CNN is covering the concert in NYC tomorrow, and this morning started their unreasonably large....

[George II]

...."countdown clock" in the left bottom corner. I first saw it at ab out 31:30:00, so we're going to have to look at that for the next 31 hours, second by excruciating second.

How stupid it that?

[comradebillyboy]

1. Too much time watching CNN George. The wife and I

have been watching Midsomer Murders from the first episode as well as all the Inspector Morse episodes from the beginning. Beats watching CNN and their ilk flog the same three stories around the clock. The streaming services are a godsend in our retirement.

[George II]

2. I'll be outside working pretty soon - need a few hours in the morning for the joints to work right.

[Blecht]

3. I can think of one way you won't have to look at it

But only if there is a way to change the channel on your TV.

Better yet, find the power button.

[48656c6c6f20]

4. Thank God, make it bigger!

I don't want to miss EW&F.

[Treefrog]

5. Advertising a superspreader event while reporting the pandemic.

Mind -blowing.

[sheshe2]

6. This 😷😷😷

I agree ☝️

[Initech]

12. Results from Lollapalooza: not a super spreader.

https://abc7chicago.com/covid-lollapalooza-outbreak-super-spreader/10946665/

I personally have no problem with outdoor concerts now. I'm actually going to one tomorrow night.

[Treefrog]

13. 27 % of young people of color are vaccinated in NY.

That seems a problem to me.

Lollapalooza had stringent requirements, not that I believed in them.

Have fun!

[George II]

16. Looking at many of the groups, the crowd will probably be dominated by middle-aged white people.

[sheshe2]

7. Sounds to me like tropical storm Henri ...

May rain on their parade.

[Treefrog]

9. Ha, didn't think of that!

[sheshe2]

11. 😆

Serves them right… It’s a dumbass idea to be having a massive concert amidst a pandemic.😷

[George II]

17. The timing looks perfect. I wonder if they have any cancellation plans? You're probably too young...

....to remember the Diana Ross fiasco in 1983. Tomorrow night could be exactly the same.

Driving rain, lashing winds and lightning forced Diana Ross to cut short her concert in Central Park last night with hundreds of thousands of her fans sprawled before her on the Great Lawn.

Miss Ross, who had been singing for about 25 minutes on an open stage before the rain began falling, tried to continue the performance.

But as the storm intensified and thunderclaps resounded across the park, drenched fans started streaming toward the exits. Miss Ross, dripping wet in an orange sequin bodysuit, kept singing, and between songs urged the crowd to leave slowly and not to panic. Finally, at about 7:15, she finished singing ''Muscles'' and left the stage.

The storm disrupted electrical power to nearly 40,000 homes in the metropolitan area for more than two hours. Areas of Long Island and New Jersey were hardest hit by the storm, which knocked down power lines and trees and delayed air travel and commuter trains. (Page B2.)

Miss Ross ''was magnificent in calming the crowd and gradually emptying the Great Lawn,'' said Henry J. Stern, the City Commissioner of Parks and Recreation.

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/22/nyregion/a-singer-a-throng-in-central-park-a-deluge.html

[sheshe2]

18. Dunno.

After watching the noon news, if it hits them like it is hitting us, it won't be pretty.

[snowybirdie]

8. Anyone else

think a large concert, although in Central Park, packed with yelling, screaming people, just might be dangerous? Sort of like Bush's "Mission Accomplished" banner.

[Treefrog]

10. Yup.

[a kennedy]

14. and let's not even begin to think of the all COVID infected people that will be there.....🤬 🤬 🤬

[George II]

15. CNN must have gotten the message. I just switched because I like Ana Cabrera, their clock is gone!