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13 Mar 20 - 03:25 PM (#4039371) Subject: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu Well, yes, I know there is a "pandemic" thread, and it's getting pretty long! My idea is a thread with a narrower focus, hence the title. The latest from Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Globe: first-ever postponement of the Boston Marathon, 2020 |
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13 Mar 20 - 05:33 PM (#4039383) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Stanron What about ST Pat's day celebrations? |
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13 Mar 20 - 06:45 PM (#4039397) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu Since you asked, Stanron: Washington Post |
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13 Mar 20 - 07:34 PM (#4039406) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Stanron Your link doesn't like my adblocker, which I'm not about to remove, so I didn't get to read much more than some gatherings are cancelled. I had guessed that this would be the case and I can see the sense of it. I just wonder how much harm will come from suppressing so much economic activity. I'm old and I have a heart condition. I'm going to have a bad time if I get it. Young people can suffer little more than the effects of a mild cold. Do you think my generation should say "OK I've had my time, all in all it's been a pretty good time. Don't wreck the economy on my behalf. I probably haven't got all that much longer to go anyway"? |
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13 Mar 20 - 07:57 PM (#4039411) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu Dunno, Stanron. I'm middle-aged, and old age is not far away. Let's see, what do I recall of the Washington Post article: Boston cancelled its St. Patrick's Day Parade, with business owners in South ("Southie") Boston observing that 30% of their yearly business profits come from that observance. New York has cancelled said parade, also Savannah, Georgia, and San Francisco. So, as the OP disclosed, the "Patriot's Day" holiday, in April, will happen without the Boston Marathon, postponed for the first time in 124 years; instead the Marathon is scheduled, in 2020, for September. Already I see social media mutterings about how hot September is in Boston, what is that going to do to the poor runners ... |
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15 Mar 20 - 03:29 PM (#4039730) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu Schools are temporarily closing across Massachusetts now. |
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15 Mar 20 - 03:44 PM (#4039739) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Mrrzy Stanron, absolutely not. Charlottesville has canceled the VA festival of the book and the Tom Tom festival; my qi gong class is canceled, UVA has canceled in-person classes. My atheist group canceled PiDay and the solstice party then decided to have the solstice party after all, while my social club is not canceling anything yet, but has not posted what we had decided to do, either. Only 6 of us showed up for the StPat's thing when we usually have 15-30. Restaurants are open. Grocery stores are limiting purchases and are out of a ton of things like garlic (this is not a vampire apocalypse, people!)... And we have no confirmed cases, not one. |
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15 Mar 20 - 03:47 PM (#4039741) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Mrrzy Oh, yeah, all my group therapy things are canceled too. |
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15 Mar 20 - 04:36 PM (#4039747) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Stilly River Sage I have one-on-one physical therapy for the next three weeks. I'll have to see if they are cancelled. #KneeSurgery |
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15 Mar 20 - 05:17 PM (#4039755) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Rapparee A couple of school districts here in Idaho have closed, Gov. has declared an emergency. All sorts of Catholic dioceses (Salt Lake City, Peoria, Little Rock, NYC and others) have cancelled all services. LDS have told 20K people not to come to the General Conference this spring in Salt Lake City -- they'll send it on video around the world instead. Being health conscious and a good citizen and concerned about health (mine in particular) I bought the LAST FOUR hand sanitizer stations and the LAST six refills for them in town and gave them to the church so people could feel good about not having yucky hands...now I can stop going in feel GOOOOOOOD about it. No diapers, cereal, no shelf-stable milk, and the usual shelves were empty at the store this morning. |
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16 Mar 20 - 09:29 AM (#4039902) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Mrrzy I don't think the US *has* shelf-stable milk. |
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17 Mar 20 - 02:52 PM (#4040306) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu Postponement of presidential primary elections in certain states: I heard Ohio and Maryland, know of any others? |
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17 Mar 20 - 05:54 PM (#4040343) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Bonzo3legs My sister is due to have Cyberknife Radiotherapy from Thursday, which luckily is going ahead. |
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17 Mar 20 - 07:39 PM (#4040360) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu I overlooked the state of Kentucky -- their presidential primary is postponed until the summer. Arizona has a split going on. Democrats in Arizona had their presidential primary today. Republicans in Arizona did not. Low turnout in Illinois, and am I wrong, or is Illinois one of the swing states? |
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17 Mar 20 - 10:11 PM (#4040391) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Joe Offer I belong to a social justice group in California, and we're having a meeting on Zoom right now. Everybody is confused, but some people are coming up with ways to get through anyhow. Our primary issues are homelessness, immigration, and criminal justice. The world may be paralyzed with the coronavirus, but people are still homeless and in jeopardy of deportation and in jail. I'm glad that we can keep working. I was in tears as we ended the meeting. It is so good that we can keep on keeping on. -Joe- |
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20 Mar 20 - 10:46 AM (#4040915) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu Now Texas is on statewide "lockdown." |
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20 Mar 20 - 10:48 AM (#4040917) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu ... and Las Vegas, Nevada is closed down as well. |
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21 Mar 20 - 05:03 PM (#4041195) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Mrrzy Restaurants are only doing takeout. Nobody went to the solstice party or ladt Tueday's monthly dinner. I tried to start a community grocery list but nobody wants to... Almost wish I had a roomie. |
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25 Mar 20 - 06:34 PM (#4042099) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu The Tony Awards had a "cut-off date" of April 23, so as to have their ceremony in early June. Now the Tony Awards have been postponed without rescheduling yet. It isn't the June ceremony that's the problem, so much as that April deadline. |
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28 Mar 20 - 08:03 PM (#4042724) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu New York Governor Cuomo has now postponed the New York presidential primary election until late June 2020. |
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31 Mar 20 - 09:49 AM (#4043343) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Mrrzy I think my annual Float Trip with the [other] tripping naked hippies just went down the tubes. It's the last weekend in May and mostly in Virginia. |
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03 Apr 20 - 03:56 PM (#4043862) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu "Mayflower Sails 2020" was planned for May, in Boston Harbor. Postponement is the word they are using now, not cancellation; "new dates coming soon," says the website. (In order to board Mayflower II, one has to have a ticket, although the tickets are free; ticketholders are being asked to hold on to their tickets while waiting for the rescheduling.) |
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31 May 20 - 05:48 PM (#4056339) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: keberoxu This thread was opened with the postponement of the Boston Marathon. It's no longer a postponement, it's outright cancellation. |
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02 Jun 20 - 10:18 PM (#4056825) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Donuel The clean air and water act has been canceled. you know who |
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03 Jun 20 - 11:08 PM (#4057084) Subject: RE: BS: USA postponements and delays From: Mrrzy No 4th of July fireworks here! |