Tom Hanks Tests Positive Covid-19

[Maydup]

He and his wife are in Australia, when they felt unwell they were tested.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-hollywood-star-tom-hanks-and-his-wife-test-positive-11955861

[ummmm]

How do they actually test for it?

[seekeerz]

Mouth swabs and temp. checks - we've got several places where you can book in, then drive in, wind down your window and nursing staff take swabs, etc and then you drive out - beats sitting in a Drs room or queuing outside a hospital

[seekeerz]

Doubt the Hanks had to queue for their tests though :))

[emmie]

probably not ^^

[1ozzy]

Is Hollywood to blame for spreading the virus or was it caught here?

Hmm, note to self, buy more toilet paper!!

[emmie]

who knows, but having it doesn't seem much fun

[1ozzy]

Having any illness is not much fun.

But, over reactions instil a bit of mirth.

[emmie]

could be, are you ok, haven't seen you about for a while

[1ozzy]

I'm just chilling thanks Emmie.
All good!
Hope you are too

[emmie]

not too bad, no cold or virus, at least not mixing with those who might have it...
i won my benefit case which was worrying me, so now i don't have to go to any tribunal...

[1ozzy]

Even though we are off topic Emmie, well done.
I hope things start to improve.

[emmie]

thank you

[Maydup]

The couple are being treated at the Gold Coast Hospital in Queensland. Not an area with many cases, they probably caught it elsewhere.

[Ken4155]

Do hope we're not going to have a new Covid 19 thread every time someone of note catches it. We'll end up with more C19 threads than we had Brexit threads:-(

[emmie]

at least that has been put on the back burner for the moment....^^

[ichkeria]

“Pédants corner”
(Well sort of)

What they tested positive for was the virus :-)

[mallyh]

"we will keep the world posted and updated " that's good of him

[douglas9401]

He'll take comfort from the fact that he won't have the runs Forrest, runs.

[mushroom25]

life is like a box of chocolates - it's full of Corona....

[cassa333]

Someone on Heavy Pencil the other day asked when did we think filming of large crowd scenes would get cancelled.

I said not until at least 100 of us SAs died. But apparently it’s when all the stars go running for the hills and jump off the filming bandwagon.

To my knowledge three forthcoming big crowd scenes have been cancelled this week.

Considering there can be more crew than SAs on set I wonder if they will still have smaller scenes or not?

My thought is probably cancel all but the die hard productions.