Day 227: No Lifeline

Israel will be locking down again for three weeks starting Friday. The timing (for the high holidays) is both unfortunate and precautionary.

The Atlantic reports on the poor performance of Tenet in the US and what it means (DOOM!) for movie theaters in general:

If things were already looking bleak for American cinemas, the immediate future now looks catastrophic. This past weekend, the total domestic box office was less than $15 million—Indiewire estimates that sum amounts to $5,000 per theater, which isn’t enough to pay for basic operating costs. As studios grow more skittish about releasing major films, those numbers will only dwindle. Tenet was supposed to be the industry’s lifeline; for now, Hollywood has nothing else to pin its hopes on.

Here in Massachusetts, cases were up a fifth of a percentage point.