**PRESS COVERAGE** @bylinesnetwork.bsky.socialbylines.cymru/arts-and-cul...@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com@jerilryan.bsky.social
Performers, crew, staff, and audiences are highly vulnerable to the spread of airborne diseases. An event at the BAFTAs will raise awareness
Anything resonate with the HIV-AIDS situation in 80s-90s? I'm old enough to remember. China are now treating SARS2 same way. Since the Wuhan (smoking guns), people go "back home" to recover (or die). After 4 yrs now, I simply want a care-home bed. #LongCovid is killing us, slowly but assuredly.
Really great project in Great Britain!
**MORE PRESS** British Theatre Guide covered “Protect the Heart of the Arts,” sounding the alarm on the Long Covid crisis in the performing arts. Editor Philip Fisher mentions critics & performers ill for weeks with Covid. www.britishtheatreguide.info/features/ala...@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
The following documents outlining a strategy of declaring a win over covid while waving the white flag to the virus, dated Feb 2022, can be downloaded from the US house of representatives). Now almost a year later, the long covid and death toll keep on mounting docs.house.gov/meetings/VC/...
**MORE PRESS COVERAGE** Radio New Zealand — NZ’s equivalent of BBC Radio — covered the “Protect the Heart of the Arts” mask handout at David Tennant’s Macbeth. Performers with Long Covid sounded the alarm on the Long Covid crisis in the performing arts. www.rnz.co.nz@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Congrats to movement member Damian Fell for passing his MA thesis defence with 98%(!!).
The coughing I heard at the theatre last night (not Macbeth but another big west end theatre) was worrying.
#CovidIsAirborne#CovidIsNotOver
’Alas, poor country!’: performers suffering from long Covid to distribute masks at David Tennant’s Macbeth tonight Performing artists, staff, and patrons are impacted by long Covid. Venues need mitigations including masks. Covid is airborne and not over.
Many performing artists have been open about the impacts of long Covid on their lives and work. Venues need mitigations including masks