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Right in the middle of today's White House Coronavirus briefing I saw this news bulletin that Universal, the studio not the theme park, was announcing that their new release films starting this Friday, will go directly to stream as well as theater. Well, since no more than 10 people can gather together in any venue and orders are out to specifically/temporarily close down movie theaters, the 10-person order is moot. Movie theaters are closed all over the U.S. So you couldn't see new films there if you wanted to. You will now buy the movie stream for all new films through various streaming services only. Okay, what does this mean? It means what has been looming on the horizon for awhile, the projection of movies in movie theaters is doomed, dying, and soon will be over. The other day, before the madness began, my wife and I saw in Walmart an eighty-two inch 4K monitor for under $700. Get a $150 Sound Bar and you have a great system. The other studios will follow ...

HOUR BY HOUR THE SITUATION IS CHANGING, GETTING WORSE This is my take on what is going on with the Coronavirus sitch. Below is a message I just sent to a friend: The President's speech tonight...NBA is shutting down the season...Angela Merkel told the German Parliament that up to 70% of German Population is going to get the virus, that's 50 million people...over 2,000 new cases alone in Italy. This is some serious shit that is going on. Do you have emergency supplies, are you stocking up? I hope so. Just heard that Tom Hanks and his wife both have contracted the virus, they are in Australia but you know that everyone in Hollywood who has interacted with him in the last month are going to try to remember how close they have been to him and his wife in the last month. And we hear from the CDC this is going to get worse. Damn. This is biblical in its nature and scope. I hope you are making some preparations and are stalking up with supplies. I suggest you go to corona...

STORM MOVING IN 11:00am MST 3/9/20 The Dow is now down almost 2,000 points...in a single friggin day. The bottom has dropped out of the oil market. Corona confirmed cases at 111,400 and deaths at 3,842. States around the U.S. and the world declaring States of Emergency. Schools and Universities closing down. Fed may take us down to ZERO percent. Even the old men and women of the Congress considering shutting down for awhile. And on and on... This is nutso. What is going on? Is this God's retribution or just a lot of bad shit hitting all at once. All of us should not panic. I was going to say we should go about our every day business but that is becoming more difficult. We went yesterday to our local WalMart, we are here in southern Arizona, and there was crowds, pushing, cutting-off, grabbing for items with a vengeance, and just an overall bad attitude of most people in the store, even the cashiers. Major events where crowds of people gather are shutting do...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/health/epa-disinfectants-coronavirus-trnd/index.html As a public service here is a list of some of the disinfectants that the EPA recommends to kill the Coronavirus that is of such great public interest these days: Here are some of the registered disinfectants on the EPA's list : Clorox Multi Surface Cleaner + Bleach Clorox Disinfecting Wipes Clorox Commercial Solutions® Clorox® Disinfecting Spray Lysol brand Heavy-Duty Cleaner Disinfectant Concentrate Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist Lysol brand Clean & Fresh Multi-Surface Cleaner Purell Professional Surface Disinfectant Wipes Sani-Prime Germicidal Spray The link of above will take you to the full CNN article and at the bottom of the article you will see a link that will take you to the full EPA list. It is long, dominated by Clorox and Lysol products...no surprise there. My take on the whole virus issue? Yet more proof that we are not in control of this planet. ...

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