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Question about the movie theater chains acting like this time they're truly going to open...
What do you think the decision is: We give up?
That's the only thing I can think of. It's a mirror to the way America decided to "address" this virus. Scoff at it, Bungle our way around it, and then trying to wish it away.
In the last few days, the overall virus numbers have trended down. Let's just say we've been down this road before. A couple of times now. And anyone with sense has seen what happens. With no vaccine, and no willingness to truly work at getting it under control, the same things are obviously going to happen. We "flatten" the positive test/death curves, and we then decide, for reasons I can only attest to a very high level of dumbness, stupidity, choose your word, that it's somehow "gone away", and we open back up, and we know what happens, and around and around we go.
We've seen the theater chains repeatedly decide to step back and move things to the right, because COMMON SENSE has shown that opening theaters back up is simply the WRONG thing to do from a scientific, medical, educated perspective.
But now the rubber has apparently hit the road. Theater chains are sounding like THEATERS ARE OPENING, come hell or high water.
Or both.
Is it an acknowledgement that it's over for the chains? Let's just get on it and play the endgame? let's go ahead and the pending stories like, Hundreds test positive in (name your city and theater) and state forces shut down of all indoor group activities"...giving yet another negative mark to the movies.
I'm guessing that's the case. It's clearly, CLEARLY what the MLB has decided to do. Every few days now, yet another club has an outbreak of cases (go look at ESPN right now as I write this), games get cancelled, teams can't travel or play, and yet so far they continue to move forward with what is perhaps the most embarassing fiasco that organized sports has seen in America since, well, since The Astros cheated (they are about the luckiest organization in the history of organized sports, but that's a different discussion lol), just kidding. It's a smear on the sport that will live on forever, unless they quickly change course, which they don't seem to want to do.
MONEY.
So with the theater chains, what's the reasoningj/logic behind this time saying, "we're opening in late August and that's it", when they know that nothing regarding the virus has changed, it's not left, it's not gone away, and now they seem to be onboard, inviting some really bad things to happen?
Question about the movie theater chains acting like this time they're truly going to open... Aug 04, 11:57
Its company executives deciding that profits are worth more than lives. Aug 04, 21:01
