- The latest UK coronavirus update is that while visitors from many countries, including the US, will be required to be quarantined for 14 days to make sure they don’t have the virus, some new exceptions have been announced to that rule.
- Some Hollywood actors and film crews are exempt from the quarantine requirement in order to boost the UK film industry.
- The Twitter politicians who announced this news on Twitter over the weekend were heavily criticized by responding Twitter users, who complained that wealthy movie actors don’t necessarily need help right now.
British politician Oliver Dowden took to Twitter on Sunday to say that the UK had usefully enacted exemptions to its rules that force visitors to be quarantined, making it an exception for movie stars like Tom Cruise to filmmakers can resume “making the best box office hits again. “The exemptions were enacted because, because the coronavirus pandemic has been delayed in the UK (and sickened more than 286,000 people there, according to the latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University), the The government decided to require visitors from certain countries, including the United States, to be quarantined for 14 days to ensure that they are free of coronaviruses.
Exceptions to this quarantine rule, as Dowden explained on Twitter over the weekend, now include wealthy Hollywood movie stars who are apparently immune to the virus.
Unsurprisingly, Dowden is roasted in the comments to this tweet:
In all likelihood, of course, there are teams and a strong healthcare infrastructure around movies and actors like Cruise, so it will be relatively easy for them to get a coronavirus test before they arrive and show their negative coronavirus results as they beat. Within the country. Leaving aside the obvious follow-up question to that: why can’t I show up with the results of a negative coronavirus test without having to be quarantined for 14 days in the UK? – There is a broader reality of the terrible perspective of this movement.
“I’m glad to see that Tom Cruise is working a little the same way. ARE YOU VERY HIGH?” Wrote a Twitter user in response.
And other: “Phew! Tom Cruise can re-shoot! AND THE THEATERS ?????? !!!!!! @OliverDowden There are thousands of artists, places, companies with no chance of survival right now! What are you doing?! Come on! #savethearts “
As you can see in the image above, Dowden (who is also the UK’s secretary of culture) had a conversation last week with Cruise about how to restart production in the next Mission Impossible movie. “The world’s biggest box office hits and high-end television shows are made in Britain,” a Dowden statement read, by Variety. “Our creativity, experience and highly successful tax breaks for our display industries means that we are a highly sought after location that in turn offers a great return for our economy. We want the industry to recover and exempting small amounts of cast and essential equipment from quarantine is part of our continued commitment to get the cameras back up and running safely. “
Here is the list of countries the UK is now exempting from its quarantine rules for newcomers (United States, I should say, is not on that list). What this means, among other things, is that filming is set to recover Mission: Impossible 7 at Warner Bros Studios Studios in London.
Aside from this news, the UK government announced a £ 1.57 billion rescue package on Sunday for its struggling arts sector. The news was tweeted by British Chancellor Rishi Sunak:
Andy is a reporter in Memphis and also contributes to media like Fast Company and The Guardian. When he’s not writing about technology, he can be found protectively hunched over his burgeoning vinyl collection, as well as guarding his whovianism and binging on a variety of television shows he probably won’t like.
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