Seems like a reach to me. They're providing a ton of utility. They are mitigating the a few key liabilities IMO:<p>1. The legal liability of a studio/prod not providing ample protections for employees. I'm unsure if there is precedent here, but it seems to fall under the General Duty Clause of the OSH Act.<p>2. They are doing supply-chain/operations security work. If every extra on set caught COVID filming would cease, and money would be wasted. If talent catches COVID -- same, but if talent catches COVID and ends up hospitalized or worse you've got not only a delayed movie, but potentially NO movie.
> The reaction to this seemingly benign observation was one of the strangest eruptions of outrage I’ve ever experienced on Twitter — and I’ve experienced quite a few. People were utterly infuriated by it....<p>> Then, as tends to happen with these little blowups, the private messages soon started trickling in — and they told a slightly different story. This time, they came from other people working in the TV/film industry who wanted to tell me about the ridiculously mind-bending COVID protocols they still have to deal with...<p>Has this guy been living in a hole? He's just observing evidence that COVID has become a polarizing social issue, and that both sides are populated by people. There's no insight here, just a bunch of people talking past each other all assuming their opinions are the supremely righteous ones, OP very much included.<p>Also, one of the biggest bullshit job of them all is "reflexive bureaucracy-condemner."
If those jobs were eliminated, wouldn't those people all be able to fill some of the unfilled jobs we have all over the economy today, that are actually important?
I love "wrong" articles like this, because it's really interesting when someone does the very natural thing of presuming everyone feels the same way they do. The author tells us a lot about <i>himself</i> while believing that some perennial forever phenomenon is something new.
> The person said an elaborate system of “signals and codes” had to be developed for crew members to warn each other when the Compliance Officer was coming, so they could quickly put on their masks and pretend to be on their best behavior.<p>Wear your goddamned masks.
Just flat out wrong. It was only the orgs with bonkers-level compliance efforts like SNL and the NBA that managed that make it through this thing without having to shut down constantly.
It's disheartening to see how people like the author don't seem to give half a fuck about the wellbeing of others, and at the same time insist on ridiculing those who do.