Posted on 05/06/2020 11:53:58 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The full reopening of the film and TV industry probably won’t be possible until a vaccine is developed to combat the coronavirus and testing and tracing of the virus’ spread are in place, according to David White, national executive director of SAG-AFTRA. White shared that view during a media conference call today with the top leaders of the industry’s unions and guilds, including representatives of the DGA, IATSE, Actors’ Equity and the WGA East.
“As a general matter, it’s worth noting that a vaccine is right now maybe not a consensus but overwhelmingly viewed as the time when everything can go back to normal,” White said. “And broad and reliable testing and tracing is the rule-of-thumb standard as to when we will have some organized, sustained production returning to stages. If you don’t know who is a super-carrier, and they’re on a set with folks, even with social distancing, you’ve got a problem. So you’ve got to be able to test and the vaccine is viewed as the time when it can come back.
“I’m not an expert and there’s broad thinking around that,” he continued, “but as a rule of thumb, we’re looking for things to be firmly in place before we’re going to put people in an environment that can actually directly and negatively affect their health.”
Asked by Deadline about the work of the Industry-Wide Labor Management Safety Committee, which will play a key role in establishing protocols for a resumption of production, White said, “All the unions are working together on an easy-to-understand format to give an indication as to whether or not we’ve agreed that a set is safe vs. unsafe, so we’re all working together to come up with that protocol, which will tie into what the industry is doing.”
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Don’t get too excited that they will stay away until a vaccine is developed. After all, how many Hollyweirdos promised to leave the country because Republican X got elected? Not one of them ever left.
When their $400 million bank accounts head toward zero, they’ll get back to work vaccine or no vaccine.
Do these idiots know they may never be a vaccine?
This virus may have many silver-linings. It may very well bankrupt systems that have become highly rigid, ideological, corrupt and resistant to change.
This will include one-party states with entrenched bloated bureaucracies like Illinois and New York, or it may include things like “Hollywood.”
think of it as “Cloward Piven,” but for conservatives.
I hate it for the typical working crew person.
In the long battle to escape TV production ,a hard part of an interview was explaining what I actually did. Nothing all that special. A glorified VT operator/editor and studio production person.
At least one good thing came out of this craziness. Great news!
No American needs Hollywood.
Deranged communists, such as Deniro, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, etc, can move to China and work there.
Good!!
These people are the LEAST essential.
Who is really gonna miss the freaking weirdos from Hollywood? I could live without their virtue signaling movies for the rest of my life.
Hollywood has never been normal. I suggest we vaccinate them with lead. That would totally fix the coronavirus.
That is a bit of good news
My grand kids even if they survive past my time (81 years) will never see this even if they make it past 100 years)!
“Normal” Until Vaccine, Testing & Tracing Are In Place!
“They didn’t react like this to HIV..”
Heck sexual acts probably quadrupled during the AIDS crisis in Hollyweird...
Filthy Communist China controls most of it now. Ban all Communist Chinese financing, ownership or co-productions.
Great news!
HIV is among the least contagious diseases out there. You bet that plenty of movie stars probably take some level of precaution against it unless you do porn Star work like Charlie Sheen, or screw around the block like Robert Reid and Freddy Mercury.
How much production is going to continue to leave Caliphony for kickbacks in other states or cheap production costs in Canada or Eastern Europe?
(everybody singing) AIDS AIDS WE ALL HAVE AIDS
(everybody singing) AIDS AIDS WE ALL HAVE AIDS
Hollywood needs to throttle back on new productions anyway. They have a backlog of films that aren’t getting proper theatrical release. They don’t want a glut of product.
Faggotry must not be interfered with.
What have vaccines done to the flu? we get millions of infections every year while handing out flu shots like water.
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