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| re: A great NY Times column by Laura Collins-Hughes "Where is Hollywood when Broadway needs it?" | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 06:32 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 06:29 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| In reply to: A great NY Times column by Laura Collins-Hughes "Where is Hollywood when Broadway needs it?" - Billhaven 01:47 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| Leadership needed to come from the administration before the pandemic got out of control. If Clinton had been elected and was given the information in January that Trump had, I would like to believe the whole pandemic could have been handled. A short lockdown of 3 weeks, followed by a consistent masking, social distancing, hand washing message, could have contained the virus and kept deaths at a much lower level. Hell, Japan did it, so did Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and others. Then the film and TV stars would have come forward to do their bit. The deep political divisions in the country are very disturbing and are so counterproductive. I'm still concerned that enough people will refuse vaccination and we won't be able to reach herd immunity. Fauci has said we need 70 to 90%. If the magic number is 70%, it's probably doable. But what if the new strains cause the vaccines to be a little less effective and 90% is needed? That could be a huge challenge. |
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| re: A great NY Times column by Laura Collins-Hughes "Where is Hollywood when Broadway needs it?" | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 07:01 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| In reply to: re: A great NY Times column by Laura Collins-Hughes "Where is Hollywood when Broadway needs it?" - BroadwayTonyJ 06:29 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| I think it was very clear from the beginning that the previous administration had NO INTEREST in the arts even before the crisis. They were not going to take the lead. The article faults the huge amount of creativity and capital in the film and television world that could have rallied to the cause of artists across the country. Regional theater, off Broadway and arts training have been the life blood of film and television for decades. Half the television writers and show runners began as off and off off broadway playwrights. These theaters and training program have been the "farm teams' supplying the major talent. | |
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| I was surprised by the Woodward tapes | |
| Posted by: dramedy 06:43 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| In reply to: re: A great NY Times column by Laura Collins-Hughes "Where is Hollywood when Broadway needs it?" - BroadwayTonyJ 06:29 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| That trump knew how bad this virus potentially could be in January and then lied to the public. I gave the administration a lot of leeway that they didn’t know and it got out of control before they could do anything. But the tapes were a game changer for me. But without the vaccine, I doubt that theaters really would have opened by now. It seems sketchy in most countries what is open now as far as I can tell. I find it interesting that the Swedish approach of let it happen didnt work either with herd immunity. | |
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| The Swedish Approach to Covid | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 05:22 pm EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: I was surprised by the Woodward tapes - dramedy 06:43 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| The Swedish approach has not achieved herd immunity yet, although it may do so when combined with the number of vaccinations they do in the next few months. They are a relatively small country with a people who are far less divisive that we are. However, their approach has come at a very high price, although their death rate has not been quite as bad as ours or the Brits. There population is about 1/35 the size of the U.S. 13,088 actual deaths x 34,507 = 451,628 |
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| re: I was surprised by the Woodward tapes | |
| Posted by: Roman 11:24 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| In reply to: I was surprised by the Woodward tapes - dramedy 06:43 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| There was nothing surprising about those tapes. At all. | |
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| re: I was surprised by the Woodward tapes | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 07:36 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:36 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| In reply to: I was surprised by the Woodward tapes - dramedy 06:43 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| Any responsible president (Democrat or Republican) after getting the January info would have banned incoming flights from Europe and Asia almost immediately. U.S. citizens returning from abroad could have been quarantined in boats. Two years earlier Trump had disbanded the task force and playbook that been developed by previous administrations to deal with pandemics. Japan is a large country, although not as big as we are. They've had 8359 deaths with roughly 1/3 of our population. So 8359 x 3 = 25,000 total deaths. We are richer and have more resources and yet we have 525,000 deaths. |
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