PNT commentary: Just a couple of days ago the Porn News Today team opened a health concern investigation into the Zero Tolerance adult content studio (due to the social media revelations revolving around alcoholic pornographer Mike Quasar’s girlfriend – and Zero Tolerance production manager – Scarlet Sade’s situation which could easily lead to Quasar’s sets becoming GROUND ZERO for Coronavirus transmission in the pornography industry), but Mike Quasar’s sets are likely not the only problem.

If Brad Armstrong waited this long to only superficially clean his studio sets – just imagine how extreme of a COVID-19 health risk pornography sets in general are.

Just imagine how many germs could be festering at Brad Armstrong of Wicked Pictures home studio sets… What about Holly and Suze Randall’s adult content production ranch? Could the Coronavirus be lurking in in plain sight at LA Direct Model’s shooting locations?

LAtimes.com

Hollywood and hygiene: Sanitary conditions in the age of coronavirus

For the entertainment industry, the coronavirus crisis has provided an unwelcome lesson in the hidden perils of working in the kind of high-touch, densely populated environments required of movie-and-TV-making. At the same time, the highly infectious virus has shed light on one of Hollywood’s dirtiest secrets: the often questionable sanitary conditions that have long existed on sets.

Until now, lackadaisical hygiene has largely been accepted as part of the job. While production was shut down in an effort to slow the virus’ spread, the global pandemic has stirred debate on established cleanliness practices, raising broader questions and concerns about the definition of safe work spaces in Hollywood, particularly among production crews who are often the most exposed.

“Nobody cleans sets,” said Lawrence Karman, 65, a camera operator (“The Amazing Spider-Man,” “Veronica Mars”). “If I’m on a stage they call wrap and everyone leaves and they lock the doors and then open it up at call.”

Karman recalled working on a shoot in downtown Los Angeles next to piles of excrement and needles. “That’s the reality of Downtown L.A., that’s what do you do,” Karman said. “You just try not to get too close to it and keep working.”

Current circumstances have forced many to consider whether there must be a choice between budgets and well-being.

“It’s expensive to clean every stand, sandbag and lens and that all takes time,” said the Santa Monica-based Karman. “The way we work, I get overtime after eight hours and double-time after 12. We work 12 to 14 hours a day. The last thing a producer wants is to pay more overtime.”

While Karman knows vaccines and testing for COVID-19 will offer the best chance to ensuring safe work environments, he believes sanitation on set will likely become more of a priority among studio executives and showrunners when production resumes.

“It wasn’t a liability before,” he said. “It is now.”

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