Covid-19 (Novel Coronavirus) - Effects on the production industry

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Not much of a surprise, but 'Jeopardy' & 'Wheel Of Fortune' will have no audiences moving forward (until all is well/better again).
 
I just lost another job thanks to Coronavirus, only a one day shoot this time, but that's four jobs now. Might have to start shooting stock...
 
This panic is becoming silly. Group think? It seems: 'we don't want get blamed' is the driving force behind most of it.
 
NAB may have the good sense not to panic, implementing a 'no handshake' policy, and go on with the show, but those silly people at the American College of Cardiology decided to cancel their annual meeting this month in Chicago. Meh ... what do they know.
 
Right but:
"Most of the victims who have died were elderly, many over the age of 80, had underlying health conditions including cancer, and were already in hospital when the virus was detected."

The economic damage is out of proportion to the problem. I am curious about the future evaluation of this situation.

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100 people die per day in car accidents in the States. Statistics are a funny thing.

It's natural to take the cautious side when a deadly unknown comes into our lives. Regardless of what the statistics currently say, we don't know much about this virus. We personally don't know what our odds of dying are if we get it. In these early months, it seems that old people are, as usual, the primary victims. But with what seems to be a 2x or 3x death rate compared to other viruses, it is for sure, of greater concern for everyone.

Many of my friends and colleagues in in their 60s and 70s. They have a reason to have great concern as recent statistics indicate the death rate for them to be over 15%. A younger person, may think, meh, it's just another flu. And for them, maybe it is. We just don't know yet. Time has to pass to see how this plays out and then things will settle out to some sort of new norm.
 
That's why I linked to Fauci's article. He may not poke anyone with a scalpel but he knows his bugs.
 
Publimix said:
Right but:
"Most of the victims who have died were elderly, many over the age of 80, had underlying health conditions including cancer, and were already in hospital when the virus was detected."

The economic damage is out of proportion to the problem. I am curious about the future evaluation of this situation.

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My mum is 82, I'll tell her she's expendable.

The point you are missing is dealing with this virus will overwhelm our healthcare systems and it will affect every area of life. If 20% of the workforce can't show up for work it will have a major impact on the economy.
 
Paul F said:
100 people die per day in car accidents in the States. Statistics are a funny thing.
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That's whataboutery and is entirely meaningless in this debate.

Paul F said:
It's natural to take the cautious side when a deadly unknown comes into our lives. Regardless of what the statistics currently say, we don't know much about this virus. We personally don't know what our odds of dying are if we get it. In these early months, it seems that old people are, as usual, the primary victims. But with what seems to be a 2x or 3x death rate compared to other viruses, it is for sure, of greater concern for everyone.

Many of my friends and colleagues in in their 60s and 70s. They have a reason to have great concern as recent statistics indicate the death rate for them to be over 15%. A younger person, may think, meh, it's just another flu. And for them, maybe it is. We just don't know yet. Time has to pass to see how this plays out and then things will settle out to some sort of new norm.
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And if those younger people don't take proper precautions they will spread the virus and kill more people.
 
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I must say I am rather disgusted by all this downplaying of a very serious situation and comments that only old people get it.
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I agree. It doesn't help that so many people are giving their opinion on TV, radio or in the press who don't even have the slightest idea what they are talking about. The constant drip-feed of misinformation will make this crisis far worse than it needs to be.
 
Liam Hall said:
And if those younger people don't take proper precautions they will spread the virus and kill more people.
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That is true of every flu. The personal responsibility of spreading any flu remains the same. Suppose over time, we find out that this virus is exactly 2x more deadly than other virus. Now what? What does that mean to us in our personal habits, our jobs, travel, economy? 'Just' because it's twice as deadly the world should stop? Is 2x the cutoff? What if it was 1.5x more deadly or what if it is .5x more deadly? What is the point we should panic or not panic? What is the point at which we need to take greater personal responsibility for causing the death of others? How many people have you killed in your life by spreading the flu? You don't know.

I'm not looking for any answers. It's just food for though on how we behave when we get new information we don't understand. We don't understand this virus yet, so we don't yet know how much we need to do to deal with it. Just what is the right balance between caution and getting on with life is not yet established.
 
Liam Hall said:
I agree. It doesn't help that so many people are giving their opinion on TV, radio or in the press who don't even have the slightest idea what they are talking about. The constant drip-feed of misinformation will make this crisis far worse than it needs to be.
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Indeed.

This virus can be beaten but it requires quite invasive public quarantine measures. South Korea and Japan are countries that get it. Italy is starting to get it the hard way.
In the USA we are far from getting it.

Unfortunately, the longer we wait to take real measures the more draconian the measures need to be down the line.
 
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