**PRESS COVERAGE** @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social has published an article on the Protect the Heart of the Arts BAFTAs Long COVID ribbon giveaway. The event will be Sunday 18 Feb. Likes/shares help get the word out! ❤️❤️ bylines.cymru/arts-and-cul... @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com @jerilryan.bsky.social

Anything resonate with the HIV-AIDS situation in 80s-90s? I'm old enough to remember. China are now treating SARS2 same way. Since the Wuhan (smoking guns), people go "back home" to recover (or die). After 4 yrs now, I simply want a care-home bed. #LongCovid is killing us, slowly but assuredly.

Really great project in Great Britain!

COVID is an Arts Leadership issue

**MORE PRESS** British Theatre Guide covered “Protect the Heart of the Arts,” sounding the alarm on the Long Covid crisis in the performing arts. Editor Philip Fisher mentions critics & performers ill for weeks with Covid. www.britishtheatreguide.info/features/ala... cc @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

**MORE PRESS COVERAGE** Radio New Zealand — NZ’s equivalent of BBC Radio — covered the “Protect the Heart of the Arts” mask handout at David Tennant’s Macbeth. Performers with Long Covid sounded the alarm on the Long Covid crisis in the performing arts. www.rnz.co.nz cc @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

Congrats to movement member Damian Fell for passing his MA thesis defence with 98%(!!).

just finished the defence of my thesis on Good Omens. got excellent results - 98%!!! it was a great pleasure and an even bigger honour to research your and Terry Pratchett's work, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

Well done!!

Excellent. Fans protecting artists for the win.

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

#ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts @DonmarWarehouse for Macbeth starring #DavidTennant COVID safe performances and venues for punters and players 😷 London 🇬🇧 and the world 🗺️

*PRESS COVERAGE!* Bylines Cymru’s🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 article on “Protect the Heart of the Arts” mask hand-out at David Tennant’s Macbeth. Performers with Long Covid will sound the alarm on Covid’s devastating impact on performing arts.😷 TONIGHT Sat 16 Dec 6 pm, Donmar Warehouse, London. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

’Alas, poor country!’: performers suffering from long Covid to distribute masks at David Tennant’s Macbeth tonight Performing artists, staff, and patrons are impacted by long Covid. Venues need mitigations including masks. Covid is airborne and not over.

Vaccines and masks. So easy to prevent killing and disabling people !

**LONDON MASK HAND-OUT** #ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts, a campaign of performers suffering from Long Covid, and allies, will sound the alarm on Covid’s devastating impact on the performing arts. Likes/shares help get the word out. ProtectTheHeartOfTheArts.carrd.co cc @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com has requested audience masking at his live events.😷😷 He also encourages people to stay updated on their vaccines.

Last day to enter our giveaway 👇

**EXPLAINER** After 600+ Clinically Vulnerable people supported a request for improved Covid safety, London theatre Donmar Warehouse is considering the offer of free HEPA. We also hope for masking support.😷🌈 www.okdoomer.io/clinically-v... cc: @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, @jerilryan.bsky.social

FYI Fans MASK UP has been directly lobbying Donmar Warehouse for Covid mitigations over a month. We started with a letter writing campaign, then tried to get a meeting. Accessible Air offered Donmar a free HEPA system. We are writing open letters because we have exhausted options for direct contact.

Definitely! In his second episode “New Earth,” the Tenth Doctor cured people of disease, then gave them all hugs. This man is passionate about public health.❤️❤️ youtu.be/S5Injt7qDTY?...

Thanks for sharing! You’re right. Covid is a serious vascular disease with severe and cumulative damage. We’re all vulnerable. Last month, we published an explainer on this topic. It uses David Tennant as an example for how everyone is actually high-risk. bsky.app/profile/fans...

This is good, but it might be even better to explain that EVERYONE — yes, even *you* — is vulnerable when it comes to #Covid. Yes, it’s ableist, and it sucks that this has to be said, but appealing to the selfishness of many well people could help.

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Hi Neil, In case you missed this, could you share the post below? It’s an open letter from 300+ fans about accessibility for clincially vulnerable fans at David Tennant’s shows. Accessible Air has offered Donmar a free HEPA set-up. They just need to say yes. Thanks!❤️

*OPEN LETTER TO DAVID TENNANT* Clinically Vulnerable fans can’t safely attend events. With support from 300+ fans, we’re sharing this letter to David. We ask for his help advocating for HEPA filtration at Donmar Warehouse where he’s playing Macbeth. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Are you ok sharing?

Hi Neil, Thanks for responding! We know David’s not on social. We’ve sent him a letter, so this post is to get the word out about fans with clinical vulnerabilities. Accessible Air offered Donmar a free HEPA setup, but they haven’t responded. So we’re trying to raise the profile of the campaign.

@jerilryan.bsky.social Thank you so much for the positive nod to the #SaveDavidTennant Explainer. And for modeling how venues, especially fan conventions, can provide COVID mitigations that protect guests, attendees and staff.❤️ ❤️ 😷 😷

As a performer I appreciate these articles HUGELY. Thank you. I think many in the fandom communities are covid conscious. Octocon, here in Ireland, was fully masked, & also had online attendance options. Fantastic crew.

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com I’m not sure if you’re aware of the ##SaveDavidTennant movement on Twitter right now. After hearing that you are sick again, fans got scared. Dozens around the world worked to deliver N95s, a portable personal HEPA filter, and a handout to him at NYCC last night

#SaveDavidTennant is a direct action of #FansMASKUP. We’re an advocacy organisation sounding the alarm on unprecedented numbers of performers becoming disabled and dying from COVID infections. The goals of #SaveDavidTennant are safer venues, raising awareness and the resourcing of public health.

#FansMASKUP started the gdoc, “What COVID-19 is Doing to Performers,” recording news of performer illnesses and deaths. It is not exhaustive and there’s a backlog of 100s. docs.google.com/document/d/1... We also wrote an explainer article “COVID-19 is Killing Performers”: medium.com/@cdl.tuebing...

#FansMASKUP also wrote “Someone Infected Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com with COVID-19: After venues refused to enforce audience masking.” It includes step-by-step instructions for advocating for safer venues on individual, institutional and policy levels: www.okdoomer.io/someone-infe...

@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com The #SaveDavidTennant explainer is on twitter-x. It explains how: -COVID reinfections are causing serious, cumulative damage -Venues enable this by refusing mitigations -We can stop people from infecting others with personal and policy change twitter.com/waltz_tales/...

Thanks for sharing, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com! The Full #SaveDavidTennant Explainer is now on bluesky. It sounds the alarm on actors becoming disabled and dying from COVID reinfections, provides info for stopping the spread, and a call-to-action for safer venues and resourcing of public health.