I have long covid from the single time I’ve ever had covid. I’m not a singer or a dancer, but if I got all the right training, I think my long covid symptoms limits my ability to physically endure performing a concert. These superstars are constantly sharing air with thousands of people in single nights. In airports, at shows, dance practice, parties, meetings. Are they hiding the news? Do they just view it as the flu and don’t think it’s worth reporting? What’s happening?
it’s probably worth noting that marquee-level / celebrity entertainment is an industry where the talent pool far exceeds the labor demands of capital. to put another way: there are so many more talented people out there who would be just as entertaining for whatever audience a platform reaches than there are positions gatekept by those that own the platform.
people have been getting chewed up and spit out since always, and there’s a whole giant machine devoted to focusing us on the “new” and distracting us from those left behind or pushed aside… unless there’s a last little bit of entertainment to squeeze from a star’s tragic fall from grace.