B'way closed thru (at earliest) 1/3 now — Page 4

SweetLips22 said: "The whole world is in a state of flux that flows and ebbs which ever way the population allows.

We have absolute stupidity here in Victoria Australia where quarantine 'guests' in hotels went out shopping, had sex with security guards, visited others within the hotel and guards without any substantial specific training.

No matter what rules by well meaning officials are put in place it is the duty of the individual to protect each other.

This is a theatre board about a business, not any more special than other struggling businesses but they all interlock at some point to work as a whole.

One without the other is useless so once the little corner store, the coffee shop, drycleaner etc etc open their doors then gradual confidence builds until we start to hear live music flow down Broadway or out from any theatre world wide.

Don't predict, be patient and it WILL happen when it is MEANT to happen.

Support your charities to show you care for what you are missing.

'Love Peace and Brown Rice' as a very dear but very cynical friend often quoted."



Love your 'don't predict' sentence. Very Zen. I agree, but would not have thought to phrase it quite so logically.

I do have a question. I thought that Australia was doing great. Is that no longer the case,or are you pointing to gaps that need to be closed insure that things do continue on a positive path? Which leads me to...

i heard a great anecdote a couple of days ago from a friend whose son went to S. Korea since the Pandemic started, to be a best man in a wedding. He knew in advance that when he arrived, he would be escorted to a hotel in what sounds like whatever suburbia may be in a densely populated country like Korea. He was required to pay for the hotel for 14 days and was not allowed to leave his room. (He thought there'd be opportunities to take walks outside in some designated area, but that was not the case). Now, here's the best part. When he looked out the window one day, he saw people picketing in front of the hotel. They were picketing because they didn't like the fact that their neighborhood was being used as a quarantine location, for fear that the 'guests' would manage to get out, and potentially infect them. That is why their stats are so good, despite having things like live theatre still operating. We could learn, but we'd need anew administration and about a third of the country to be lobotomized.

Yes, January IS possible. There is ZERO point in stating that something 6 months away is completely out of the question. (And to be honest, I think that they should’ve even waited til later this summer or early-mid fall to make a final decision about extending that far when so much could change, but I will spare that rant). People can say that January is unlikely all they want, but until we get closer to the time, don’t say it’s not happening like that’s carved in stone. As far as going in February, I’d say there’s no harm in purchasing tickets, as shows are allowing that after 1/3. If (yes IF, DO NOT SAY DEFINITE) the shutdown gets extended yet again, you should be able to get an exchange/refund. There’s no harm in being optimistic.



Optimisim is one thing fantasy quite another. Technically anything is possible- but some things are probable - this is not one.

Here is some vaccine research timeline- Polio- Salk worked incessantly for two-and-a-half years. and even then there was a huge disaster w the the product from the Cutter labs.All five companies that produced the Salk vaccine in 1955—Eli-Lilley, Park-Davis, Wyeth, Pitman-Moore, and Cutter—had difficulty completely inactivating the polio virus.

Chicken Pox-VZV was isolated from vesicular fluid of both chickenpox and zoster lesions in cell culture by Thomas Weller in 1954. Subsequent laboratory studies of the virus led to the development of a live attenuated varicella vaccine in Japan in the 1970s. The vaccine was licensed for use in the United States in March 1995. The first vaccine to reduce the risk of herpes zoster was licensed in May 2006.

I'm very optimistic re a vaccine and the subsequent return to a form of normalcy but with realistic time lines.

Want a Broadway version? " I am preaching this sermon to show

That it ain't Necessarily SO"

self-censorship is next to godliness.

or some such.