[whatsgoingon4]

I hate to say this as far as those who are in the industry or are employed by it, but theaters are probably the thing I miss the least. Watching movies to me is disorienting and it takes so long for the movie to actually begin after all the previews. Probably just as good to watch it at home. But I don't go to theaters more than once or twice a year, so I get some miss it more.

But having to pay for a streaming service and then $30 on top of that is just too much. I think I'd do without if it came to that. Just my opinion.

I do remember hearing months ago when the virus was just taking off here that Asia had already reopened theaters and then quickly backed off. That was back when people were saying that we could expect to be getting back to normal in like 3 months since China had the virus since December and we were just starting in March!

[robr2]

Originally Posted by JayCT

We also saw Hamilton and while it was very good, it was difficult to follow the story because the dialog is all in rap music. I still enjoyed it though. Jay

Watch it again but with sub-titles. It'll give you chance to enjoy it more.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by JayCT

I think these major movies being released to streaming services is spoiling us. I do not miss going to the movies at all. We have Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Apple TV and a couple others I can’t keep track of. Our large screen tv isn’t as big as a movie screen but then again you are not sitting 50 feet or more from the tv so it doesn’t really matter to me.

BTW the Tom Hanks movie you mention is Greyhound and it is excellent. It’s among his best in an already unbelievably large roster of excellent movies. I’m not a big war movie buff but this was enthralling though it had little plot. The 90+ minutes flew by. I highly recommend it.


We also saw Hamilton and while it was very good, it was difficult to follow the story because the dialog is all in rap music. I still enjoyed it though. Jay

Originally Posted by whatsgoingon4

I hate to say this as far as those who are in the industry or are employed by it, but theaters are probably the thing I miss the least. Watching movies to me is disorienting and it takes so long for the movie to actually begin after all the previews. Probably just as good to watch it at home. But I don't go to theaters more than once or twice a year, so I get some miss it more.

But having to pay for a streaming service and then $30 on top of that is just too much. I think I'd do without if it came to that. Just my opinion.

I agree with gmguy that I shouldn't go too off topic with this, but my issue isn't going to the movie theatre, it's basically being forced to pay what probably totals when you add up all the streaming services about $50-100/month to do something that I could've done as a "one off" when I wanted to. I'm not against the streaming services in and of themselves at all but that I now have to do this just to see first run movies which seems a lot more expensive than just going to the movie theatre when I want to especially since you're still paying extra for the movie itself. What there should be instead on first run movies is an option to just pay to stream the movie without subscribing to a multitude of services because different movies will be on different services that you may only use to see 1 or 2 movies a year on. I could see 2nd run movies ending up on a particular streaming service they way they are/used to with HBO, Showtime, etc.

Since I already said I do have Disney+ I pretty much agree with you about Hamilton.

Originally Posted by robr2

Watch it again but with sub-titles. It'll give you chance to enjoy it more.

I actually did that and agree. Again sorry for taking this a little off-topic.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by robr2

Watch it again but with sub-titles. It'll give you chance to enjoy it more.

Some one else recommended that. I’ll have to try it. Thanks' Jay

[gmdealerguy]

So I pose this question:

Masks......What is everyone's thought on police/state troopers wearing them? I ask because I have seen many people on the side of the merritt either pulled over or due to an accident and the the trooper is right in the window leaning in, no mask. I have seen this countess times and there's never a mask on the officer. If I get puled over I am not opening my window unless he outs on a mask. Thoughts?

[JGBigGreen]

Refusing an order to lower your window would probably not be the best idea.

Originally Posted by gmdealerguy

So I pose this question:

Masks......What is everyone's thought on police/state troopers wearing them? I ask because I have seen many people on the side of the merritt either pulled over or due to an accident and the the trooper is right in the window leaning in, no mask. I have seen this countess times and there's never a mask on the officer. If I get puled over I am not opening my window unless he outs on a mask. Thoughts?

[whatsgoingon4]

I noticed this article today, and was wondering what everyone thought about it: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fa...=mw_latestnews

From what I got, it's basically saying we may have a vaccine next year, but it'll likely be between 70-75% effective at best, which won't be close enough to 100%, so we'll still have to wear masks and social distance forever basically. The vaccine in itself won't be the magic bullet in getting the virus under control.

Which I get, but it seems they didn't come right out and say masks and shutdowns are permanent, but how else would we "keep it under control" if we didn't keep following them forever?

They also stated that for herd immunity to work, you'd need between 75-95% population immunity, which is impossible. They seem to be implying the T-cell research isn't peer reviewed so doesn't apply.

If all this is true the economy is done for, permanently. Whatever we're doing right now isn't going to keep working, the way I see it.

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by whatsgoingon4

I noticed this article today, and was wondering what everyone thought about it: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fa...=mw_latestnews

From what I got, it's basically saying we may have a vaccine next year, but it'll likely be between 70-75% effective at best, which won't be close enough to 100%, so we'll still have to wear masks and social distance forever basically. The vaccine in itself won't be the magic bullet in getting the virus under control.

Which I get, but it seems they didn't come right out and say masks and shutdowns are permanent, but how else would we "keep it under control" if we didn't keep following them forever?

They also stated that for herd immunity to work, you'd need between 75-95% population immunity, which is impossible. They seem to be implying the T-cell research isn't peer reviewed so doesn't apply.

If all this is true the economy is done for, permanently. Whatever we're doing right now isn't going to keep working, the way I see it.

That article is all over the place.

First it quotes someone from Mayo Clinic in April, when knowledge was still thin.

Then it jumps to a very general interview about preprints, that does not talk about herd immunity or T-cell immunity at all. More on a general statement about how policy is difficult with preprints. Obvious. Also almost everything is going to be a preprint as this pandemic is pretty young.

These articles surmise that all experts think one way, and that's just not true.

I can easily pull a recent Mayo Clinic reference that suggests a lower threshold:

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...9-342d9c2dc6d6

I still stand by my prediction that this will burn out and/or become a lesser endemic weakened virus before any widespread vaccine is available.

[Reilly1017]

Originally Posted by gmdealerguy

So I pose this question:

Masks......What is everyone's thought on police/state troopers wearing them? I ask because I have seen many people on the side of the merritt either pulled over or due to an accident and the the trooper is right in the window leaning in, no mask. I have seen this countess times and there's never a mask on the officer. If I get puled over I am not opening my window unless he outs on a mask. Thoughts?

Don’t speed and drive by the rules? I have not been pulled over in 15 years.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Stylo

I still stand by my prediction that this will burn out and/or become a lesser endemic weakened virus before any widespread vaccine is available.

And only a few vaccines (polio and measles come to mind) are really 90%+ effective. Flu vaccine is about 50% effective and we're not locked down over it. So even if a vaccine doesn't magically undo it right away, this will end. Maybe it will take a couple of years to truly be back to 2019 society (I hope not but that I can believe), but there is no way this is going to be forever, history shows otherwise.