As I posted on the Book of Face, roughly a third of my coworkers are out with it. We just got a new hire who I’m training... he’s a Covid denier, so I’m totally f*cked.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:39 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t know what it feels like in the rest of the country right now, but > in California we are in a full out emergency. As noted by the LAT: “A > person is dying every 10 minutes...a person was getting infected every six > seconds.” It’s bad up here in NorCal, but SoCal is Ground Zero. I feel like > the general public overestimates how familiar even ICU or ER docs and > nurses are to patients dying. No health professional outside of like a > medic on Omaha Beach in the late Spring of 1944 is trained or used to > dealing with so much death. I don’t deal with this, but I have a lot of MDs > and RNs as patients, and have heard so many stories of how difficult it is > for them every time they walk into a pt room. > > The reality of the disaster post Thanksgiving has been even worse than our > fears, and it looks like that may be true for Christmas and New Years as > well. The article describes how this has impacted television production; at > the end of the post are some excerpts and summary descriptions. > > In about two weeks we are going to have an actual working President, and > he is going to call for 100 days of full COVID precautions. Combined with a > more energetic effort to deliver the vaccine, there is a very good chance > things will be a lot better by Summer. Until then, please, let’s gently > remind ourselves and each other to be careful out there. > > “Southern California hospitals are facing a crisis the likes of which we > have never seen before. Patients are dying in ambulances waiting for > treatment because hospital emergency rooms are overwhelmed. This is not a > safe environment for in-person production right now,” SAG-AFTRA President > Gabrielle Carteris said in a statement.” > > “The virus is also hitting the entertainment industry, which stay-at-home > rules have deemed an essential business. There have been clusters of > coronavirus infections identified recently among workers at three Warner > Bros. productions in Burbank — “Lucifer,” “The Kominsky Method” and “Young > Sheldon.” In total, 35 people have tested positive as part of those > infections.” > > Outbreaks have also hit CBS Studio Center and NBC Universal both in Studio > City and Universal City, and at Netflix Productions’ office in Gardena. > > > https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-04/la-workplaces-coronavirus-spread > > > On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 at 12:32 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Several studios delaying production... mostly (I suspect) because so many >> on the crew have already tested positive, not because of the weakly worded >> request >> >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cbs-studios-delays-filming-on-ncis-other-shows-as-l-a-covid-cases-surge >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 7:40 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Wow. What a weak statement , considering ICU's in LA are running at 100% >>> capacity. >>> >>> (Sorry for the divergence to public health policy) >>> >>> >>> On Tue., Dec. 29, 2020, 3:53 p.m. 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV, < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> LA Dept of Public Health to the area film industry: " [W]e ask you to >>>> strongly consider pausing work for a few weeks during this catastrophic >>>> surge in COVID cases. 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