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Will Donald Trump debate Joe Biden? Or is it to his benefit to deprive the Democratic nominee of oxygen? Also, what will be the fate of the movie-going experience? Has the pandemic dealt the movie theater a fatal blow?
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The movie industry has aligned itself with politics that are the opposite of mine. I will shed no tears if it takes an enormous financial hit.
Yeah, I mostly seem to watch only Clint Eastwood and Dinesh D’Souza movies, and Clint isn’t going to be around forever. I went to those awful feminist Star Wars movies too, and I saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I watch a few history movies with my mom usually at home though.
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However, I would be more nervous about sitting down to a restaurant to eat.
All you need to go to the movie theater is an N-95 mask, latex gloves, and a certain amount of social distancing where people are sitting in the same place for two hours.
Compare that to going to a restaurant, how are you suppose to eat and talk with a mask, and you can’t practice too much social distancing where people are moving around.