{"id":39190,"date":"2020-03-13T09:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39190"},"modified":"2020-03-13T09:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T16:24:16","slug":"friday-empty-venues-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/13\/friday-empty-venues-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: Empty Venues Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since this is (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic crisis, I felt it would be fitting to memorialize in pictures the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on daily life.<\/p>\n

(I know it will be large – but we should feel the impact of it.)<\/em><\/p>\n

JFK Airport:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dodgers Spring Baseball Game:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Madison Square Garden Last Night (NBA Season Now Canceled)<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Soccer Game in Europe:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Louvre, Paris:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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String Quartet Concert, Venice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Duomo Cathedral Piazza, Milan:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pigeons gather on Piazza del Duomo by Milan’s cathedral on March 10, 2020 in Milan. – Italy imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people on March 10, 2020 to control the deadly coronavirus, as China signalled major progress in its own battle against the global epidemic. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA \/ AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Galleria Shopping Center, Milan:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TOPSHOT – A general view shows a woman walk across the deserted Vittorio Emanuele II galleria shopping mall on March 10, 2020 in Milan. – Italy imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people on March 10, 2020 to control the deadly coronavirus, as China signalled major progress in its own battle against the global epidemic. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA \/ AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Paper Products Section, Costco:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A customer walks past mostly empty shelves that normally hold toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco store in Teterboro, N.J., Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p><\/div>\n

Ginza Shopping District, Tokyo:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TOKYO, JAPAN – FEBRUARY 26 2020 Virus frightens visitors at Japan’s shopping district of Ginza. Image of empty street in the heart of the luxury hub of the capital.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Massimo Rumi \/ Barcroft Studios \/ Future Publishing (Photo credit should read Massimo Rumi\/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Super-Highway, Hong Kong:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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St. Peter’s Square, Rome:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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VATICAN CITY, VATICAN – MARCH 8: A view of empty chairs at St Peter’s Square before the live-broadcasting of Pope Francis’ Sunday Angelus prayer during the Coronavirus emergency, on March 8, 2020 in Vatican City, Vatican. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the closure of the Italian region of Lombardy in an attempt to stop the ongoing coronavirus epidemic in the Italian country. The number of confirmed cases of the Coronavirus COVID-19 disease in Italy has jumped up to at least 5,883, while the death toll has surpassed 230. (Photo by Antonio Masiello\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

Church Pews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mecca:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TOPSHOT – An aerial view shows an empty white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, on March 6, 2020. – An eerie emptiness enveloped the sacred Kaaba in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site, where attendance at Friday prayers was hit by measures to protect against the deadly new coronavirus. (Photo by Bandar ALDANDANI \/ AFP) (Photo by BANDAR ALDANDANI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since this is (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic crisis, I felt it would be fitting to memorialize in pictures the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on daily life. (I know it will be large – but we should feel the impact of it.) JFK Airport: Dodgers Spring Baseball Game: Madison Square Garden Last Night (NBA Season Now […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3916,3913,3921],"class_list":["post-39190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-emptry-venues","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}