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1 hour ago, Tbe said:

I don’t know if it will be a blow. Given the current climate with protests etc, Charlotte was probably looking at a huge mess in August. I think we dodged a bullet.

Odds are they move the convention to SC or TX. 

SC wouldn't surprise me, but we really don't have a city like Charlotte to host it. All our major cities (Charleston, Greenville/Spartanburg, Myrtle Beach) are small compared to Charlotte.

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59 minutes ago, Wolfcop said:

Definitely a punch to gut economically. NC will lose out on millions of dollars at a time when it is really needed. 

The national guard will be locking down any place that hosts this thing. Very little commerce will happen. Hotels and restaurants may lose out, but they may also be avoiding damage and looting. 

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23 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The problem they're going to have is that virtually every major city in a battleground state is going to have Democratic leadership. It's almost as if Trump doesn't think things through before he acts on a whim.

Major metropolitan Republican mayors have gone the way of the snow leopards, not extinct but very rare.  Politics have become too predictably divided between liberal urban-ites and conservative suburbia.  It's been trending that way for a long time now.  

If...big IF... the corona virus subsides enough to host a packed convention, will the mayors still turn the convention away?  It comes down to votes versus the economy. 

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1 minute ago, Inimicus said:

If it does ease up most of the places that can host already have existing contracts that they booked over the last two years.  A significant part of my job is going to industry conferences and some of the big ones book as far as 5 years out with most medium sized ones between 18 and 30 months.

 

They are going to be hard pressed to find a venue

They may have to settle for a medium sized one, but I can assure you for the right amount of money, something will get bumped or rescheduled.

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1 minute ago, CRA said:

SC numbers trending up.   

and we haven't had time for the reopening and other activity to be impacting some of those yet. 

We're going to see major spikes due in large part to A) people being reckless with reopening and B) the large protests. 

I'm really disappointed in the public leaders and even public healthcare experts who haven't cautioned against these protests. You can support the idea of the protests while still strongly cautioning that gathering in large numbers right now is a really, REALLY bad idea and a public healthcare risk. The virus doesn't give a poo about your motivation to gather in large crowds. It'll spread just as easily at a social/political protest as it does at an Ozark pool party.

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14 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

We're going to see major spikes due in large part to A) people being reckless with reopening and B) the large protests. 

I'm really disappointed in the public leaders and even public healthcare experts who haven't cautioned against these protests. You can support the idea of the protests while still strongly cautioning that gathering in large numbers right now is a really, REALLY bad idea and a public healthcare risk. The virus doesn't give a poo about your motivation to gather in large crowds. It'll spread just as easily at a social/political protest as it does at an Ozark pool party.

it just seems like people got fed up with quarantine like the 1918 flu.  with or without the protests this was gonna happen.  seems like lots of people can only go so long w/out doing their social lives.  

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1 minute ago, raz said:

it just seems like people got fed up with quarantine like the 1918 flu.  with or without the protests this was gonna happen.  seems like lots of people can only go so long w/out doing their social lives.  

People have penned up energy, but I'd also say the media (of all forms) has a captive audience right now.  People would normally be distracted with other things on a daily basis, but they've got time to obsess over stuff now in a way they couldn't before.

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