Canceled Because of Coronavirus: A Brief List

Widespread closings were announced throughout Europe this week. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy announced on Monday that public gatherings were banned and that people would be allowed to travel only for work or for emergencies. Even church services are prohibited.

Ireland’s government canceled all St. Patrick’s Day parades, including Dublin’s. (Boston, which has a robust Irish-American population, canceled its parade, too.) Several places in Germany, including Berlin, closed all state theaters, concert halls and opera houses. Austria banned indoor gatherings of more than 100 people.

The Auschwitz Memorial said on Wednesday that it would be closed until March 25.

Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has asked the organizers of sports and cultural events to consider postponing or canceling them. Tokyo’s Nakameguro district canceled its Cherry Blossom Festival. The Japan National Tourism Organization is maintaining a list of attractions and events that have been canceled.

Austin, Texas, canceled the 34th-annual South by Southwest festival after tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, withdrew their participation. The sprawling music, tech and film festival was to run from March 13 to 22, with events planned throughout bars and party spaces across the city, and at a convention center. Festival organizers have said that they did not have insurance to cover cancellation by pandemics or communicable disease, and that they would be laying off a third of their full-time staff.

One of the largest rodeos in the world, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, was shut down on Wednesday, a week into the event. The rodeo, which was to run through March 22, features bull and horse riding and an exhibition of cattle, pigs, llamas and other animals, among other activities. It regularly draws tens of thousands of people every day.

The Tucson Festival of Books, which was planned for March 14 and 15, was also canceled. The book festival is one of the biggest in the country and usually draws over 100,000 people to Tucson, Ariz. The Los Angeles Times postponed its 25th-annual Festival of Books, originally scheduled to take place next month on the University of Southern California campus, until October.

The organizers of the giant Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which takes place in the picturesque desert of Southern California and is seen as a bellwether for the multibillion-dollar touring industry, have postponed the festival until October.

Hollywood has been watching the spread of the virus closely, and expecting a major impact on box office sales. In one of the industry’s first significant responses, the producers of the latest movie in the James Bond franchise, “No Time to Die,” announced they would move its release from April to November.

In the first major cancellations of the presidential race because of concerns about the coronavirus, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called off campaign events in Cleveland on Tuesday. Ohio has three confirmed cases of the virus, and Gov. Mike DeWine has called for limiting public gatherings.

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https://www.nytimes.com/article/cancelled-events-coronavirus.html

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The biggest question in the sports world is the Tokyo Olympics, set to begin in July. Japan and the International Olympic Committee have said the Games will go on, but there have been discussions about a worst-case scenario: holding competitions without spectators. That approach will be used when the torch for the Tokyo Games is lit in Olympia, Greece, on Thursday.

Many international sporting events have been postponed, including Six Nations and Women’s Six Nations rugby matches that had been scheduled for February and March, and the Hong Kong and Singapore Sevens.

Others have taken place with major changes, like the Tokyo Marathon, which was restricted to elite runners. Formula One has said that its upcoming Grand Prix in Bahrain will be closed to spectators, while the Chinese Grand Prix, which had been scheduled for April, was postponed.

Italy and Iran, which are contending with major outbreaks, have canceled sporting events, and Greece barred spectators for a two-week period. Professional soccer games in Spain and Portugal will also take place in empty stadiums for at least two weeks, officials said on Tuesday. A day earlier, FIFA said it would postpone the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

The BNP Paribas Open, a major tennis tournament that was scheduled to take place in Indian Wells, Calif., beginning this week, was canceled after local health officials declared a public health emergency in the Coachella Valley because of a locally acquired case of the coronavirus.

Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League have limited locker room access to only players and essential team staff members.

Many businesses and professional organizations postponed or canceled conferences, including the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which had organized a global health conference scheduled to take place in Orlando, Fla. President Trump had been among the scheduled speakers.

Google canceled its I/O developer event near Palo Alto, Calif., which was scheduled for May. The company usually announces new products and developments at the event.

The New York International Auto Show that was scheduled for April has been postponed. The show is now scheduled to run Aug. 28 to Sept. 6.

The quad at Columbia University’s main campus on Monday. The university canceled classes on Monday and Tuesday, and said that classes would be taught remotely for the rest of the week.

Schools in Italy, Iran, China, South Korea, Japan and elsewhere have been closed because of the outbreak.

This week, many American educational institutions announced they would also cancel classes. In one of the most far-reaching decisions, Harvard ordered all undergraduate students to move out of their dormitories by March 15 and said it would conduct all classes online through the spring semester.

New York University, the University of Florida, Ohio State University, Columbia University and Princeton University were among the schools that announced they would move to online instruction.

Double thanks, baker!

>>8379091

but $5 each for floor seats to an NBA Gatorade League this weekend is hard to pass up

So much for the big plot to have her reintroduced as Biden's VP!

Michelle Obama cancels get-out-the-vote rally because of coronavirus concerns

A get-out-the-vote rally with Michelle Obama is getting canceled due to coronavirus fears.

The former first lady was poised to be on hand on March 27 at the kickoff rally for When We All Vote in Detroit.

In a Wednesday message, the organization — a nonpartisan group that works to increase voter participation across the country — told supporters that the decision to nix the event was made "out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety of attendees and individuals traveling to Detroit."

Organizers noted that there are no confirmed causes of the coronavirus in the Michigan city.

The nonprofit said it would "explore options to reschedule" the planned rally.

Obama launched When We All Vote in 2018 with the aim of promoting voter participation. She signed on a number of celebrities to serve as fellow co-chairs for the effort, including "Hamilton's" Lin-Manuel Miranda, country music stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, and singer Janelle Monae.

The United States has seen more than 800 cases and at least 28 deaths since tracking of the coronavirus began in late January, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/486984-michelle-obama-cancels-get-out-the-vote-rally-because-of

>>8379225

ISA show (SignExpo) moved from April to late August 2020, will remain in Orlando.

Given the latest developments with COVID-19, the ISA Board and staff were not confident we could deliver the exceptional experience the industry deserves. 20,000+ attendees, MANY exhibitors from China.

Are they happy now?? FFS.

Stock market crash puts Trump even further behind Obama in overall gains

March 11, 2020 11:00 AM EST

We all know a certain president likes to talk of having the "best" stock market. And, as such, Fortune has periodically compared market performance under Trump and Obama over comparable periods of time.

With markets down sharply in February and early March but then moving back up a bit, we again wondered how things are stacking up vis-à-vis 44 and 45. In this round, we compared the period between Inauguration Day and March 10 for Trump's administration and Barack Obama's first term.

[subscription wall] https://fortune.com/2020/03/11/obama-trump-stock-market-us-economy/

>>8379377

Yea, we're thinking that's probably a good hunch.

Trump Administration to Delay April 15 Tax Deadline for Most Individuals

Tax filing extension would be part of broader fiscal stimulus effort

The Trump administration plans to delay the April 15 tax deadline for most individual taxpayers as well as small businesses as part of an effort to mitigate the effects of the spread of the novel coronavirus, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.

Mr. Mnuchin said the delay would apply “to virtually all Americans, other than the super rich,” and said officials would likely announce a decision quickly.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-treasury-likely-to-push-back-april-15-tax-filing-deadline-sources-11583897351

[please be true, we owe this year…]

>>8379456

thank you anon, yes, notable big time. i can't get past the firewall for the entire story.

>>8379464

how precious you are, little one. that's right, keep your positive outlook, sweetie, we're counting on you to lead the charge up the hill with your winning attitude!

>>8379512

thanks so much, very kind of you!

The Treasury doesn't need Congress to approve the delay, and it can be done on an administrative basis. Fantastic.

The extension would go beyond the regular mid-October extension date. But would we have to "prove" that CV was the reason we couldn't pay on time? Hmmmm….

>>8379542

Confirmed via WH Press Pool reporter

Trump to make statement tonight from the Oval Office

https://www.thepavlovictoday.com/author/The%20White%20House%20Press%20Pool/

POTUS making live remarks from meeting with Wall Street execs right now.

>>8379636

Owe me a joke!

Hunter Biden Reaches Final Child Support Settlement After Months Of Stonewalling

Hunter Biden reached a final child support settlement with the mother of his Arkansas child on Tuesday night just hours after being pilloried by a judge for seeking yet another delay in the matter, according to court documents.

Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, had told Circuit Judge Holly Meyer on Tuesday that he was unable to attend a child support deposition scheduled this week due to coronavirus, his pregnant wife’s imminent due date and the “intense media scrutiny” surrounding the case.

“The court has reviewed the history of this litigation and finds that the Defendant has been given considerable leniency regarding continuances and delay,” Meyer wrote in a response to Hunter Biden on Tuesday afternoon ordering him to be physically present in Arkansas for a deposition Wednesday and a court hearing Friday.

“The defendant’s attempts to delay this case are mounting such that one begins to see a pattern of delay,” Meyer wrote, noting that Hunter Biden has filed four motions for continuance, been granted four delays in submitting financial documents for discovery and has had his deposition delayed three times.

On Wednesday morning, lawyers for the mother of his child, Lunden Alexis Roberts, told Meyer in an email that a “global, final settlement of all issues” was reached late Tuesday night.

If the settlement is approved by the court, Hunter Biden would succeed in keeping much of his finances secret from the court.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/11/hunter-biden-final-child-support/

>>8379701

HA! Never heard it before. Advance to the head of the class.

>>8379733

Someone must be paying for this on his behalf. He has a sponsor somewhere who is paying him to keep quiet so daddy wins. Interdashing.