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I spent a fair amount of the day explaining to strangers why it's not actually possible for me to unilaterally pull gigs, without becoming liable for the revenue lost. If you feel everything needs to be cancelled (and that is going to have a devastating effect on many lives) then it's up to the government. Until they say gatherings are forbidden then the theatres have a more difficult and costly deal to cancel too. I am honest enough to say I don't know anything (unlike everyone on Twitter) but the experts seem to be saying that most of us are going to get this one way or another and the huge damage of trying to shut everything down and locking people up with each other will lead to just as awful consequences as if we all go round spitting in each other's faces for the next month (maybe not, but what I am saying is that there will be more ways to die than from the virus). We have to attempt to manage the spread and keeping your hands clean and self-isolating if you've got the symptoms would seem to be the best way of doing that. People will never stay locked up for four months, not unless they are in a high-risk group and even then… If you've only got a few months left do you really want to spend them on your own?
I don't think people have really thought through what self-isolation will mean for their mental health or for the people who won't be able to make a living or for the families that can't even get through Christmas without being at each other's throats.
I am lucky enough to have writing projects and other ways to make a living, but many people are living hand to mouth. I suspect the government won't do anything for them. The lucky ones with work or with salaries must think of ways NOW to help those who don't.
I was still fatigued and mercifully extremely snotty today (which is not a symptom of the big one) and took it fairly easy. We had a family gathering, though sensibly the family member who is a carer kept away just in case. Perhaps the answer is to stay in reasonable sized tribes of people who are not in danger and deal with the virus together when it hits. It's a really scary time. I have elderly parents and an asthmatic brother so I am not in any way glib about this.
And though it looks likely that I am going to lose a lot of income in the coming months, I should be able to manage.
I am gearing up to work out how to get Twitch working and will be adding some content over the next few weeks. And we will stream some live RHLSTPs (if we are still doing them).
Please follow me on my channel to find out when I am going to be live and if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can link your account to Twitch. First go to
http://twitch.tv and sign up. Then
use this link to link your Amazon Prime and Twitch accounts
And then go to my channel, click subscribe and choose the option to use your free subscription. We get paid and you pay nothing, but it doesn't auto renew so come back every month and do the same if you want to keep paying us.
There are also options to pay for a sub - I wouldn't do that yet, but once we're up and running you will have to be paying to get some of the content (like the live streamed podcasts).
You don't have to subscribe or even follow me to watch most of the content - though any live streamed RHLSTPs (especially ones in theatres) will only be available to top subscribers.
In this time of plague this might be a good way for me to keep doing live shows and for you to chuck me a bit of cash to keep us going. We will use this money to make more podcasts and for filming costs of RHLSTP. And maybe to help out the artistic community if we find we're making enough to do that.
