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Michael Ejercito
Jun 15, 2021, 8:04:00 AM6/15/21
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Covid: Delay to full reopening a hammer blow, says live event sector
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Coronavirus pandemic
media captionLondon’s Cuckoo Club 'facing extinction' after lockdown
easing delay
Live music, theatre and other events have been dealt a "hammer blow" by
a four-week delay to the final stage of easing lockdown restrictions in
England, industry figures have said.
The move means the capacity of venues will remain limited by the
requirements around social distancing.
The entertainment sector has appealed for urgent financial support.
The Society of London Theatre said the decision would "have serious
implications for many theatres".
And the Night Time Industries Association said the PM had "switched the
lights off for an entire sector".
Boris Johnson told a press conference on Monday the delay to lifting
most remaining curbs on social contact was necessary to avoid "a real
possibility that the virus will outrun the vaccines and that thousands
more deaths would ensue which could otherwise have been avoided".
Lockdown easing in England to be delayed
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What are the lockdown rules we still have to live with?
What will delaying the full unlock achieve?
The government's planned date for lifting restrictions - 21 June - has
now been pushed back until 19 July, amid rising Covid cases driven by
the more transmissible Delta variant.
But the prime minister said there would be a review after two weeks and
he was "confident" the delay would not need to be longer than four weeks.
Audience at The Show Must Go On
IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERS
image captionFans recently attended a West End performance titled The
Show Must Go On
Many in the entertainment industry said they understood the need for the
delay, but called for further government support.
Mark Davyd, chief executive of the Music Venues Trust, said the
government should take "swift and robust" action to prevent hundreds of
potential grassroots music venue closures.
He said this should include "getting financial support to people who
desperately need it, extending repayment options for loans, cancelling
business rates and extending support schemes such as furlough and SEISS
[the self-employment income support scheme]".
The Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre said there were "thousands
of jobs hanging in the balance" as producers make the "difficult
decision" of whether to start rehearsals for shows that are due to open
later this summer.
"Particularly at risk are large-scale commercial productions, which have
received little or no Cultural Recovery Fund support and cannot survive
under social distancing," a statement said.
'West End farce'
Trafalgar Entertainment's Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire,
who have two major musicals due to open in London in late July, said the
delay was "yet another bungle" from the government.
"The confusion and muddled messages are reminiscent of a West End
farce," they said in a statement.
Meanwhile, UK Cinema Association said it was "mindful of the rationale
behind today's decision" and acknowledged many cinemas "can still
operate viably at below full occupancy", but that they would "continue
to face significant challenges as they look to recover from the enormous
financial impacts of Covid".
Lucy Noble, chair of the National Arenas Association, said the delay was
"devastating", while trade association Live said the industry had been
left "in limbo".
Sir Ian McKellen
IMAGE COPYRIGHTSEAN GLEASON
Sir Ian McKellen, who is due to star in Hamlet from 21 June, said the
fact theatres cannot play to full houses was "very, very frustrating".
"Thank goodness I'm not the producer, who must be wondering what to do,
because you sold an awful lot of tickets and people may have to shift to
other dates," he told the BBC's The One Show.
"I think they were warned in advance that might happen.
"It's a lot of trouble, but there's no doubt, a week today, we open up
Hamlet at the Theatre Royal Windsor as planned, but it will be social
distancing for a little bit longer than we'd hoped."
Gillian Lynne Theatre London
IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES
image captionAndrew Lloyd Webber has pledged to open Cinderella at the
Gillian Lynne Theatre in London
However, there could be hope for some in the sector as fifteen
coronavirus pilot events are to continue as planned before 19 July,
including some arts and music performances.
On Monday, the PM suggested Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Cinderella
may be able to join the scheme, after the composer said he was prepared
to be arrested if he couldn't open as planned on 25 June.
"I think we're in talks to with him to try to make it work and we'll do
whatever we can to be helpful," the prime minister said.
But that came as a surprise to Lord Lloyd-Webber. "My goal is, and will
always be, to fight for the full and safe reopening of theatre and live
music venues up and down the country," he said.
"I was pleased and surprised to hear the prime minister mention
Cinderella as part of his announcement today, but I can't comment
further on the proposed pilot until I know more about the scheme."
Cancelled festivals
A string of music festivals planned for June and July were cancelled or
postponed after Mr Johnson's announcement.
They included the Black Deer festival in Kent, which was due to be
headlined by Van Morrison at the end of June.
Organisers of the Noisily Festival in Leicestershire wrote in a
statement: "After pouring our heart and soul into the event on a wing
and a prayer - hoping against hope - to have all of that dashed again is
beyond devastating."
Alex Hutchinson, who runs the Kubix festival in Sunderland, said his
event would no longer take place in early July.
"I think people forget there are millions of people behind these closed
industries, either directly or in the supply chains, who at the minute
can't even give a definite date to be able to resume making a living,"
he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Government support
A government spokesperson said: "We understand a delay to full reopening
is challenging for live events, and we will be helping our creative
industries through it. We have made £2bn available through the biggest
arts funding package in history and the final funding round of £300m
will be announced shortly.
"Clubs and venues have also benefited from restart grants worth £18,000
each, and there's nearly £1bn available in further discretionary grants
local authorities still have to pay out.
"The furlough scheme and VAT cut is in place until September and
eligible businesses will also continue to benefit from business rates
relief of 75% over the year."
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Covid: Delay to full reopening a hammer blow, says live event sector
Published4 hours ago
Share
Related Topics
Coronavirus pandemic
media captionLondon’s Cuckoo Club 'facing extinction' after lockdown
easing delay
Live music, theatre and other events have been dealt a "hammer blow" by
a four-week delay to the final stage of easing lockdown restrictions in
England, industry figures have said.
The move means the capacity of venues will remain limited by the
requirements around social distancing.
The entertainment sector has appealed for urgent financial support.
The Society of London Theatre said the decision would "have serious
implications for many theatres".
And the Night Time Industries Association said the PM had "switched the
lights off for an entire sector".
Boris Johnson told a press conference on Monday the delay to lifting
most remaining curbs on social contact was necessary to avoid "a real
possibility that the virus will outrun the vaccines and that thousands
more deaths would ensue which could otherwise have been avoided".
Lockdown easing in England to be delayed
One week notice 'not enough' for nightlife delay
What are the lockdown rules we still have to live with?
What will delaying the full unlock achieve?
The government's planned date for lifting restrictions - 21 June - has
now been pushed back until 19 July, amid rising Covid cases driven by
the more transmissible Delta variant.
But the prime minister said there would be a review after two weeks and
he was "confident" the delay would not need to be longer than four weeks.
Audience at The Show Must Go On
IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERS
image captionFans recently attended a West End performance titled The
Show Must Go On
Many in the entertainment industry said they understood the need for the
delay, but called for further government support.
Mark Davyd, chief executive of the Music Venues Trust, said the
government should take "swift and robust" action to prevent hundreds of
potential grassroots music venue closures.
He said this should include "getting financial support to people who
desperately need it, extending repayment options for loans, cancelling
business rates and extending support schemes such as furlough and SEISS
[the self-employment income support scheme]".
The Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre said there were "thousands
of jobs hanging in the balance" as producers make the "difficult
decision" of whether to start rehearsals for shows that are due to open
later this summer.
"Particularly at risk are large-scale commercial productions, which have
received little or no Cultural Recovery Fund support and cannot survive
under social distancing," a statement said.
'West End farce'
Trafalgar Entertainment's Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire,
who have two major musicals due to open in London in late July, said the
delay was "yet another bungle" from the government.
"The confusion and muddled messages are reminiscent of a West End
farce," they said in a statement.
Meanwhile, UK Cinema Association said it was "mindful of the rationale
behind today's decision" and acknowledged many cinemas "can still
operate viably at below full occupancy", but that they would "continue
to face significant challenges as they look to recover from the enormous
financial impacts of Covid".
Lucy Noble, chair of the National Arenas Association, said the delay was
"devastating", while trade association Live said the industry had been
left "in limbo".
Sir Ian McKellen
IMAGE COPYRIGHTSEAN GLEASON
Sir Ian McKellen, who is due to star in Hamlet from 21 June, said the
fact theatres cannot play to full houses was "very, very frustrating".
"Thank goodness I'm not the producer, who must be wondering what to do,
because you sold an awful lot of tickets and people may have to shift to
other dates," he told the BBC's The One Show.
"I think they were warned in advance that might happen.
"It's a lot of trouble, but there's no doubt, a week today, we open up
Hamlet at the Theatre Royal Windsor as planned, but it will be social
distancing for a little bit longer than we'd hoped."
Gillian Lynne Theatre London
IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES
image captionAndrew Lloyd Webber has pledged to open Cinderella at the
Gillian Lynne Theatre in London
However, there could be hope for some in the sector as fifteen
coronavirus pilot events are to continue as planned before 19 July,
including some arts and music performances.
On Monday, the PM suggested Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical Cinderella
may be able to join the scheme, after the composer said he was prepared
to be arrested if he couldn't open as planned on 25 June.
"I think we're in talks to with him to try to make it work and we'll do
whatever we can to be helpful," the prime minister said.
But that came as a surprise to Lord Lloyd-Webber. "My goal is, and will
always be, to fight for the full and safe reopening of theatre and live
music venues up and down the country," he said.
"I was pleased and surprised to hear the prime minister mention
Cinderella as part of his announcement today, but I can't comment
further on the proposed pilot until I know more about the scheme."
Cancelled festivals
A string of music festivals planned for June and July were cancelled or
postponed after Mr Johnson's announcement.
They included the Black Deer festival in Kent, which was due to be
headlined by Van Morrison at the end of June.
Organisers of the Noisily Festival in Leicestershire wrote in a
statement: "After pouring our heart and soul into the event on a wing
and a prayer - hoping against hope - to have all of that dashed again is
beyond devastating."
Alex Hutchinson, who runs the Kubix festival in Sunderland, said his
event would no longer take place in early July.
"I think people forget there are millions of people behind these closed
industries, either directly or in the supply chains, who at the minute
can't even give a definite date to be able to resume making a living,"
he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Government support
A government spokesperson said: "We understand a delay to full reopening
is challenging for live events, and we will be helping our creative
industries through it. We have made £2bn available through the biggest
arts funding package in history and the final funding round of £300m
will be announced shortly.
"Clubs and venues have also benefited from restart grants worth £18,000
each, and there's nearly £1bn available in further discretionary grants
local authorities still have to pay out.
"The furlough scheme and VAT cut is in place until September and
eligible businesses will also continue to benefit from business rates
relief of 75% over the year."
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HeartDoc Andrew
Jun 15, 2021, 8:08:23 AM6/15/21
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the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, & Delta
lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current COVID
vaccines no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2016 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://bit.ly/WonderfullyHungryPresident
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Klaus Schadenfreude
Jun 15, 2021, 8:20:49 AM6/15/21
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:** (INSERT NAME HERE) (INSERT DATE) Again praying as only a forever (Psalm 117) doctor
:can with all glory ( http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD ...
In Psalm 117, the gentiles are invited to join in praise of God.
Christians view this as a fulfillment of God's promise of mercy to the
gentiles, pointing to God's promise that all nations would be blessed
in the seed of Abraham, who they believe is Christ, as described in
the Letter to the Galatians.
O praise the Lord, all ye nations:
praise him, all ye people.
For his merciful kindness is great toward us:
and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.
Praise ye the Lord.
— Psalm 117 King James Version
Now, we all know that once the Georgia medical board discovered Andrew
Chung's mental faculties had been shot, they yanked his license to
practice medicine. Everyone knows he can't practice medicine any more,
and never WILL be able to. That's why he has his little business that
he runs out of his home [Cygnus Medical
Consultants, Inc., located at 6041 COLT RIDGE TRL SE, Suite 203,
MABLETON, GA, 30126-5715] while his wife has a real job and supports
him.
Chung psychotically claims he has a "forever" medical license, but of
course, that's just his mentally ill rambling. He has NO license to
practice medicine, and Psalm 117 doesn't even come CLOSE to supporting
his lie-- just like NONE of the Bible he quotes support any of his
lies.
Chung is now ETERNALLY CONDEMNED BY GOD and will suffer the
consequences.
Too bad. He really could have helped people had he not gone psycho and
kept his license. Oh well.
:can with all glory ( http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD ...
In Psalm 117, the gentiles are invited to join in praise of God.
Christians view this as a fulfillment of God's promise of mercy to the
gentiles, pointing to God's promise that all nations would be blessed
in the seed of Abraham, who they believe is Christ, as described in
the Letter to the Galatians.
O praise the Lord, all ye nations:
praise him, all ye people.
For his merciful kindness is great toward us:
and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever.
Praise ye the Lord.
— Psalm 117 King James Version
Now, we all know that once the Georgia medical board discovered Andrew
Chung's mental faculties had been shot, they yanked his license to
practice medicine. Everyone knows he can't practice medicine any more,
and never WILL be able to. That's why he has his little business that
he runs out of his home [Cygnus Medical
Consultants, Inc., located at 6041 COLT RIDGE TRL SE, Suite 203,
MABLETON, GA, 30126-5715] while his wife has a real job and supports
him.
Chung psychotically claims he has a "forever" medical license, but of
course, that's just his mentally ill rambling. He has NO license to
practice medicine, and Psalm 117 doesn't even come CLOSE to supporting
his lie-- just like NONE of the Bible he quotes support any of his
lies.
Chung is now ETERNALLY CONDEMNED BY GOD and will suffer the
consequences.
Too bad. He really could have helped people had he not gone psycho and
kept his license. Oh well.
HeartDoc Andrew
Jun 15, 2021, 8:26:01 AM6/15/21
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(Lucy) 06/15/21 Again praying as only a forever (Psalm 117) doctor
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.bible.prophecy/c/8ecSm5ju5Zc/m/syhDrEztAgAJ
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.bible.prophecy/c/8ecSm5ju5Zc/m/syhDrEztAgAJ
Klaus Schadenfreude
Jun 15, 2021, 8:33:21 AM6/15/21
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:26:37 -0400, Red-faced with embarrassment at
being both unable and unwilling to defend his false claims and
Biblical lies, disgraced ex-doctor Andrew Ben Hua Chung, desperately
clinging to his fake "wonderfully hungry" tactic, once again displayed
his probable frontal-lobe damage by refusing to directly respond to
anyone's challenges to his psychotic behavior and insane, made-up
philosophy when he responded with his usual boilerplate, cut 'n' paste
links to his own lies by posting:
>(Lucy) 06/15/21 Again praying as only a forever (Psalm 117) doctor
>can with all glory ( http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD ...
>
>https://groups.google.com/g/alt.bible.prophecy/c/8ecSm5ju5Zc/m/syhDrEztAgAJ
:** (INSERT NAME HERE) (INSERT DATE) Again praying as only a forever (Psalm 117) doctor
being both unable and unwilling to defend his false claims and
Biblical lies, disgraced ex-doctor Andrew Ben Hua Chung, desperately
clinging to his fake "wonderfully hungry" tactic, once again displayed
his probable frontal-lobe damage by refusing to directly respond to
anyone's challenges to his psychotic behavior and insane, made-up
philosophy when he responded with his usual boilerplate, cut 'n' paste
links to his own lies by posting:
>(Lucy) 06/15/21 Again praying as only a forever (Psalm 117) doctor
>can with all glory ( http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD ...
>
>https://groups.google.com/g/alt.bible.prophecy/c/8ecSm5ju5Zc/m/syhDrEztAgAJ
Michael Ejercito
Jun 15, 2021, 8:47:34 AM6/15/21
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Michael
HeartDoc Andrew
Jun 15, 2021, 8:51:45 AM6/15/21
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MichaelE wrote:
> I am wonderfully hungry!
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory to
GOD, Who causes us to hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us
right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT
from around the heart
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're
"wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to
http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory to
GOD, Who causes us to hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us
right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT
from around the heart
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