eight weeks, a time period that extends to the first two weekends of May. That would likely force Disney to postpone the release of the Marvel Studios blockbuster “Black Widow,” a film that was supposed to kick off the summer moviegoing season, with an opening weekend topping $100 million. If health officials are correct in their prediction that social distancing will have to continue for two months or more, domestic grosses for the box office will sink below $8 billion while estimates of financial losses for the film industry will likely spiral well above $20 billion. Also Read: Regal, Showcase Cinemas Become First US Theater Chains to Close Nationwide Amid Coronavirus Crisis The Trump administration on Monday even suggested that the crisis could last into “July or August,” which would effectively shut down the entire summer blockbuster season for the first time in movie history. Dennis Carroll, former director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health Security and Development Unit, told USA Today that it is difficult to predict exactly how long the crisis will last as there is so little information known about the virus. Strong containment efforts in China and South Korea, the first countries to face outbreaks, have led to significant reductions in new cases over the past week, but those cases are still being reported. “By May we could be returning to some state of normalcy,” he said. “But, again, what we don’t know about this virus is epic. Holding a May date as a beacon of hope may soothe some of the angst but who knows?” And there’s a new wrinkle that even further complicates matters for theaters: day-and-date releasing. As streaming and video-on-demand have become more popular over the past decade, theater owners have resisted even the idea of theatrical releases hitting the home market before the long-sacrosanct three-month theatrical window. That standoff has prompted clashes with Netflix over Oscar-contending films like “Roma” and ‘The Irishman” that opened in select theaters but began streaming well before then. But as the coronavirus has thrown out all industry norms, Universal on Monday decided to pull the trigger on Monday and announce that while “Trolls World Tour” will be released to theaters on April 10 — assuming theaters are still open — the animated sequel will also be available for 48-hour digital home rental on the same day for a suggested price of $20. Universal is also cutting short the exclusive theatrical window of current releases like “The Invisible Man” and “The Hunt” with plans to put them up for digital rental as early as this Friday. Also Read: Universal to Release 'Trolls World Tour' for Digital Rental on Same Day as Theatrical Release “It can’t be a positive sign for any theater owner, regardless of the circumstances, that Universal decided to make this move so quickly,” Bock said. “‘Trolls World Tour’ wasn’t going to be a massive hit. The first film made less than $400 million (worldwide). But it wasn’t a small release either. It was going to be a strong draw for families. Not even Disney announced any streaming moves for ‘Mulan’ when they pulled it, so now it’s going to be interesting to see if any other studios see Universal’s move as a green light to try and go straight to home release with some of these spring blockbusters.” While it could simply be a temporary, extraordinary measure for extraordinary times, Universal’s video-on-demand move shows how coronavirus has so severely damaged an industry long viewed as recession-proof. The resiliency of movie theaters through the decades has been a point of pride for owners and mentioned in speeches by leaders like Motion Picture Association CEO/Chairman Charles Rivkin, who boasted of it in his keynote speech last year at CinemaCon — the annual industry convention whose 2020 edition was canceled just last week. “Since that first nickelodeon theater opened in Pittsburgh 114 years ago, we’ve been hearing about our demise for more than a century,” Rivkin said. “Through two world wars, the Depression, and calls for censorship and through new technologies — each one of them guaranteeing the end.” Also Read: Trump-Touted Coronavirus Testing Website Launches, But Still Not Available Nationwide While the immediate outlook looks bleak, movie theaters as a whole should survive this. Analysts expect a quick rebound to normal business and possibly even a boost for theaters in some regions as many Americans will be looking to finally get out of the house after weeks or months in isolation. But what the landscape of the industry will look like on the other side of this crisis is unclear. “My best guess is that this could permanently shrink the movie theater market in terms of locations that are open,” Bock said. “It’s no secret that the theatrical industry was already on thin ice, and this is the worst possible time for any of this to happen. They will have a hard time in the short term for them to convince people to come out the longer this goes. Theaters that were already having a hard time financially might not get back up from this.” “Larger chains like AMC and Regal might survive, but it may not make business sense for some theaters that go bankrupt because of this to be replaced. The days of having two different cineplexes across the street from each other or a few blocks apart may be over.” | |
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| 03-17-20 10:51am - 1647 days | #4 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
The Pentagon has tested less than 500 people, out of the 3.2 million people it employs. Way to go, President Trump. ------ ------ Pentagon has tested fewer than 500 for the coronavirus Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan Mar 17th 2020 12:22PM WASHINGTON — The Pentagon likes to call itself the nation’s largest employer, with 1.4 active men and women in uniform, roughly 1.1 million reservists and more than 700,000 civilian employees. But of all those employees, the Department of Defense has tested only 495 for the coronavirus, Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs, staff surgeon of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pentagon, said in a Monday morning press briefing, and little detail was available about where those tests had taken place. “We don’t have a breakdown of how many servicemembers vs family members vs DoD civilians, etc, nor do we have locational info for this,” s, Lt. Col. Christian Mitchell, a Pentagon spokesperson, told Yahoo News Monday in an email. A Pentagon official had previously testified that there were 13 laboratories testing members of the military and civilian Pentagon employees. In a Monday briefing for members of the press, Friedrichs and Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman revealed that 37 employees of the Pentagon have been infected. Just under half of them, or 18, are servicemembers. The other 19 are civilian employees. AdChoices Speaking last Thursday, Mitchell said that about 300 people at the Pentagon had been tested, though he cautioned the number was not exact. Friedrichs said on Monday that the 495 tests had been conducted as of Friday. It was not clear if any tests had been conducted over the weekend. A nurse holds swabs and test tube to test people for COVID-19 at a drive through station set up in the parking lot of the Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. on March 16, 2020. (Paul Sancya/AP)AP Another spokesperson for the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Carla Gleason, explained that the number of servicemembers and civilian Pentagon employees that had actually been tested was almost certainly higher, since nothing stipulated that they had to be tested at a Department of Defense facility. But until this week, civilian facilities for coronavirus tests were overwhelmed and underequipped, making it unlikely that a significant cohort from the Pentagon was tested at either state-run or commercial laboratories. Despite the low testing numbers, the Pentagon is taking the coronavirus threat seriously. Last Friday, it banned domestic travel for servicemembers. On Monday, defense secretary Mark Esper and his top deputy David Norquist were enjoined to keep a physical distance at all times, lest one of them fall sick with the coronavirus and imperil the nation’s military command. | |
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| 03-17-20 02:07pm - 1647 days | #5 | |
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tangub (0)
Active User  Posts: 132 Registered: Feb 03, '10 Location: UK |
I think we've all had enough of being bombarded with Corona Virus news 24/7 by the tv news channels and mainstream media without reading it here too. This is supposed to be a porn forum.  | |
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