Since this is (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic crisis, I felt it would be fitting to memorialize in pictures the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on daily life.
(I know it will be large – but we should feel the impact of it.)
JFK Airport:
Dodgers Spring Baseball Game:
Madison Square Garden Last Night (NBA Season Now Canceled):
Soccer Game in Europe:
Louvre, Paris:
String Quartet Concert, Venice:
Duomo Cathedral Piazza, Milan:
Pigeons gather on Piazza del Duomo by Milan’s cathedral on March 10, 2020 in Milan. – Italy imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people on March 10, 2020 to control the deadly coronavirus, as China signalled major progress in its own battle against the global epidemic. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)
Galleria Shopping Center, Milan:
TOPSHOT – A general view shows a woman walk across the deserted Vittorio Emanuele II galleria shopping mall on March 10, 2020 in Milan. – Italy imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people on March 10, 2020 to control the deadly coronavirus, as China signalled major progress in its own battle against the global epidemic. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)
Paper Products Section, Costco:
A customer walks past mostly empty shelves that normally hold toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco store in Teterboro, N.J., Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Ginza Shopping District, Tokyo:
TOKYO, JAPAN – FEBRUARY 26 2020 Virus frightens visitors at Japan’s shopping district of Ginza. Image of empty street in the heart of the luxury hub of the capital.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Massimo Rumi / Barcroft Studios / Future Publishing (Photo credit should read Massimo Rumi/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Super-Highway, Hong Kong:
St. Peter’s Square, Rome:
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN – MARCH 8: A view of empty chairs at St Peter’s Square before the live-broadcasting of Pope Francis’ Sunday Angelus prayer during the Coronavirus emergency, on March 8, 2020 in Vatican City, Vatican. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the closure of the Italian region of Lombardy in an attempt to stop the ongoing coronavirus epidemic in the Italian country. The number of confirmed cases of the Coronavirus COVID-19 disease in Italy has jumped up to at least 5,883, while the death toll has surpassed 230. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
Church Pews:
Mecca:
TOPSHOT – An aerial view shows an empty white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, on March 6, 2020. – An eerie emptiness enveloped the sacred Kaaba in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site, where attendance at Friday prayers was hit by measures to protect against the deadly new coronavirus. (Photo by Bandar ALDANDANI / AFP) (Photo by BANDAR ALDANDANI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Very telling, lonely, and sad pictures.
AISD TX (Austin Independent School District) has cancelled ALL classes for all of their schools. Bastrop..on the other hand has kept our schools open. Spring break starts the end of day.
The latest updates on coronavirus in Texas: Community spread of coronavirus has hit Texas. There have been at least 49 known cases in the state — 11 identified at a federal quarantine site at Lackland Air Force Base and 38 elsewhere. You can learn more about how — and why — we’re covering this public health crisis here.
*https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03/11/coronavirus-texas-updates-community-spread-school-cancellations/
You could also have included the Metropolitan Opera, which is cancelled through March 31st. (There will be a radio broadcast Saturday, but it will be a recording from a previous season.) But then, you could have included anywhere in the world. Except maybe the White House. Or maybe Mar-a-Lago.
Speaking of long, this video is 56 minutes (and there is CC but it’s less than perfect – it can’t tell the differece between 1918 and 1980). It starts with the 1918 flu epidemic and why is was what it was, then moves on to avenues scientists are going down, the ultimate goal being a universal viral vaccine. It was made in the year of the H1N1 pandemic so it’s a bit dated, but yo’re still likely to learn something, if you can get through it.
Read the book, “The Great Influenza”, author: John M. Barry.
I will definitely take time to watch the video.
Thanks, Joanne for getting this out here.
Your collection of graphics boggles the mind!
Just wild!
The morning commute, in N.Y.C., today, had empty subway cars aplenty.
Disturbing and depressing pictures, they will be part of our history now.
But remember that these are pictures after precaution measures, not after COVID-19 has abated. The people normally walking these venues are still around. China-correspondents are now coming out with videos and pictures of the Wuhan province where major cities are slowly coming out of lock-down and life is returning to normal. The government has ordered factories to start production again and workers to go back to work. Their government’s drastic measures worked.
I hope these pictures will soon bear witness of measures that worked and saved most citizens of these countries, young and old, rich and poor.
All of these empty places mean money not being spent, jobs not being done, wages not being earned. Then again, they do mean lives being saved. We may have over-reacted to the threat, but sometimes it is better to over-react than under-react.
The economic repercussions will be felt for years to come.
Before the reduction to 250 from some local reductions at 1000 max on gatherings, BART ridership down 35% (over $1 million a day revenue)…most populous areas have school closures, some early colleges going on-line were UC campuses–our local community college added it this week…my county has zero confirmed cases yet given we are a part of a metro area with a couple deaths, etc., I consider absence of test results a contributing factor given the test kits missing reagent for utility.
NY state, along with other states, have the 250 limit–so Broadway shows are cancelled. MN’s twin cities have been cancelling performances and one orchestra performance this week was solely available via radio.
Not sure how empty things would be here since I began such practices over 10 days ago and had already only done errands at times I expected to be virtually alone in doing so.
The length of time the virus lives on cardboard, plastic, etc. means having packages delivered pretty safe–gloves, wipe before opening–as long as not same day delivery.
Thanks Nameless
Have you seen the remake of “On the Beach”? That’s what it makes me think of. Haunting images and thoughts.
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Wow….Depressing seeing all of these photos of the areas being vacant.
I bought a 10 Padres Baseball package for 10 games. The first one we go to is in May, because of my post surgery restrictions.They sent the tickets Friday, but now with them cancelling the season opener and a few more games, it makes us wonder if they are going to still go by the schedule or push every game back?
I feel for the SDSU basketball team that was having a winning season and looking forward to playing in the March Madness games. Now it’s been totally cancelled.
Thanks Nameless