Covid-19 (Novel Coronavirus) - Effects on the production industry

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Back to the original question of how production will be impacted, what is being seen so far for:

Television episodic - I assume the show must go on - no impact
Television sports - professional shows go on. Maybe college shows are impacted?
Television live daily shows - show goes on?
Commercial work - Some slowdown, but not a crash?
Corporate - I expect this would tank significantly
Weddings?
Documentaries?
 
groveChuck said:
Coughed and sneezed inside my shirt collar with my elbow over that. Pulled my long sleeves over my hands for every door, elevator button and object. Was surprised how immediately it became habit...
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I try to do this all the time. Not only because of any potential virus but because our building has a lot of kids and those run around eating ice cream and wiping nose at the same time, which can make the doors and the elevator buttons a tad too "greasy" sometimes and I hate that feel on the touch.

Last week, I was at our local Publix and found no sanitary wipes before pulling out a cart. Well, since I kind of know people there, I walked over to an assistant service manager and asked her. She replies, "They get stolen from the open box now ... but I'll give you some from the box we keep behind the counter". She gave me a couple but I took one, just to wipe the top handle. And my hands. (came home, washed hands in a bowl, filled with hot water + a dish washing detergent with a lot of bubbles ... soaked them for a few seconds, felt a bit of a chemical residue left over, which is probably safer anyway)

NorBro said:
Washing your hands only makes sense if you wash your hands and don't touch anything else (obviously not your orifices), or only disinfected surfaces.

Because if you wash your hands and then touch your tripod handle again that has the virus then it's on your hands again.

You'd have to continuously wipe every single surface you come in contact with. Exhausting and maybe impossible depending on your life....
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Technically speaking, there's a cumulative effect to the bacteria, which is why these crew members on cruise ships have a much higher infection rate than the passengers. The crew works mostly indoors, with these bacteria being recirculated in their proximity. The passengers eat and do whatever the passengers do, often outside. And an hour in the sun in an open air is often enough to smother what basteria did penetrate by both the external factors and the body's own immunity system.

There are no guarantees, obviously.

Side note - beer is a fairly weak disinfectant per volume but, even at 4% alcohol content, a bottle has 16-20 grams of alcohol. For hand washing, it's too diluted. For the internal consumption - aka, its intended use - it's probably sufficient for the minor contamination. A 5 mL tea spoon of hard liquor will have ~ 2 grams of alcohol but, as a concentrated doze, is more likely to kill bacteria in the same manner an ethanol hand wipe would.
 
NorBro said:
If one person has it on his or her hands and leaves the room and touches a bunch of public handles and then other people in the building touch those handles then it's all over the place. You'd have to live in a bubble to keep away (which I guess is why that saying exists).
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What if the person in your case study leaves the room, washes their hands then touches the public handles?
 
Yes, many scenarios and questioning are all valid...too many possibilities, too many people, surfaces.

But on a side note, the process of washing hands in a public bathroom and then touching the exit handle on the way out (or even the faucet) has always been a common mystery in life. I never understood it; the act made no sense unless you trusted all surfaces to be clean every second of the day.

Personally, I've used napkins to touch public handles since I could start to form thoughts, but in general have tried to avoid them or followed people on the way in or out and handled doors with my elbows (you then don't want to stick your nose into your elbow after doing that!).

Don't ask me to press your floor's button, lol, j/k.

But then there's always the thought of accidentally touching the napkin the wrong way while you are throwing it out. Or just in general, breathing, lol.

It never ends if you are conscious of these things but that's no way to live a life.
 
NorBro said:
Yes, many scenarios and questioning are all valid...too many possibilities, too many people, surfaces.

But on a side note, the process of washing hands in a public bathroom and then touching the exit handle on the way out (or even the faucet) has always been a common mystery in life. I never understood it; the act made no sense unless you trusted all surfaces to be clean every second of the day.

Personally, I've used napkins to touch public handles since I could start to form thoughts, but in general have tried to avoid them or followed people on the way in or out and handled doors with my elbows (you then don't want to stick your nose into your elbow after doing that!).

Don't ask me to press your floor's button, lol, j/k.

But then there's always the thought of accidentally touching the napkin the wrong way while you are throwing it out. Or just in general, breathing, lol.

It never ends if you are conscious of these things but that's no way to live a life.
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Gotta love those non-door entrances, just a winding hallway.
 
ha...depending on which ones you could be temporarily stepping into a virus filled box (especially those that have the rubber friction on the side to keep the motion/movement in control thus allowing more particle containment).
 
NorBro said:
Yes, many scenarios and questioning are all valid...too many possibilities, too many people, surfaces.

But on a side note, the process of washing hands in a public bathroom and then touching the exit handle on the way out (or even the faucet) has always been a common mystery in life. I never understood it; the act made no sense unless you trusted all surfaces to be clean every second of the day.

Personally, I've used napkins to touch public handles since I could start to form thoughts, but in general have tried to avoid them or followed people on the way in or out and handled doors with my elbows (you then don't want to stick your nose into your elbow after doing that!).

Don't ask me to press your floor's button, lol, j/k.

But then there's always the thought of accidentally touching the napkin the wrong way while you are throwing it out. Or just in general, breathing, lol.

It never ends if you are conscious of these things but that's no way to live a life.
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I've actually seen, a few times, bathroom doors that had a protrusion at the bottom to allow a person to open the door(inward) with their foot instead of grabbing the handle. Most of the bigger, nicer, newer convenient stores(like QT, Sheetz, etc.) have the "winding hallway" entrances to the restrooms, instead of doors. The one that cracks me up is when the restroom has either an automatic sink and manual paper towel dispenser or manual sink and automatic paper towels.
 
I always try to kick the door with my foot. But, hey, I grew up playing soccer.

As to hand wipes - I just made a trip to the grocery store. Odds were that the wipes wouldn't be there. So, I just took a regular paper towel, folded it into a handkerchief size, sprayed it with a diluted floor/bathroom cleaner - and, when I say diluted, it's probably 20/1 lower concentration compared to the original bottle - stuffed it into my shorts pocket and did my regular 20 min walk. I covered my nose/mouth in the elevator, which had five more people riding with me. One lady asks, "Do you have a cough?" I reply, "No, but better safe than sorry". On arrival to the supermarket, I pull out the paper towel and wipe the top cart handle with it, which is still moist with the very aromatic cleaner.

I've no idea if it did any good, obviously. But it felt cleaner.

PS. On the way, I got first caught in a 2-minute rain shower (ducked under a parking structure and avoided most of it) and, on approaches to the supermarket, in gale force wind gusts. By the time I got done with shopping, I was coughing. Into the paper towel.
 
How is a bathroom door any different than any other door? It turns out it isn't. In fact, even the toilet seat in a public bathroom is of little consequence. Now this isn't based on some $30m grant to a university, but those grand poo-bahs of testing myths. They tested various items and found the kitchen sponge to be the worst item by a large margin.
 
Serious health problems aside for those who are effected directly by the virus, my wife and I and some other family members are snagging cheap flights left and right. I don't doubt that this will effect the whole economy, but on the flip side if you have some extra cash there will definitely be deals and market inefficiencies that could be interesting...

Also, from a completely selfish angle, I'm kinda bummed that maybe this new rumored Canon cinema camera that was to be announced at NAB might get pushed further down the road. I can't imagine too many companies wanting to launch a new product (from China no less) right now. This might have been mentioned already, but I know the new Bond film premiere just got delayed like 6 months because those films make so much money worldwide (and especially in Asia).

Every year in San Diego I pick up a lot of corporate event work because so many companies have their conventions here and I imagine that will dry up considerably, we'll see...
 
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If there's a NAB and Canon goes, they'll probably say something about any new cinema releases or developments.

Any new camera would probably be shipping in the late summer/fall anyway, so not sure anything changes much on that end if all else is manageable.

Life and business has to continue...until it doesn't.
 
While in NY, I was going to swing by NorBro's.
But he was on self-quarantine, while retired...

Back on the earlier humorous/irreverent note (looking at you, DLD :happy:. And my beer definitely was not a disinfectant, it was, however, delicious!), SNL had a hilarious Coronavirus skit with Daniel Craig.
No winding bathroom entrances were involved ...

 
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