Here is a recent picture of Mount Vesuvius
The election is in November; if we can just survive that...
Posted on 05/04/2020 8:19:45 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Fewer than half of Americans plan to go to concerts, movies, sports events and amusement parks when they reopen to the public until there is a proven coronavirus vaccine, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 4,429 American adults from April 15 to 21, asking about their previous attendance at sports events and live concerts and their interest in attending if they reopened before a coronavirus vaccine is available. The poll questions noted a vaccine might not be available for more than a year.
About four in 10 people who follow sports avidly and go to arts and entertainment venues and amusement parks said they would do so again if they reopened before a vaccine was available, according to the poll. Another four in 10 said they were willing to wait, even if it takes more than a year to develop a vaccine. The rest said they either “don’t know” what to do or may never attend those events again.
The United States leads the world with almost 1 million coronavirus infections and more than 56,000 deaths as of late Monday. Scientists project that a vaccine will not be on the market for 18 months.
Sporting events fared worst in the poll, with just 17% of American adults saying they would attend when they are reopened to the public, while 26% said they would rather wait for a vaccine.
However, the numbers were much higher among people who had actually attended a professional sporting event in the past year, with 42% said they would return whenever sports reopens to the public and 39% saying they would rather wait for a vaccine.
The poll showed that only 27% of those questioned would go to a movie theater, concert or live theater performance when venues reopen. Thirty-two percent said they would wait for a vaccine before going back to the movies, theater or concerts. In all, 55% of Americans said those events should not resume before a vaccine is available, although movie theaters in some states are already planning on reopening next month.
While a further breakdown was not posted, like sporting events, presumably the percentages are higher among Americans who had actually attended films or concerts in the past year.
Along with sports, theme and amusement parks posted grim numbers. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they should not reopen until a vaccine is available, while just 20% said they would visit a theme park when they reopen.
Universal Studios has extended its closures in California and Florida until the end of May, while Disneyland and Walt Disney World are closed indefinitely.
As a kid, I was an all-star athlete who got straight As and had visions of becoming a MLB player...but life interceded and gave me a different path.
When I completed my MBA at 37 as a single dad with 2 young daughters, I gave myself a fitness club membership as a reward and have belonged to one ever since.
Like you said, it truly becomes a lifestyle.
This # will last about a month. Once the scardy cats see other people living their lives, they will realize it’s ok to be a human again.
I have been telling everyone I see this. I have been posting this. Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to increase the damage, even hurting the funds in which the teachers are vested for retirement. Blows my mind.
Naah. Once enough start going their herd instinct will kick in and they’ll go do they don’t get shamed. FAKE NEWS.
I think there is a disconnect with people. Their bellies are full, they still have electricity and internet, and they are along for the ride because they have been told for 2 months that staying home and away from other people is the right thing to do.
Few of them are really thinking beyond their immediate circumstance, which is likely some form of “staycation” in the house. I don’t think the public realizes how devastating this has been for our economy, our freedoms, and our national debt.
Sports is devastated.
No more college games of 100000 fans for awhile.
The resurgence of Sonic and A&W type drive-ins.
Restaurants going to delivery only (fast-food) - lots of downsizing.
Community (co-located shared kitchens) for delivery
Online gambling and gaming.
Grocery stores becoming warehouses for things like instacart or clicklist
Loved the compartments on the Germany regional trains in the 1980s when stationed there.
Leonid and Friends was supposed to have a US tour in June-August. We’d love to go see them again and if there’s a concert within 100 miles, we’ll be there.
And too much Communist Chinese money flowing into Hollywood. Killed many franchises I used to love
A poll of what people say they might do is pretty useless... especially these days.
No, they do not realize the consequences.
Here is a recent picture of Mount Vesuvius
The election is in November; if we can just survive that...
Thank you. Validated my point.
Hmmmm. This one says 40% will stay home meaning 60% will go out. Polls. Who knew? LOL!
Things missed:
1) The study says among people who are enthusiastic attendees of such events pre virus. It is the enthusiastic who will not go. If you didn’t care much about those events pre virus, you’re not part of the measurement.
2) There is rather a lot of talk about “when this is over” and “herd immunity”. There is no law of the universe that says this will ever be over or there will ever be herd immunity.
3) There is a perspective that we have adjusted to natural pathogens before because God doesn’t create things that will devastate us globally. Well, there is growing evidence God didn’t create this virus.
4) The numbers are still growing. It’s May. Remember when flu season ending was going to end the numbers’ growth?
5) When cars arrived in society and highways were built, they killed millions. We didn’t stop driving vehicles because trucks carry food to cities. But we did accept standards. Licensing of people. Seat belt standards on vehicles. All sorts of safety stuff. There is no reason to expect anything different for this new source of death. Standards are going to be imposed. Seatbelts aren’t free, but they are effective and we accepted the expense. We will do the same with the virus.
This is nuts. Of course, I’ve traveled as much as I can...to a great neighboring state! - and I go out every day, I go to another nearby city where I have an apartment ....because fortunately Florida has not totally shut us down. The local mayor was overzealous but I’m not sure how much the sheriffs are enforcing this stuff anymore. We’re an outdoor state and virtually nobody catches anything on the beach.
But unfortunately Florida is under attack from the national media, so it’s hard for politicians.
The only places that have been a problem were already “protected” and isolated places, such as nursing homes, where nobody has any immunity to anything because they never get outside and they spend their lives breathing recirculated air and actually never fully open their lungs. So when a virus gets in .. as it will.. of course it’s going to rampage through. I read that most of the people who died in FL and several other states had a life expectancy of less than a year anyway, because many were already bedridden, on feeding tubes, etc.
As for the vaccine, I don’t care. I’d get it, just as I get the flu vaccines. In other words, it may not protect you entirely, but sometimes it helps. But this would be only if it doesn’t have the Bill Gates microchip in it, and I think that is what is making so many people afraid.
Is everything to the scum left a poll?
I would be one.
I probably won’t change my behavior at all. There is a movie theater literally a 3 minute walk from my door. I can check the start time, and at two minutes to the start, can walk over, get a ticket, get a popcorn and diet pepsi (or raisinets) and sit down just as the commercials/previews end.
Much better screen than watching a movie at home.
What has also worked is that, in just six weeks and without lifting a finger (or threatening to fire a missile) China, our mortal enemy, has done serious damage to America's and the West's economic systems and has wreaked havoc on the liberty-base social fabric of the United States.
It's not all that surprising that China has been able to seriously disrupt the West's economic system (although not to the extent that upwards of 130,000,000 people in less-developed countries face starvation as the result of the lockdown of the West), but what is very surprising to me is that the Chinese have developed such a thorough understanding, comprehensive to the point of being shocking, of the American physche ... that they have done a breathtaking amount of damage to a free society through fear, even as the cause of the fear has turned out to be wildly exaggerated.
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