Gigging Musicians and COVID-19?

[Rayblewit]

Faced with all this death and disruption a few cancelled gigs is pretty meaningless.

Yes indeed Col.
If we all stay at home now for a few weeks it will eliminate the chance for the virus to spread. It will eventually die off and we can all get our lives back sooner.
Cancelled gigs are a minor part of the whole picture. If we don't stay home for awhile, then gigs will be off the agenda for a long time.
But if we STAY HOME now we will be enjoy the gigs sooner than later.

STAY HOME

 

[happyrat1]

If we all stay at home now for a few weeks it will eliminate the chance for the virus to spread. It will eventually die off and we can all get our lives back sooner.

This is a simplistic and overly optimistic view of the situation.

The fact is that the famous bell curve charts that everyone has seen on TV are actually an attenuating sine wave.

Forced lockdown will reduce the spread of cases in the short run, but the second we drop our vigilance and try to go back to "normal" new infections wil begin to surge again requiring a return to a lockdown state until IF and when a vaccine is developed and widely employed.

Seriously folks, don't count your chickens too soon.

This is likely to play itself out well into the next year.

It's going to be a tough year for everyone, both clinically as well as economically and governments so far are trying their best to soften the blow without causing any further panic.

In the US right now the hottest selling items are toilet paper and firearms.

Go figger

Gary

 

[Biggles]

Chill-out, buddy. No offense was intended.

Donald is the president of the United States. He claimed the whole thing was a democratic hoax, until it finally began to hit him that it was a serious issue. By then it was almost too late. Too late to act, too late to prevent major disruption to our society.

And it is far more than "a few canceled gigs." If your income depends on those few canceled gigs, then you have no income, like me, zero! Fortunately I'm doing okay financially, but most of my musician friends are not. So a few canceled gigs is a freaking big deal for them. They still have to have a place to live and make a car payment and eat.

No offence taken.

We see it as Trump is Trump, he seems to be fed by armies of money grabbing cronies hell bent on lining their own corporate coffers, not that you guys had much choice at election time.

Over here in the UK, Boris the Bad is buffoning his way through the crisis but even the idiots he has advising him and the Government got it badly wrong, as typical Governments listen to the wrong advisors.

We have seen time and time again sluggish response by successive USA Governments everytime that there has been a disaster, ie New Orleans, Nashville, hurricane Katrina and the freeway collapse on the San Andreas fault.

It seems that very few Governments are capable of having effective disaster management plans in place, Governments including Presidents and Prime Ministers all over the world (at least the civilised ones) are in place to undertake the will of the people and not for their own financial gain.

Finally

We have a friend in Spain who has health issues despite being many, many years younger than I, so imagine what he is going through knowing that his next door neighbour has just died of Coronavirus.

 

[Biggles]

This is a simplistic and overly optimistic view of the situation.

The fact is that the famous bell curve charts that everyone has seen on TV are actually an attenuating sine wave.

Forced lockdown will reduce the spread of cases in the short run, but the second we drop our vigilance and try to go back to "normal" new infections wil begin to surge again requiring a return to a lockdown state until IF and when a vaccine is developed and widely employed.

Seriously folks, don't count your chickens too soon.

This is likely to play itself out well into the next year.

It's going to be a tough year for everyone, both clinically as well as economically and governments so far are trying their best to soften the blow without causing any further panic.

In the US right now the hottest selling items are toilet paper and firearms.

Go figger

Gary

You are so right with this.