“We may not know the exact illness affecting the Macbeth cast, but we do know that Covid is a serious vascular disease requiring extended recovery times,” noted Charles Waltz, founder of Protect the Heart of the Arts:

Reinfections weaken immunity to other pathogens, so without measures like air purification and adequate recovery time, we risk ongoing illness cycles that could impact health and stability across the industry. Clean air and flexible recovery policies are essential to protect the performance community’s long-term health.

Not a single mention of masking though.

Think the nerds will finally revolt if Covid kills Tennant?

    • dat_math [they/them]
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      7 hours ago

      yeah, mine was from a bargoer in a crowd of cigarette smokers

      I guess it's consistent at least for antimaskers to think carcinogen rich gasses are essentially "fresh air"? Maybe their olfactory systems have been disabled by covid?

      • Edamamebean [she/her]
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        7 hours ago

        It's genuinely so bizarre. I understand why people don't want to wear a mask all the time, but I will never understand the collective excitement to go back to rawdogging the disgusting air of a crowded bus or room.

        • dat_math [they/them]
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          7 hours ago

          Right? Imagine using a public bathroom without one

          cw gross:

          spoiler

          and choosing to put microscopic chunks of someone else's poop in your own lungs

          like wtf????

      • urmums401k [she/her, they/them]
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        7 hours ago

        Or maybe they're stochastic parrot philosophical zombies and this is why they seem to be mostly the same people who think a large language model is the same as AI, because its the same as them. The words they say are just copies of cop>es of copies, denatured simulacra, because they have shed their humanity for whatever reason, determined to exist but unwilling or unable to live.

        • dat_math [they/them]
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          6 hours ago

          idk I don't want to opine too strongly on the nature of social pressure and consciousness but it really feels like that sometimes