Adele, who had to postpone her 2022 Vegas residency due to #COVID19 and said she'd stop taking selfies with fans in 2023 due to COVID risks, is getting a state-of-the-art air filtration system for her shows at Caesars Palace.
'Adele is getting the best possible air to protect her voice.'
If you're important enough, businesses will protect you with safe, filtered air. The rest of us on our own.
@augieray sounds like if the venue is hurt, by large money (one richie) or a lot of small money (the rest of us), they still respond, because it is business. I wouldn't shame her for it one bit, I would shame the venue. Her standing up was a great conversation starter! We the people have the opportunity to not go to shows we feel unsafe about. We should say so by not going to yhose venues. I work in HVAC industry and I judge indoor spaces constantly. Institutions need to up their game at large.
@augieray
"If you're important enough, businesses will protect you with safe, filtered air. The rest of us on our own."
Reminds me of the early days of the pandemic in Germany. There was a big outrage of parents, when the government did nothing to equip schools with air filters, but the government buildings had the best filters installed in the shortest time. Children had to go to school, nevertheless, & had to freeze every half hour while windows were opened to refresh the air during lessons.
@otfrom I have mixed feelings about people who do this. I understand and share the concerns about the Daily Mail. But journalism is failing and journalists are losing their jobs. We're seeing mass layoffs and shuttered new sites. And if we want better news, then we need to provide the clicks to the sites that produce the news, otherwise all we do is motivate more clickbait, more focus on what generates ad revenue, and more partisanship as a mechanism for sites to encourage engagement.
@augieray I happily pay for good and important journalism. I want the mail to go out of business. I think it will continue at its owner is more interested in using it as a weapon than anything else. The Murdoch papers are the same. I don't think we have to treat all newspapers and websites as good things we want to save
@otfrom Totally get it. Still, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and when a right-leaning media site gets COVID right, I wonder if we do more harm than good by stealing the IP. If it only gets clicks on COVID denial articles, and we steal the clicks on COVID-concerned articles, we cannot be surprised when it doesn't cover COVID better.
@augieray reminds me of the play "Gasping" which explored the ramifications of corporate control over fresh air, like they have over water. It seemed laughable paranoia in 1980s England. These days in the US where Bush's "Clear Skies" regulation made air quality worse and every Republican government wants to privatize and deregulate everything... not so much.
That said, Vegas smokey casino air, especially in older places like Cesar's Palace, sucks.
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