How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Sredni Eel]

I wanted zombies.

 

[Sredni Eel]

San Francisco is now a ghost town. The scenes from BART are particularly telling, since the station shown is the busiest one. BART, which used to run from 4am till 1am is now running 8am till 5pm with no weekend service (or single tracking if you're lucky).

I wanted zombies. Or werewolves. Werewolves would have been fine.

 

[Isabeau]

I hope this is true.

Suddenly, knucklehead culture has lost any charm it once might have had

The democratization of decadence worked for lots of people for a long time, now there aren’t even any sports to provide the necessary can-do language

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Holy smoke!

 

[Sredni Eel]

 

[Pamela]

Holy smoke!

Love that guy!

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

1-3 will kill ya.

20 or so will almost certainly bankrupt you, even if you HAVE health insurance.

Presuming you can find a hospital with capacity to admit you, that is. Good luck with that in 2 weeks.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Three men arrested in Essex after haul of loo roll found in van

Vehicle pulled over by police also contained a stash of stolen handwash and other items

www.theguardian.com

Essex men, vans (can't be sure about the colour from the pic)...

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Don't forget this

 

[Pamela]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Gamestop is closing its California stores and laying off all workers, a week after having told its employees they had to work despite the statewide shelter order and instructing employees to say that Gamestop counts as an "essential business" if questioned by any authorities.

 

[Pamela]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

The production company behind "Ancient Aliens" and "The Curse of Oak Island" has declared itself still open in California, citing the clause in the lockdown order exempting newsgathering and reporting for broadcast media as essential services, and has threatened employees who try to work from home that they will be fired.

Former workers at Prometheus claimed to THR that they were told to wrap early if they wanted to work from home due to fear of coronavirus. Former associate producer Tara Price, who tweeted about her experience on The UnXplained on Sunday, told THR that she lost her job after requesting to work from home last Thursday, after the World Health Organization had labeled coronavirus a pandemic. Her supervisor, who immediately allowed her to, later told her it was against company policy and she would have to leave her job to stay home, which she did.

"I was an AP on #TheUnXplained but lost my job due to the president of the production company refusing to allow his employees to work remotely during the #COVID_19 pandemic. I wonder what @HISTORY and @WilliamShatner think of so many lives being put at risk over their TV show?" she tweeted on Sunday. "In fact the entire LA staff was told in a company meeting held by the president of Prometheus Entertainment that they were being "hysterical" and that they needed to "get over it" in response to their #coronavirus concerns."

Another source, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed Price's description of her experience, saying that Burns told the staff that if anyone was at risk, he was, due to his age (Burns is 64 years old; in a conversation with THR, Burns says he did make that comment). Burns made clear to those currently employed by Prometheus that they could leave their shows if they chose to, but that he would not allow certain job roles to work from home and remain currently employed.

"I think people are really scared to not work and what's going to happen is there's going to be an evaporation of work for three months," a third source who worked at Prometheus Entertainment and wished to remain anonymous says. "I don't begrudge people for being fearful of their livelihood. What I can't stand is that there's someone who has a lack of regard for employees to put them in harm's way."

Employees who were still at offices as of Friday described feeling torn between concern for their own safety and concern for how long the coronavirus would endanger their ability to get a paycheck. "People are freaked because it's a paycheck, it's money and the industry could be shut down for months," one source said.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Some of the streaming services are getting throttled.

I am considering downloading (whistles) a few seasons of some show (undecided) for that reason. You can download some Netflix shows to a device like a phone or tablet, but cannot from a web browser (I assume because they think a person could steal it somehow), so that depends upon the size of an sd card. There is a windows Netflix app that allows downloads, but it's a bit flaky and outdated.

I suppose a person could download to a phone then cast it to their tv.

 

[Sredni Eel]

Gamestop is closing its California stores and laying off all workers, a week after having told its employees they had to work despite the statewide shelter order and instructing employees to say that Gamestop counts as an "essential business" if questioned by any authorities.

This surprises me. I thought they'd all closed before this pandemic was a thing. But yeah, gamestop has always been a shitty company to its employees.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Dollar Tree the company, is partially responsible for this. They have an absolute right to refuse to sell their entire stock of a shortage good to a single customer.

 

[Anya Ristow]

Holy smoke!

He shoulda sat in her chair and said, "we are very much not in recess."

 

[Sredni Eel]

Dollar Tree the company, is partially responsible for this. They have an absolute right to refuse to sell their entire stock of a shortage good to a single customer.

Special place in Hell, etc.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol wow.