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ETA: I'm just jealous. They are skipping MoranJortsville this year. My favorite show of last year. You are going to have the best time.
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Despite Exene's recent descent into bat shittery I would still love to go see X.
Mass MOCA in North Adams on a Friday night...
You just reminded me that my wife and I were going to see Bikini Kill... were.revbob wrote: ↑18 Mar 2020, 12:50pmThanks Flex. Web simulcasts are cool but obviously not as good as a live in person show. Like you and I marveled, they managed to keep a good atmosphere going while not having any physical audience.
Im not disappointed about missing the Social Distortion tribute act but this is likely to carry on into Bikini Kill and Gogol Bordello.
That's what I'm here for.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑18 Mar 2020, 1:09pmYou just reminded me that my wife and I were going to see Bikini Kill... were.revbob wrote: ↑18 Mar 2020, 12:50pmThanks Flex. Web simulcasts are cool but obviously not as good as a live in person show. Like you and I marveled, they managed to keep a good atmosphere going while not having any physical audience.
Im not disappointed about missing the Social Distortion tribute act but this is likely to carry on into Bikini Kill and Gogol Bordello.
I was gonna post this in the Rona Doom Thread, but hell here's where it's coming up organically: this is why we desperately, desperately, need a ramp up in testing. The model that works on to combat the virus without completely obliterating the social and economic fabric is widespread, ubiquitous testing and carefully targeted localized quarantines. Our total national shutdown could have, believe it or not, been avoided if not for the Trump Administration's deliberate attempts to hamper our ability ramp up testing nationwide. We actually could have a scenario where we loosen some social distancing restrictions in (relative) short order (as in, maybe after a couple months rather than 12-18 months) but we need massive, massive testing capability (and, to my mixed reaction, much better centralized surveillance and tracking to be able to effectively determine quarantine needs). Our health care and distribution is so poor and eroded over time that this was always going to be a massive push for this country, but actually mobilizing the federal government to create capacity could still save both many lives and livelihoods.
If this impending healthcare catastrophe doesn't generate serious anger for universal health insurance, I'm not sure what will. Biden may win the nomination, but he'll be forced by events to move much more to the left than anyone would have dreamed.Flex wrote: ↑18 Mar 2020, 1:24pmI was gonna post this in the Rona Doom Thread, but hell here's where it's coming up organically: this is why we desperately, desperately, need a ramp up in testing. The model that works on to combat the virus without completely obliterating the social and economic fabric is widespread, ubiquitous testing and carefully targeted localized quarantines. Our total national shutdown could have, believe it or not, been avoided if not for the Trump Administration's deliberate attempts to hamper our ability ramp up testing nationwide. We actually could have a scenario where we loosen some social distancing restrictions in (relative) short order (as in, maybe after a couple months rather than 12-18 months) but we need massive, massive testing capability (and, to my mixed reaction, much better centralized surveillance and tracking to be able to effectively determine quarantine needs). Our health care and distribution is so poor and eroded over time that this was always going to be a massive push for this country, but actually mobilizing the federal government to create capacity could still save both many lives and livelihoods.
It's been a perfect storm of long term community and structural erosion and acute contemporaneous incompetence that's created the situation we're in now. It's very much didn't have to be like this.
Quite. Postponed rather than completely cancelled, so fingers crossed it will be the same support bands when it is rearranged.