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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 36
The pandemic has been scrubbed from the front pages at this point and replaced by a different hysteria du jour, but the semi-open posts I've hosted here on the Covid-19 narrative, the inadequately tested experimental drugs for it, and the whole cascading mess surrounding them have continued to field a steady stream of comments, so I'm opening yet another space for discussion. The rules are the same as before: 1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, as the vaccinated keep catching Covid (and many of them never quite seem to get over it) while the rest of us are fine, the floor is open for discussion.
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(Anonymous) 2022-04-18 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)I suspect Broadway is doomed, for multiple reasons.
One, Broadway relied in no small part on tourists, and tourism is down and unlikely to recover. Most people are aware that NYC went mandate-mad, and also that crime is on the rise, plus, with inflation, people have less disposable income. There are other, cheaper places to spend one's limited entertainment dollars besides expensive, covid-crazy, crime-infested blue cities like NY. I don't see NYC's tourism industry recovering - and that applies both to tourists from other parts of the US and abroad, as well as to day-trippers from the surrounding areas.
Two, Broadway also relied in part on corporate ticket purchases. A lot of people aren't aware of this, but large NYC-based corporations used to buy tickets to Broadway shows for the purpose of entertaining important clients and out-of-town visitors. Given the changes in work arrangements and NYC's extremely high office vacancy rates, this market is also unlikely to recover.
Three, NYC is losing residents, including people who might have been able to afford Broadway shows, and who might have taken out-of-town visitors to a Broadway show. If you moved out of a covid-crazy city for greener pastures, you are probably not going to come back to attend an over-priced Broadway show in a mask. Buh-bye.
I have sympathy for some of the workers - Broadway supported a whole ecosystem of behind-the-scenes employment, including both manual labor and service workers - but what's done is done. NYC shot itself in both feet, and neither Broadway no much else of the city is likely to ever recover.