SAG-AFTRA Chief Says (Hollywood) Production Won’t Return To “Normal” Until Vaccine, Testing & Tracing Are In Place

Deadline ^ | May 6, 2020 | David Robb

[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.”

[ontap]

It’s been years since I went to a movie.....don’t care if this bunch of communist ever make another film!!!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Damn, this may work to the world’s advantage. Global Communist pimps and whores of Hollywood starved to death by their own thinking and actions .... go for it clowns.

[Secret Agent Man]

I hope we never get a vaccine.

Wouldnt take it anyway but if it shuts down hollyweird and those entitled sanctimonious narcissistic prince and princess pretenders don’t get monstrous paychecks,

thats good news for all of us.

[Zionist Conspirator]

There’s a bright side after all!

[Mastador1]

Hey sounds good to me, I am sorry for all the workers but if it deflates all those liberal twats that believe that just because they are popular and someone gave them a bunch of cash , it made them intelligent or qualified to tell everyone else to think and act then it is well worth it.

[Ratman0823]

The best reason I’ve seen for delaying the Vaccine as long as possible. Not to mention banning the Tracing apps under privacy rights, such as they exist nowadays.

[glennaro]

Not a surprise ... lots and lots and lots of cowards in the film industry.

[US_MilitaryRules]

More good news!

[xrmusn]

lots and lots and lots of cowards in the film industry.
= = = = = = = = = =
A lot like the pols on the ‘OUT’ side of power.

Easier to sit back and criticize everything that someone does without EVER even offering an alternate or the ‘way’ to do it correctly (Even in their mind)

Remember when the Ds had control of the Congress for 40 years, the Rs had gotten so used to just ‘being there’ and even being ‘shut out’, they didn’t mind as long as the checks kept coming in.

Probably the ‘official’ beginning of the word RINO, when they finally had to act on and do some WORK inre what the hell they had been running on they just proved to be powder puffs.

Like that group of Rs that ran on ‘killing’ ObamaScare for a couple of terms and when someone got in that would HELP them succeed, they got ‘cold feet’ and then quit - blaming PDJT’s ‘policies’ etc,
NOT the fact they had been lying their way into office. (Now That is funny)

[Morpheus2009]

Remakes of remakes. Like McDonald’s, the masses eat it up.

[contrarian]

But where will we get our daily dose of filth, homo perversion, and ASPCA propaganda ?

[minnesota_bound]

“Social distancing will certainly be a requirement on all productions” ...yeah right. Will they film the actors in such a way that they are several feet apart yet look like they are standing next to each other?
Also how will the producers and directors have sex with the actresses / actors?

[L,TOWM]

Hell, HBO Productions is basically soft porn — Somehow, I think GoT would not have been the cultural sensation it became, if social distancing had been maintained in the series...