The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon denomination, has cancelled all public services and meetings worldwide until further notice.
Looking at Twitter, there are increasing number of individual churches around the world that have cancelled services for this Sunday, including Lakewood in Houston, Texas, one of the biggest churches in the US.
Have Catholic churches stopped the partaking of the communion wine from the shared chalices? Orthodox churches doing their communions with shared spoons would be another virus haven as well.
Well the government is saying that mass gatherings should be cancelled 
Yes, they have.
If itās a dry coughā¦ maybe!
Iāve had a bit of phlegm in the last couple days, but nothing else. Still makes you wonder all the sameā¦
A lot more sporting events postponed or cancelled including the Masterās Golf tournament (PostPoned))
Deadline reports all major US networks, plus Apple, have halted production on their current and upcoming shows due to coronavirus.
Does he qualify for testing though?
Melbourne Flower and Garden Show also announced this morning that this monthās event has been cancelled.
Well
Itās a complicated story, but I went to a Greek Orthodox high school. Father Steven was the priest at the church which the school was attached to.
Deary me. I canāt believe heās saying this.
Still.manage to get the sponsorās plug in the cancellation tweet!
An exhibitor called Raf Epstein yesterday with that news so was only a matter of time until confirmation.
Continuing discussion that started in the Kayo sport area where I suggested that that streaming service may get an increase in subscriptions because especially AFL and NRL fans wonāt be able to go to matches.
Iām thinking that TV will turn into the number one option for entertainment as the virus pandemic increases its impact. Many of the usual recreational activities will not be available so perhaps that will see an increase in TV viewing. Not just FTA where especially news numbers may go up, but Netflix, Stan, Foxtel and Fetch may see subs go up or at least stop dropping in the case of some.
Agree, people will have money to spend, particularly also with the stimulus that the government is planning.
In a weird sort of way, the virus might just end up giving the economy the kick in the bum it needs at the end of all of this.
Interesting thought.
Outside of news programming and whatever crowdless Sports events remain on our screens, I actually think Gogglebox* could benefit in the ratings from the Coronavirus crisis. In times like these, a show based around people watching TV seems like something I could see viewers really connecting with.
*That is, if Gogglebox remains in production for the remainder of the season. Iām half expecting to hear words to the effect of āDue to the Coronavirus, weāre taking a break and hope to be back sometime when the crisis is overā at the end of next weekās episode.
You know that this is big when a US Federal Government with a Republican as president gives workers paid sick leave. Damned socialists!
Not sure about Kayo seeing an uptick in subscribers given that most/all sporting events will be cancelledā¦that has already happened with cricket so I wonāt be watching. Will suspend my subscription once/if these last two ODI matches are played. I think itās inevitable that both the AFL and NRL seasons will be suspended, perhaps cancelled altogether depending on the severity and duration of the outbreak. A truncated competition resuming in say June/July is still possible.
I agree with Netflix and the others- but if the lockdown is for months then eventually people will run out of content here, too. Hollywood is also suspending its operations so there will be a big dearth of new content in the months ahead.
But really- couldnāt give a stuff about entertainment so long as the outbreak isnāt too severe. Need to adopt the old āstiff upper lipā attitude.
NZ consequences
This new travel restrictions will have huge ramifications for the NRL, Super Rugby and A-League, all of which have NZ-based teams. Will they have to play their matches away from NZ?
