With the CDC declaring it a pandemic, and Trump announcing a travel ban from Europe for 30 days, it makes me wonder if theaters in the US might actually shut down. It also makes me fear what will happen with stocks tomorrow. The market dropped almost 6% today with the CDC announcement. What will happen with the travel ban? That will cause a major economic impact.

The world's economy is going down the toilet

Tom Hanks has it.

NBA season officially suspended.
Travel Ban from Europe.

Tom Hanks is the least of our worries lol

This hysteria is bizarre. I can't imagine what it would be like if the death rate was higher.

Rich people are gonna freak the fuck out about Tom Hanks. Shows that nobody is safe.

An aide to Senator Maria Cantwell (WA) tested positive this evening too. Given how crowded the Hill is (each Senator can have up to 50 or more staff), it wouldn't be shocking if she transmitted it to others.

Mexico went from 7 cases to 12 in 24 hours. Here it comes down here.
And we have a much more warmer weather than the US. Lol.

It was surreal seeing that last NBA game getting cancelled right before tipoff. The players simply refused to play.

Streaming is gonna be the only winner from this.

How many movies will skip theaters and go straight to Netflix?

Lol

I’m sure they’ll just give it a long delay, but I do wonder if Disney could pivot the Mulan marketing into pushing Disney+ subs and premiere it there.

It's mortality rate is still 3%.

And below 60 years old is below 1%. So not a deadly virus at all. You wanna talk deadly, what about Ebola. That had a 40-50% death rate so shut up about medical subjects you have no idea about. The thing about this virus is not death ttoll.

It's about COSTS, like Magnus shockingly said, there's now at the world can afford 30% of the cases going into the Icu. There's not enough icu beds. Not enough intensivists. Not enough meds.

That's what avoiding the crisis is all about not total death

This would be great move though right now they are still planning to release it hoping things will calm down in next few weeks, which they won.t. Then again Disney+ is not available in OS and specially Asian markets which was supposedly their biggest target audience.

Sure total human race wipeout is unlikely, but...

When hospitals are overcrowded, the quality of medical care drops and death rate will rise rapidly.

And this virus is highly transmissible and deadly to the elderly and people with a weak immune system.

Maybe I should have highlighted the full sentence there then

Yeah, that's what happened in Hong Kong. Movie theaters mostly operated as usual with some having alternate row seating plan, but events with large crowds were either canceled or free of live audiences.

But in the US, the lack of diagnostic testing has caused community transmission in some areas with no mitigation measures in place. It is not a bad idea to have theaters closed in those affected areas.

Ebola has a high mortality rate but requires bodily fluid to transmit. Since it's first appearance in 1976, the various strains have killed around 13-15k people. Coronavirus will pass 5k in the next day or two. It will likely end up killing more people in one year than Ebola has in 44 years. While people who do contract ebola are likely to die a horrific painful death, there's almost no chance of getting it unless you're in close proximity to health workers or infected people in central Africa. While you're unlikely to die from coronavirus, the chances of getting it are comparatively really high. To me, that makes it the scarier of the two. And, because it spreads so easily, and so many people are unwilling to allow it to affect them, it will be that much worse. Think about all the close spaces people are packed into. Airports, buses, concerts, sporting events, theaters, grocery stores, malls, restaurants, casinos, compact office spaces, bars, and on and on. Scary.

It is a threat to humanity. Look at the number of cases worldwide. Every virus is a threat. It's not about the mortality rate but how rapidly it can spread, impact your life and the overall economy.

I'm not scared of the virus. I'm more worried about people who don't take this seriously and decide that it's just another common cold or they don't care. Their reckless actions puts even those who do take it seriously at risk.

Everything shutting down will never happen because people still need to work.


If this is the mentality of theater owners then there is something wrong with them. Their thought process should be "How can we safeguard the staff and patrons from this virus?" or "How can we make sure patrons keep coming back?" at the very least if they don't care about lives, not "How much money can we make this weekend?"

From my perspective, this is where we are at with the big picture. Cover-ups don't work (China, US, x other countries) nor does complacency. Early preventative measures suppress the spread of the virus (China, South Korea).

Food for thought: If China had delayed their response by 2 weeks until after Chinese New Year was over, tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people would have been infected by now.

Tens of millions of people probably are already infected.

This is NOT a thread to humanity because we can still survive with this virus AFTER the break of cases worldwide. Impact to economy is never a threat to existence, humanity has survived WAY WORSE threats in the past, this does not even come close to World War where people are divided and became a threat to each other's existence. While there are bans and restrictions they are meant for good intentions and governments are not "refusing" to help each other.

As for people not taking this seriously not every one can have the same mindset about a thing. The restrictions and bans that the governments are placing are to prevent reckless actions but again they should still exercise moderation and use judgement where applicable. You can only prepare people but if an individual does not want to listen you can't help them, placing people in jail will not solve the purpose as well.

And everything not shutting down means that the virus is not a threat to existence.

Supposedly one in 200,000 people in Australia have it, but it happens to infect Tom Hanks, who is probably the single most famous person in the country right now. Sure.

Less than one in 100,000 are reported to have it in the UK, yet it infects one of the handful of health ministers.

Less than one in 250,000 in US have it according to the data, but it infects one of the 400-450 NBA players.

Just like senior officials in Iran were over represented.

The virus must be precise, sophisticated, intelligent and on a mission to target celebrities. The mathematical odds of this being a coincidence or bad luck are quite small. Their cases are being detected because they are more likely to be tested.

8% of Iran’s parliament probably had it because about 8% of the population likely had it. That would be over 6 million people in Iran alone. Why are hospitals not overwhelmed? Why not reports of surging death tolls? Because the disease is probably even milder than reported. The statistics on fatality and hospitalization rates are unreliable with the undetected cases. People who die have underlying conditions and may have died from other causes anyway. I also wonder if the one percent death toll on the diamond princess and in South Korea may be related to the diagnosis. The panic, fear and hysteria may be deadlier than the virus.

It’s almost certainly spreading like wildfire in Australia but going almost completely undetected. Tom Hanks and his wife had very mild symptoms, they didn’t even mention a cough or sneeze, and they are older. Younger people will have even milder symptoms. It’s still summer in Australia, and it’s warming in the northern hemisphere. It should spread quickly in the summer while most cases are undetected, and then when symptoms return in the fall expect more panic.

Looks like this weekends F1 season opener here in Melbourne is about to be cancelled. The travelling circus is here and so too thousands of international visitors. Looks like I won’t be going tomorrow.

Uhm, this doesn't seem to sound accurate, I thought even Hanks himself announced he and his wife were having fever. I think fever is a pretty serious symptom, it might not be full on pneumonia (yet), but fever is usually a defense.mechanism.of the body fighting something more serious.