My COVID antibody test came back negative. it's the Lab Corps one without any titers or anything; you get a go/no go. So either I never had COVID or I had COVID but my body doesn't have the immune response that Lab Corps thinks implies immunity. I was sure fuckin' sick tho. Hollywood is currently trying to figure out how to shoot again. Bold & Beautiful did a day yesterday and then decided they needed a week off in order to rework their testing protocols. The recommendations, you see, call for daily nasopharyngeal swabs for everyone within six feet of a performer and thrice-weekly nasopharyngeal swabs for everyone who so much as listens to the same walkie channel. The recommendations, however, have fuckall to say about a camera department of 48 people sharing 7 cameras and 3 dolly tracks. Everyone in Hollywood is basically splitting between oh holy shit I'll sign any waiver it's just the flu and I need the work and nothing we've seen indicates that there's any reasonable hope of this working. I don't even know if I can make it down. Things are busy AF up here and based on the recommendations I've seen, I'll need to sign a sworn affidavit every morning attesting under penalty of dismissal and substantial legal action that I have no COVID symptoms. But I've got a lingering cough from that-which-apparently-wasn't-COVID. I wouldn't let me on set. Fuck.
Sorry the cough is lingering... and I think I'm sorry the test was negative... but at this point, I imagine you'd rather have it over with for how miserable you felt. I think it's fair to say it extends beyond tinsel town. It's like one more hot topic for Americans to hate each other about. And it's making strange bedfellows.Everyone in Hollywood is basically splitting between oh holy shit I'll sign any waiver it's just the flu and I need the work and nothing we've seen indicates that there's any reasonable hope of this working.