How Long ??

I hate to be that guy, but did this really need a new thread?

Hopefully Memorial Day, but that feels like a pipe dream. We’re getting prepared to hear that schools may be closed for in person learning for the remainder of the year. That’s 12 weeks. Where I live, we’ve gone from 2 cases to over 100 in a week. It’s scary.

My guess is Labor Day weekend.

I think the only thing that could shorten it from being much longer than anyone wants is they are able to figure out some type of antiviral medicine (not vaccine) that can mitigate symptoms pretty effectively. My hope is with everyone working on things like that, it'll come sooner than we hope.

JennH said: "Mr. Wormwood said: "I think the only thing that could shorten it from being much longer than anyone wants is they are able to figure out some type of antiviral medicine (not vaccine) that can mitigate symptoms pretty effectively. My hope is with everyone working on things like that, it'll come sooner than we hope."

DEAR HEAVENS, I HOPE SO...but sadly it can still be passed, but at least society could function I suppose. Do you have sources for the work being doneon this? Not that I want to go down another rabbit hole, but I need a semblance of hope right now too..."

I don't have any concrete sources aside from various tweets and articles over the past couple weeks about different drug companies around the globe working on things. Some are claiming some effectiveness (I remember reading about Cuba and Japan both saying they are having some success) but nothing groundbreaking yet. I just think that's the quickest route at this point since all accounts seem to think a vaccine is 12-18 months away.

stoptheworld38 said: "Well I know the CDC said something about no gatherings of over 50 people for 8 weeks so based on that we’re looking at mid-May at the earliest. But no official Broadway update/announcement again so far... Anyway I’m really hoping that by May or so this all gets improved enough that shows can open back up... "

If it's May, it will be of 2021.

Is it true they are shutting down Grindr?

Jordan Catalano said: "...

while I’m stuck here at home because it’s something concrete to look forward to and I think we could all use something like that right about now. "

All due respect (for real), but while we definitely need things to look forward to, I think we all might need to change the parameters of what that means for the immediate future. For example, I spent a few hours this weekend rescheduling 3 or 4 of the (dozen or so) shows I had planned for the next month... before I finally realized that not only was there a good chance that those shows might not yet be back up and running in time for my new dates in late April-early May, but that (since so many of them are limited engagements only scheduled to run from March through June or so), there was a better-than-decent chance they might just never reopen at all. (Or at least not in time for this spring/summer/season.)

I hate to say it, but I do agree with the posters above that we need to recalibrate our thinking re: shows being ready to see by -next- May, not this one. And then, if theatre reopens and life as we know it resumes by this Halloween, or midsummer, or even Labor Day, it’ll seem like a happy surprise. But to schedule and plan things at this point for only 2 months from now feels just as foolish as buying tickets for The Lehman Trilogy or The Minutes for 2 months from now - likely as not it’ll be time wasted, and all the checking your watch and looking at the calendar between now and then as dates inevitably get pushed back will just feel like (forgive the colloquial phrase) Chinese water torture. I hope I’m wrong. But while navigating our lives at a standstill, I’d say better to prepare for the worst and then possibly (hopefully) be pleasantly surprised, than to plan for best-case scenarios and more than likely be disappointed again.

Jordan Catalano said: "Well, I already have the tickets and everything reserved so - with all due respect - I already said I’m under no illusion the trip will happen, but while I’m stuck at home, and until I get the email that they’re canceled it’s something to look forward to. So - with all due respect - let people just have their silly fantasies right now. Doesn’t hurt you at all. "

Fair enough. And I really do hope ALL our silly fantasies come to pass!... yours, mine, and everyone else who’s been planning for or looking forward to anything at all in this crazy time.

Sutton Ross said: "A leaked report from Dump's advisors says this could last up to 18 months so....

The endless daily threads of "when" "how looooong" equate to children in the back of a car screaming "are we there yet"?. This is awful for all of us, nobody wants to just stay home for months.It's uncomfortable and it sucks, but that is just our new reality."

Is this what you were referring to?

https://news.yahoo.com/u-virus-plan-anticipates-18-190626012.html

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is expecting to be closed until July. Broadway needs to rip the April 12th band-aid off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/arts/design/met-museu.-coronavirus-closure.html

Updated On: 3/19/20 at 11:27 AM