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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Jagdaddy said:
I don't know that. But most people who lose their jobs don't commit suicide. Much like the virus for many who "die from it", losing his job might well have been the straw that broke an already weakened camel's back, in which case it may be as reasonable to attribute the suicide to that as it is to attribute the death of someone with comorbidities to the virus (albeit the former requires a bit more of a leap to make the connection). I'm just pointing out that preexisting biases lean people to weight confounding variables differently in the two cases.

Also the friend losing his job might, or might not, have been a result of government action. Many people were, to a degree at least, going to be hunkering down without stay at home orders. Does the guy still get to rage at the "faux high-ground" people if the friend lost his job just because those people limited their patronage of his employer's business of their own volition in accordance with their own risk tolerance? I also think that there are businesses (especially the big publicly held multinationals) that are or will, with government ramping up unemployment compensation, use "the government shutdown" as an excuse to trim some employee fat from their payrolls, automate more, etc.
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Bingo.
 
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scarletmike said:
It's actually relatively trivial to make broadcast quality content at home, especially when the equipment/software you need is a relative drop in the bucket and you probably have most of it from when you made your own content before you hit it big or after your peak touring/studio days were over. Just look at the meteorologists for some local and national stations with their full setups at home, green screen and all. The only thing a celebrity may need to borrow is a broadcast camera, but really there's plenty of prosumer cameras out there more than capable of broadcast quality.

Just hit record and then send the file off to the skeleton crew in the studio controls keeping the programming running from all the remote feeds, you may or may not have to do some/all of the editing, but that's not too difficult either.
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Yeah, and they all use the same piano music, so that simplifies things.
 
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scarletmike said:
It's actually relatively trivial to make broadcast quality content at home, especially when the equipment/software you need is a relative drop in the bucket and you probably have most of it from when you made your own content before you hit it big or after your peak touring/studio days were over. Just look at the meteorologists for some local and national stations with their full setups at home, green screen and all. The only thing a celebrity may need to borrow is a broadcast camera, but really there's plenty of prosumer cameras out there more than capable of broadcast quality.

Just hit record and then send the file off to the skeleton crew in the studio controls keeping the programming running from all the remote feeds, you may or may not have to do some/all of the editing, but that's not too difficult either.
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Its the hair and makeup that suffer. I won't name names.
 
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