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shadowkat1. List of Corona Virus Canceled, Postponed TV, Film, Events, Movies, Shows & Sports
They've basically cancelled or postponed all sporting events that would have happened between now and June. NHL, NBA, NCAA, The Masters Golf Tournament, have all been cancelled or postponed.
AMC announced today that they are reducing capacity in all theaters, by capping the number of tickets that can be bought. They are also thoroughly cleaning the bathrooms and external areas every hour, and the theaters themselves after every movie.
Television shows have suspended production or gone on hiatus. Fargo S4 suspended production. All Marvel Disney productions are suspended or postponed. All talk shows are being aired without a live studio audience. Riverdale suspended production when a crew member got exposed. The 100 and Supernatural have already suspended production.
The Tribeca Film cancelled.
2. I have received emails from various entities. New York Public Library System informed me that they were closing all their branches in Manhattan but I could access them online. The Brooklyn Library is remaining open but cancelling all events. (Most of the confirmed cases are in Manhattan.)
Also All Birds informed me that only their warehouses and delivery was still operational. (Shoe Franchise).
My church sent an email informing us that there would be no gatherings. They were closing the church except for the 12-step meetings, and only if the staff was still safe. All worship services and committee meetings would be held electronically over social media.
3. Stuck at Home? These Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours that you can take from your couch assuming of course you have internet access
4. All The Brooklyn Cancellations to Date
5. The Kensington/Windsor Terrace/Ditmas/Flatbush Neighborhood Group that I've joined has had people posting that if anyone who is elderly, incapacitated, lonely, or doesn't have supplies and requires help - to please contact them. This little act of kindness made my day. One woman posted that she was blind, by herself, lonely, and undergoing chemotherapy - and would appreciate assistance, if someone could provide a little help that would be great. Getting supplies etc. Two people popped up saying they would help.
In line at the grocery store, someone with a very full cart, jumped out of line, because she was waiting for another person to show up and felt it was unfair to take up the space. I thanked her for her kindness.
6. Struggling with the anxiety. To date there are over 613 cases in New York, and it is climbing daily. We went from 100 to 613 in the space of two weeks. There are 187 at last count in the city. NY now has more cases then all the other states. There are 2,951 cases in the US, with 613 of them in NY. However, NY right now is the only state with drive-through testing available as of Thursday of this past week. Expect more closures.
My mother is concerned about me getting it - since I am immune compromised (Type 2 Diabetes - recent diagnosis, not on anything yet), and high blood pressure (just went on new meds - which are sort of working). And I live alone with no family nearby. DS is nearby, but DS is over 70, and a breast cancer survivor. Wales is also nearby, but Wales is crazy.
And I've been a bit distant from church of late.
That said, I feel fine. Just trying not to give in to the panic. I'm going to stay home tomorrow and not go outside. I stayed home for the most part today. I do have to do laundry again -- which is stressful. Not the actual doing of the laundry, no.
Uhm. I have a shared laundry in a 77 unit apartment complex, with people from families, couples, college students, elderly, section 8, etc. To get to the laundry, you have to pull open an ancient elevator - right now there is only one working - the other one is being replaced and should be operational sometime in April. So the elevator we have is from the 1920s, you have to pull a lever to open it and then push to close. Then push the button. Then pull the lever again and jump out.
When I did it on Thursday, I had to take someone else's clothes out of the washing machines and dryer -- because they weren't good at timing it. (Took them two hours to return - I know, because I was done with the drying by the time they returned. And they weren't there when I got down there. Also their laundry was already done, just still in the machines. So possibly three hours?) Then I put my own in - only to realize I had to clean out the washer - because there was debris from the previous person's items. (I think they put dirty diapers in there. Folks? Either throw out the soiled cloth diaper or clean it in a "sink" not the washing machine.) There was also a dog bone.
Add to this - the elevator has a tendency to get stuck between floors. Or break down without warning. And, the only way to the laundry is either by elevator or going outside the building, around, and through a gate and through the side entrance to the basement -- which is usually locked.
So, whenever I do laundry - I feel as if I'm taking my life into my hands. My mother wants to send me surgical gloves so I can put the gloves on to do it. The trick is not touching your face. When I tell myself not to touch my face - my nose itches.
Also, do you have any idea the number of things I touch on a daily basis that a million others touch? The front door of the apartment complex, there's two of them, the punch in boxes at the supermarkets and pharmacies. The subway turnstile. The doors into the train station. The elevator button for work. I'm not touching railings if I can avoid it. The hand rails on the trains. The list is endless.
Oh and to add to all this? I work out of one of the major transportation hubs leading into NYC from JFK and Long Island - over 85,000 people travel through this hub per day.
Good news? They are cancelling and closing things, so ridership has dropped considerably. There's less people on the trains to worry about. I kind of hope they do close the schools because that would mean even less.
7. FB
* This idiot and his brother decided to clean out the shelves of hand sanitizer and then sell them at a profit in the urban areas. Man, has 17700 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sell them
Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.
The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.
Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them.
Meanwhile millions who really need them are searching in vain.
There's no such thing as good or evil people - just varying degrees of selfishness.
* Cousin: I'm beginning to think I should go out and buy a gun. I never owned a gun before. But in this environment, I'm starting to think I might need one.
* Friend of Cousin: I have loads of guns and I'm about to buy another one and more ammo.
* Other Friend: Just make sure you learn how to use it first.
So, you think this is a zombie apocalypse or something? Oh, I can't find supplies or I'm afraid of sick people - so what you will shoot them?
And everyone's fighting to close the NYC public schools - to protect the kids. (I'm not worried about the kids, they haven't been dying overseas or here. It's the people over fifty they are dying. Your kids are safer than the rest of us, folks.)
I'm more worried about a shortage in health care workers.
Ugh Facebook.
Meanwhile there's a lovely video with various residents of an Italian street, playing instruments out their windows to each other.
I need to stop obsessing about this. I've been following it since January, I think.
They've basically cancelled or postponed all sporting events that would have happened between now and June. NHL, NBA, NCAA, The Masters Golf Tournament, have all been cancelled or postponed.
AMC announced today that they are reducing capacity in all theaters, by capping the number of tickets that can be bought. They are also thoroughly cleaning the bathrooms and external areas every hour, and the theaters themselves after every movie.
Television shows have suspended production or gone on hiatus. Fargo S4 suspended production. All Marvel Disney productions are suspended or postponed. All talk shows are being aired without a live studio audience. Riverdale suspended production when a crew member got exposed. The 100 and Supernatural have already suspended production.
The Tribeca Film cancelled.
2. I have received emails from various entities. New York Public Library System informed me that they were closing all their branches in Manhattan but I could access them online. The Brooklyn Library is remaining open but cancelling all events. (Most of the confirmed cases are in Manhattan.)
Also All Birds informed me that only their warehouses and delivery was still operational. (Shoe Franchise).
My church sent an email informing us that there would be no gatherings. They were closing the church except for the 12-step meetings, and only if the staff was still safe. All worship services and committee meetings would be held electronically over social media.
3. Stuck at Home? These Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours that you can take from your couch assuming of course you have internet access
4. All The Brooklyn Cancellations to Date
5. The Kensington/Windsor Terrace/Ditmas/Flatbush Neighborhood Group that I've joined has had people posting that if anyone who is elderly, incapacitated, lonely, or doesn't have supplies and requires help - to please contact them. This little act of kindness made my day. One woman posted that she was blind, by herself, lonely, and undergoing chemotherapy - and would appreciate assistance, if someone could provide a little help that would be great. Getting supplies etc. Two people popped up saying they would help.
In line at the grocery store, someone with a very full cart, jumped out of line, because she was waiting for another person to show up and felt it was unfair to take up the space. I thanked her for her kindness.
6. Struggling with the anxiety. To date there are over 613 cases in New York, and it is climbing daily. We went from 100 to 613 in the space of two weeks. There are 187 at last count in the city. NY now has more cases then all the other states. There are 2,951 cases in the US, with 613 of them in NY. However, NY right now is the only state with drive-through testing available as of Thursday of this past week. Expect more closures.
My mother is concerned about me getting it - since I am immune compromised (Type 2 Diabetes - recent diagnosis, not on anything yet), and high blood pressure (just went on new meds - which are sort of working). And I live alone with no family nearby. DS is nearby, but DS is over 70, and a breast cancer survivor. Wales is also nearby, but Wales is crazy.
And I've been a bit distant from church of late.
That said, I feel fine. Just trying not to give in to the panic. I'm going to stay home tomorrow and not go outside. I stayed home for the most part today. I do have to do laundry again -- which is stressful. Not the actual doing of the laundry, no.
Uhm. I have a shared laundry in a 77 unit apartment complex, with people from families, couples, college students, elderly, section 8, etc. To get to the laundry, you have to pull open an ancient elevator - right now there is only one working - the other one is being replaced and should be operational sometime in April. So the elevator we have is from the 1920s, you have to pull a lever to open it and then push to close. Then push the button. Then pull the lever again and jump out.
When I did it on Thursday, I had to take someone else's clothes out of the washing machines and dryer -- because they weren't good at timing it. (Took them two hours to return - I know, because I was done with the drying by the time they returned. And they weren't there when I got down there. Also their laundry was already done, just still in the machines. So possibly three hours?) Then I put my own in - only to realize I had to clean out the washer - because there was debris from the previous person's items. (I think they put dirty diapers in there. Folks? Either throw out the soiled cloth diaper or clean it in a "sink" not the washing machine.) There was also a dog bone.
Add to this - the elevator has a tendency to get stuck between floors. Or break down without warning. And, the only way to the laundry is either by elevator or going outside the building, around, and through a gate and through the side entrance to the basement -- which is usually locked.
So, whenever I do laundry - I feel as if I'm taking my life into my hands. My mother wants to send me surgical gloves so I can put the gloves on to do it. The trick is not touching your face. When I tell myself not to touch my face - my nose itches.
Also, do you have any idea the number of things I touch on a daily basis that a million others touch? The front door of the apartment complex, there's two of them, the punch in boxes at the supermarkets and pharmacies. The subway turnstile. The doors into the train station. The elevator button for work. I'm not touching railings if I can avoid it. The hand rails on the trains. The list is endless.
Oh and to add to all this? I work out of one of the major transportation hubs leading into NYC from JFK and Long Island - over 85,000 people travel through this hub per day.
Good news? They are cancelling and closing things, so ridership has dropped considerably. There's less people on the trains to worry about. I kind of hope they do close the schools because that would mean even less.
7. FB
* This idiot and his brother decided to clean out the shelves of hand sanitizer and then sell them at a profit in the urban areas. Man, has 17700 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sell them
Matt Colvin stayed home near Chattanooga, preparing for pallets of even more wipes and sanitizer he had ordered, and starting to list them on Amazon. Mr. Colvin said he had posted 300 bottles of hand sanitizer and immediately sold them all for between $8 and $70 each, multiples higher than what he had bought them for. To him, “it was crazy money.” To many others, it was profiteering from a pandemic.
The next day, Amazon pulled his items and thousands of other listings for sanitizer, wipes and face masks. The company suspended some of the sellers behind the listings and warned many others that if they kept running up prices, they’d lose their accounts. EBay soon followed with even stricter measures, prohibiting any U.S. sales of masks or sanitizer.
Now, while millions of people across the country search in vain for hand sanitizer to protect themselves from the spread of the coronavirus, Mr. Colvin is sitting on 17,700 bottles of the stuff with little idea where to sell them.
Meanwhile millions who really need them are searching in vain.
There's no such thing as good or evil people - just varying degrees of selfishness.
* Cousin: I'm beginning to think I should go out and buy a gun. I never owned a gun before. But in this environment, I'm starting to think I might need one.
* Friend of Cousin: I have loads of guns and I'm about to buy another one and more ammo.
* Other Friend: Just make sure you learn how to use it first.
So, you think this is a zombie apocalypse or something? Oh, I can't find supplies or I'm afraid of sick people - so what you will shoot them?
And everyone's fighting to close the NYC public schools - to protect the kids. (I'm not worried about the kids, they haven't been dying overseas or here. It's the people over fifty they are dying. Your kids are safer than the rest of us, folks.)
I'm more worried about a shortage in health care workers.
Ugh Facebook.
Meanwhile there's a lovely video with various residents of an Italian street, playing instruments out their windows to each other.
I need to stop obsessing about this. I've been following it since January, I think.
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