b1-66er: "The coronavirus is creating weird new business opportunities, from robots to anti-spitting hats"
"Amazon has removed more than a million products that claim to be effective against the coronavirus"
Special K: Broadway is closed! "Broadway theatres will go dark beginning 5 pm today."
b1: Right choice.
K: So far Playful People is not closed, but we're on the verge.
b1: "Because Broadway did. "
You're going to have to take up knitting.
K: Harry Potter and Hamilton in SF shut down too.
Harry Potter was trying to finesse it with smaller crowds, but they bailed on that today. Things are happening so fast.
b1: Close the world.
Stop the virus.
(SM)
K: I like it.
b1: It's actually a great tagline.
K: Yes.
b1: You can play it either way.
K: I see friends reporting how crazy busy Costco is. But the grocery stores I've been in have been normal. I wonder what's up.
b1: Survivalists.
"We need everything in quantity, where do we go?"
K: Yeah.
b1: I had an entire raft of sardines in my grocery cart last night...
And some 40 something sneered as he walked walked past...
"Man, I eat 6 things and have a compromised immune system. You have no idea. "
K: The sneering, I don't like them.
"It's no worse than the flu! It's the media!" Fuck 'em.
b1: You and I have fallen victims to them all our lives...
... the worst is when it's been me on you.
K: Eh, it's ok.*
XFL seems to be the only league standing.
b1: "Sponsored by Carona
It's not a virus.
It's a BEER."
K:
- NBA suspended indefinitely
- MLB suspended indefinitely
- NHL suspended indefinitely
- Big East Tournament canceled
- SEC Tournament canceled
- AAC To2/2 urnament canceled
- ACC Tournament canceled
- Big 10 Tournament canceled
- Pac-12 Tournament canceled
- MLS suspended 30 days
b1: CinemaCon canceled!
So, the Dear Hunter asked me a good Q.
Are they going to shut the casinos?
K:
How can they shut the casinos? How can they not?
b1: I think they have to.
And all those chips?
K: Chips seem like a good vector.
b1: I doubt washing them is the answer.
K: You couldn't wash them often enough.
b1: I hadn't even thought of the 'reuse' component!
K: Have the casinos ever closed?
b1: That's a good question.
I don't think so.
There's been disturbances that have shut some temporarily.
Like the MGM the night Tupak was shot.
K: March Madness canceled! That's gotta hurt LV.
b1: Yes.
K: All content on https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/coronavirus is now free.
b1: GREAT!
K: Yes.
More sites should do that.
b1: All information free.
Coronavirus free.
"Like the old days. "
K: Trump: ""You know, we need a little separation until such time as this goes away."
b1: Oh, IT will go away, all right.
You're not doing your job as watchdog...
I think Public Madness is officially 9/10.
K: Yes. It's a low-key panic.
b1: I have a degree in applied mathematics. I can say those kinds of things.
K: It's good that he said that, rather than ignoring it. Maybe people will come around.
DISNEYLAND IS CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!
"i think the impulse for many people is to look at things closing down or events cancelling right now as a sign of doom, but for the most part i think it's cause for optimism—someone in charge of something is taking this seriously, and doing what they can to limit interactions"
b1: AND REASONABLE K EMERGES FROM THE SWAMP!
*<ed- it's not. >
