COVID-19 2020

I'm able to resume leading my running group, as long as fewer than 50 people show up!

Hallelujah

779 new cases in MD+DC+VA
25 more deaths



Our region’s best numbers in about three months


Great news if you live in the area and want to keep doing so


Meanwhile Florida had over 3200 new cases yesterday

This is second hand information about Stage 3 in VA, but assuming it's true, might it be good news for the concert industry?

Phase 3 updates:

- Face coverings required

- 250 people at gatherings

- No cap on capacity at retail

- Entertainment venues may open at 50% capacity with a cap of 1000 people

- Gyms 75% capacity

- Child care open

Pools at 75%

Space wrote:
This is second hand information about Stage 3 in VA, but assuming it's true, might it be good news for the concert industry?

Phase 3 updates:

- Entertainment venues may open at 50% capacity with a cap of 1000 people

I mean it would be good for the State (didn't that close already?) and the Birchmere, but not so much for Jiffy Luberz or the Patriot Center.

Heilung4eva wrote:

Space wrote:
This is second hand information about Stage 3 in VA, but assuming it's true, might it be good news for the concert industry?

Phase 3 updates:

- Entertainment venues may open at 50% capacity with a cap of 1000 people

I mean it would be good for the State (didn't that close already?) and the Birchmere, but not so much for Jiffy Luberz or the Patriot Center.

At 50% capacity, they'd need to double their (already ridiculous in the case of Birchmere) ticket and drink prices. Maybe the Birchmere could take the tables out and that would allow them the increase capacity. But many of the geezers who see shows there probably can't stand up for two hours straight.

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I ate in a restaurant today.

maybe they can move Union Stage shows to Jammin Java temporarily?  8)

Justin wrote:
I ate in a restaurant today

RIP Mr. Toenation.  I call dibs on his Xbox.

Florida added 3207 new COVID-19 cases overnight.  New record


Gov Ron…this presser didn't age well
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1273666277098356738

Mayor Muriel Bowser
@MayorBowser
1/ Today, I'm announcing Phase Two will begin on Monday, June 22, 2020, allowing certain businesses to reopen and activities to resume under specified conditions outlined at http://coronavirus.dc.gov/phasetwo.

https://coronavirus.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/coronavirus/page_content/attachments/06172020_DC_Health_Guidance_Mass_Gatherings_JIC%20Reviewed.bcedit.pdf


“If shouting or singing is involved…”

“an absolute moron..”



Good way to describe our President and most Republicans

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/503531-schwarzenegger-anyone-making-coronavirus-masks-a-political?fbclid=IwAR30bcWJyjYLwGcpOjrrRNsDVT6VyyqxwoyCbgkCNxwoI92SO4QgQtXGBtM

so do we start a death pool for AMC theaters?

AMC Theater CEO Adam Aron says their cinemas won't require masks upon reopening because they didn't "want to be drawn into a political controversy"

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/amc-coronavirus-movie-theaters-covid-19-1234642047/

i feel sorry for their social media team…

Old wrote:
Florida added 3207 new COVID-19 cases overnight.  New record


Gov Ron…this presser didn't age well
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1273666277098356738

This week on ‘Blame the immigrants’-
Florida Governor blames “overwhelmingly Hispanic Laborers” for the spike in COVID19 cases…
https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/desantis-blames-covid-spike-on-overwhelmingly-hispanic-laborers/

Makes me angry

kosmo wrote:
so do we start a death pool for AMC theaters?

AMC Theater CEO Adam Aron says their cinemas won't require masks upon reopening because they didn't "want to be drawn into a political controversy"

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/amc-coronavirus-movie-theaters-covid-19-1234642047/

i feel sorry for their social media team…

AMC is already in serious financial trouble thanks to the pandemic.  there has been talk of their bankruptcy for weeks now.  they may well have nailed shut their own coffin with this.

“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up,” said Siouxsie Wiles, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand

kosmo wrote:
so do we start a death pool for AMC theaters?

AMC Theater CEO Adam Aron says their cinemas won't require masks upon reopening because they didn't "want to be drawn into a political controversy"

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/amc-coronavirus-movie-theaters-covid-19-1234642047/

i feel sorry for their social media team…

AMC Theaters on Friday reversed course and announced it will require guests to wear masks. The movie theater chain’s president had drawn backlash a day earlier for saying moviegoers wouldn’t be mandated to wear masks because “we did not want to be drawn into a political controversy.”

Anybody have any mask recommendations? Looking for something extra safe and comfortable for part time school in the Fall….