The big difference between the two is that the film crew is likely tested each day before stepping on set and are also adhering to strict protocols. My best guess is that the seating is more separate.<p>> I work in film and can confirm that the cast and crew test 3x per week to be able to work. Only 2 people per 6 foot table while eating. Tables are actually 6 feet apart. Covid positive numbers in the LA film industry are about 1 out of every 3500 test. Also since filmmaker have to test negative to work most filmmakers, in their personal lives, don’t socialize with the outside world hence the very low positivity rate.
from /u/Alexis-in-Texas, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusCA/comments/k71v7w/outdoor_dining_is_closed_for_everyone_except/gepnicv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusCA/comments/k71v7w/outdo...</a><p>> My Roomate works on set for a network. He/everyone he works with are required to get rapid tested before they step on the set every single day. Anyone he comes in contact with on set has passed the same rapid test.<p>from /u/buffyscrims, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/k6y5f5/bar_owner_in_los_angeles_ca_is_livid_to_see_that/genp97b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/k6y5f5/bar_owne...</a>
I work in TV, in an environment that's very strict. We're tested up to 4 times/week (I have friends who are tested daily), asked not to use mass transit, and many of us work so many hours that we have no time to do much socializing outside of the group of people working for the production who are all in the same boat. It's really the only place I go where I feel perfectly safe. Even when unmasked to eat, we don't sit together, we're always socially distant.<p>Contrast this with my friends outside the business...they're going out semi-regularly, have only been tested when they want to see their family or get out of quarantining for 2 weeks after travel, think nothing of eating in the outdoor huts that are slowly getting more and more enclosed as the NYC weather gets colder. I'm very sympathetic to this woman and all restaurant owners in general, but the situations are not the same.
Government officials are being subjectively restrictive and hypocritical at times. Gavin Newsom, London Breed, San Licarrdo are violating their own guidance. Meanwhile people are unemployed and losing their businesses without getting any support. The stock market bailed out by the Fed reaches new highs.
People in this thread seem to be justifying it since the film industry reportedly does more testing. I don’t know if I really believe it’s better (actors take flights and likely don’t wear masks for filming, lots of catered food, tests aren’t perfect by any means, etc.), let’s assume that it is.<p>The point still stands that it’s unfair. If the film industry is able to get a pass to operate by meeting some standard then that should be formalized and extended to these small businesses. Let them decide if it’s viable.<p>Back room deals and private special exceptions are no way to operate.
I can't read the article, but I listened to Adam Savage's podcast where he talked to one of the principles of BattleBots. He described the steps they had to go through to run/film during CoVid- it included dedicated compliances personnel, with continual enforcement and daily testing. So my guess is that the film company is facing a higher set of standards, and is allowed to operate because it does so.
There is a logic explained in the article.
This is corporate restaurant (cafeteria) with employees routinely tested & little churn.<p>If office restaurants are opened that seems logical.
I don’t care what anyone says, at the end of the day the pro-lockdown crowd nowadays is largely able to afford sealing up in their apartment and work from home while they dispatch some immigrant to deliver them food. It’s inhumane and sanctimonious.<p>These restrictions amount to a wealth transfer to the rich and unmitigated suffering to anyone struggling.
> The county health department noted in a statement that film crews are regularly tested for the virus and that, unlike at restaurants, people do not mingle for “extended periods of time without their face covering.” Audiences are not allowed at film sites under the county’s guidelines.
Outrageous. Another example of 'Shutdown for thee, but not for me'.<p>The list of politicians who have been caught vacationing, going to grooming appointments, etc. is appalling. (These are politicians who have made strong statements condemning everyone else to stay home.)<p>But the pols are small potatoes in comparison to the business edicts like this article is about. People's entire livelihoods are at stake.
Video link of the woman showing the situation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJFf2kon2c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJFf2kon2c</a>
The problem with the "we're tested all the time" explanation is that we've been told for months now that you can still be contagious even if you test negative and are asymptomatic.
How come people in Sweden don't use masks, run their lives normally and their Covid statistics are better than the ones in the USA?<p>Turns out the Swedish declared they didn't know how to deal with Covid, and by not knowing they decided the best course of action was to do nothing as far as lockdowns and other authoritarian measures were concerned.