No, they're going to keep open till you shut them all down... you snakes!

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Bob Jersey

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Dec 29, 2020, 3:53:53 PM12/29/20
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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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Doug Eastick

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Dec 29, 2020, 10:40:01 PM12/29/20
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Wow. What a weak statement , considering ICU's in LA are running at 100% capacity.

(Sorry for the divergence to public health policy)


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Kevin M.

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Jan 1, 2021, 3:32:49 PM1/1/21
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Several studios delaying production... mostly (I suspect) because so many on the crew have already tested positive, not because of the weakly worded request  


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PGage

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Jan 4, 2021, 1:39:44 PM1/4/21
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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.


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Kevin M.

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Jan 4, 2021, 1:44:04 PM1/4/21
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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. 

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Mark Jeffries

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Jan 5, 2021, 12:04:23 PM1/5/21
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And British Jimmy was back in his garage last night, which means that TV City is shut down, which means that "Price is Right" is shut down again and unless it reopens by next Friday, Maher will be back in his backyard with the laugh track and stock footage of audiences for his monologue on his season premiere.

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Tom Wolper

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Jan 5, 2021, 2:53:12 PM1/5/21
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:04 PM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:
And British Jimmy was back in his garage last night, which means that TV City is shut down, which means that "Price is Right" is shut down again and unless it reopens by next Friday, Maher will be back in his backyard with the laugh track and stock footage of audiences for his monologue on his season premiere.

Jimmy Kimmel did his show from home last night.
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