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Hollywood studio Lionsgate brings back mask mandate amid Covid spike

www.theguardian.com Hollywood studio Lionsgate brings back mask mandate amid Covid spike

The studio behind John Wick and The Hunger Games has reinstated the use of masks after several employees tested positive for Covid-19

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So far the only comments are from dumbfucks.

The workplace is not a democracy, and you have no inherent right to place others in danger.

Mask up buttercup, it literally does not hurt anyone and saves lives.
- it also saves the company time and money when youre working and not sick at home doing nothing
- Do I really have to put an /s after every comment? Or is every dumbfuck so cynical that they can’t recognize sarcasm?
  
  Edit: Mask up. It doesn’t hurt.
This was planned by big AI. Can’t strike when you’re on a respirator.
- I'm surprised this is being downvoted so heavily. It's clearly satire. I guess the rest of the thread being completely serious has something to do with it.
  
  Humor is being lost to the existential dread. Enjoy it while you can.
I hope that these decisions don't become more widespread.

Edit: For the sake of clarity, I, of course, respect the fact that a private business is free to make such decisions, and I do understand that the likely reason for this decision was to, as was mentioned, reduce profit loss by keeping employees healthy, but I still do not wish for mask mandates to make a widespread return; their all-too-recent existence is not a memory that I think too fondly of.
- Why? Does it personally affect you?
  
  If it were to, once again, become more widespread, then, yes, it would begin to personally affect me, just as it already has.
- TSA mandates will be announced in about a week. It's already been leaked. Two weeks to slow the spread. Literally. Same playbook as last time. I expect them to stick around for much much longer.
  
  It's been a week, I'm still waiting on those TSA mandates. ... Hell, I'm still waiting on the National Guard's mass round-ups into those non-existent FEMA camps ....
  
  TSA mandates will be announced in about a week. It’s already been leaked.
  
  Do you have any source for that claim?
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I think this is too much. Most people have vaccine induced immunity or natural (or both), so this seems really pointless. Not to mention the current Omricon variant yields less severe symptoms.
- How does that make sense if cases are rising? If current vaccinations and natural immunity were sufficient, cases wouldn’t be rising.
  
  And while cases overall are less serious, that doesn’t mean you’re not playing roulette when you get it. I have a friend whose heart was damaged by omicron and it will affect the rest of her life. She’s only in her 30’s.
  
  Yeah, that’s a fair point. I wasn’t thinking straight there 😅
- A lot of employees out sick = less work being done
  
  Less severe symptoms doesn't mean they are still showing up to work.
- I'm 2+1 and tested positive for COVID last week. Immunity wanes.
- Both Eris and Fornax can make people pretty sick, even though they're not causing a lot of deaths. Once the new Moderna vaccine is out, if people get it, that should help.
  
  But we're also starting to see flu and RSV cases, and masks help prevent those from spreading as well.
  
  It doesn't really matter which respiratory virus is keeping a quarter of your people home sick, or home with their sick kids, or being at work but miserable and useless and infecting others, it's still going to mess with your ability to get shit done.
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