Re: COVID-19 News and Discussions
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 10:32 am
That's great, if Covid-19 is headed for a common cold virus.Mutation rate of Covid19 virus is at least 50 per cent higher than previously thought
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That's great, if Covid-19 is headed for a common cold virus.Mutation rate of Covid19 virus is at least 50 per cent higher than previously thought
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/unite ... ar-AAOjoLHUnited Airlines told employees that they will be placed on indefinite unpaid leave if they refuse to get a Covid vaccine for religious reasons.
The company's vaccine mandate is much tougher than those imposed by many other companies, or the ones announced by President Joe Biden Thursday. The federal mandate, and many already announced at other companies, give employees a choice between getting vaccinated or getting weekly Covid tests. At United, it's essentially vaccination or termination.
Although United is granting accommodations for employees who have a valid medical or religious reason not to get vaccinated, it disclosed this week there would be costs for those who cite their religious belief as a reason not to be vaccinated.
Last November, the movie business was in desperate need of good news when an unlikely savior appeared in “The Croods: A New Age.”
At a time when many movie theaters were closed, DreamWorks Animation’s sequel about a family of outspoken cave men defied the vaccine-less moment and opened strongly in a reduced number of venues, selling an average of nearly 800 tickets at each screen. The data sent a clear and reassuring message: No matter what hurdles moviegoing faced, it could always count on family films.
Nearly 10 months later, a tougher reality is unfolding: People have stopped buying tickets to family films. In a striking development, the great all-ages unifier of American pop culture is struggling.
Over this past summer, these family-friendly movies arrived — “The Boss Baby: Family Business” and “Spirit Untamed,” “Paw Patrol: The Movie” and “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” And, one by one, they went, attracting just a small fraction of the usual ticket buyers — sometimes even smaller than the titles aimed at older audiences in a dismal box-office summer. No family film this year has exceeded $100 million in domestic receipts. In 2019, 11 of them did.
Yeah, I've been thinking deeply about this as well. I realized all of this is to be expected. Yep, you heard it. It was ALL TO BE EXPECTED. As it turns out, we were never a species apart from the rest. We are just one of the millions out there. See those apes? See how generally stupid they are? We're their cousins and there is next to no difference between us. Having a larger prefontal cortex than them doesn't put the distance between us as much as we think it does - it's purely ego to think it does.