Posted on 04/28/2020 5:06:22 PM PDT by EdnaMode
In an announcement today, California Gov. Gavin Newsom deemed movie theaters to be part of a stage 3 opening in the ultimate four-prong easing of COVID-19 at-home restrictions, meaning they’d be able to open “months, not weeks” in the future.
Movie theaters would be part of phase of higher risk workplaces which require a close proximity to other people, including hair salons, nail salons, gyms, sporting events with live audiences and in-person religious services like churches and weddings.
Movie theaters were allowed to reopen in Georgia on Monday and Texas is permitting cinemas to reopen on May 1, but the major chains are waiting until late June and July, particularly the latter month, when studios begin to book movies in theaters. All eyes and hopes are on July 17 when Warner Bros. plans to open Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and July 24 when Disney will debut Mulan.
Newsom also said schools could start as early as the end of July or beginning of August due to “learning losses.” Schools could reopen under staggered dates. They were part of Stage 2 considered to be lower risk workplaces, and included on a list that has childcare facilities, non-essential manufacturing (like furniture, toys), retail business with curbside pickup, and offices where working remotely isn’t possible.
The statewide “Stay at Home” order would be lifted in Stage 4, allowing for concerts, conventions and sporting events with crowds. This phase would require a vaccine or population-level immunity from COVID-19.
Said Newsom, “I want to caution everybody, if we pull back too quickly and we walk away from our incredible commitment to not only bend this curve but to stop the spread and suppress the spread of this virus, it could start a second wave that could be even more damaging than the first and undo all of the good work and progress that you’ve made…The virus has not gone away. It’s virulence is still as acute. Its ability to be transmitted still is dominant. We by no stretch are out of the woods.”
“The virus is as transmittable as it’s ever been…It is ubiquitous, it is invisible, and it remains deadly. Ask the 45 families who lost a loved one in the last 48 hours,” he said.
Despite the uber-warm spell SoCal has been having with temperatures in the 80s to low 90s over the last few days, Newsom reminded, “This virus doesn’t take the weekends off.’ This virus doesn’t go home because it’s a beautiful sunny day around our coasts.”
Open the damn restaurants.
just as I was about to post this, Tucker is mentioning it on his program:
25 Apr: The Atlantic: Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.
by Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School professor & Andrew Keane Woods, Professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law
Today, the platforms are proudly collaborating with one another, and following government guidance, to censor harmful information related to the coronavirus. And they are using their prodigious data-collection capacities, in coordination with federal and state governments, to improve contact tracing, quarantine enforcement, and other health measures. As Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg recently boasted, “The world has faced pandemics before, but this time we have a new superpower: the ability to gather and share data for good.”...
As surprising as it may sound, digital surveillance and speech control in the United States already show many similarities to what one finds in authoritarian states such as China...
In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong. Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/
Everything will go underground....and without taxes.
Ok Gruesome. Who loses most from movie theatre shutdowns?
Hollywood.
Where is Hollywood at?
California.
He can close theatres in California for another 10 years for all I care.
*SMIRK*
The tech giants are not as powerful as they think they are.
For example, I have never used Facebook in my life. I am just a private person
I watch news clips and conservative commentators on YouTube, but everyone of them can be watched elsewhere. I use Firefox. I use a firewall and VPN, etc etc.
Haha...good one
Hollywood makes the bulk of it’s money from China of all places.
Yep - the world would be much better off without the narcissistic and wealthy “stars” who populate Hollywood. Go, Gavin, go! Close them forever!
Kneecap one of your state’s major industries. Sounds about right.
King Gavin I and the other Endless Shutdown dictators are going to keep it up until there’s nothing left of the deplorable kulaks, and rule over the ruins.
The statewide “Stay at Home” order would be lifted in Stage 4, allowing for concerts, conventions and sporting events with crowds. This phase would require a vaccine or population-level immunity from COVID-19.
Said Newsom, “I want to caution everybody, if we pull back too quickly and we walk away from our incredible commitment to not only bend this curve but to stop the spread and suppress the spread of this virus,
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Governor Gavin... What if it takes 10 years to get the vaccine? Or if scientists cannot develop a vaccine?
After all, there is no vaccine for AIDS.
I guess fans may not go to Dodger Stadium as long as Governor Gavin is in charge...No vaccine no baseball...
Herd immunity? How is that possible if Californians are forced to stay home...
Suppress the spread? Did he say that at the beginning?
I cannot listen to him for too long...I get too annoyed...
When he talks about weeks, he could mean 15 weeks or 52 weeks...Who knows? I still don’t see the light at the end of tunnel in California...
The Atlantic writers - both connected to Lawfare!
Wikipedia: Jack Goldsmith
In addition to being a professor at Harvard, Goldsmith is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
***He is a co-founder of the Lawfare Blog along with Brookings fellow Benjamin Wittes and Texas Law professor Robert M. Chesney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Goldsmith
loads of stuff by Woods on their website:
18 Oct 2019: Lawfare Blog: China and the Hypocrisy of American Speech Imperialism
By Andrew Keane Woods
(Andrew Keane Woods is a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law. Before that, he was a postdoctoral cybersecurity fellow at Stanford University. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar)
There is no easy answer to the very difficult question of if or how American firms should do business in China. But, unfortunately, resolving this question is made harder because the debate is marred by a general lack of analytical clarity and is instead being driven by uninformed moral outrage, free speech absolutism, and American exceptionalism...
The first problem is the sheer hypocrisy of those most loudly critical of American firms self-censoring in order to appease the Chinese government...
Another distasteful and unconstructive thread running through the current debate is America’s moral superiority because of its robust speech rights. At the core of the argument that U.S. firms should not do business in China—or if they do, they should somehow not comply with Chinese rules—is an argument about China’s speech constraints and, therefore, its moral inferiority. But, as I’ve said before, evaluating China along welfare or human rights grounds is not so simple. Speech rights are much less robust than in the West, to be sure, but China has shown extraordinary concern—and done more than any other country—for its poor...
https://www.lawfareblog.com/china-and-hypocrisy-american-speech-imperialism
China created the virus so they could have world domination and it looks like its working..we have people in America who cheer for communism, for America to become China..the same ones who screamed about RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA want America to become like China, say something they dont like, you end up in prison in work camps
Heck there isn’t even a reliable vaccine for the FLU..every flu season the strain is different, that is why its only about 30 percent effective. There are many different strains of coronavirus, there will NEVER be a vaccine that works for 100 percent of the virus, so what Newsom is saying is that we have to stay in our homes forever, til they find our rotting corpses in our beds
in 60 years the movies I went to see were 100% full 2 times. They were 10% full 20-30 times 3% full the rest.
Amen to that.
Almost all the movies I watch these days are from the greatest generation. Audi Murphy, Jimmy Steward, The Duke, Clarke Gable etc.
Not much time for the narcissistic creeps that occupy Hollywood right now.
Don’t tell Rush or Mark Levin but podcasting that night rather during the live shows takes me from 3 hours down to 90 minutes on my time schedule not theirs, same with Red Eye Radio, 3 hours = 90 minutes without the breaks.
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