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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A mask-required reading of After the Whales Spoke, a new play written and directed by Molly Brennan, will be performed at The LAVA Center on 6 June 2026 by @heartofthearts.bsky.social

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'After the Whales Spoke' brings COVID-conscious theater to Western Massachusetts

A mask-required reading of After the Whales Spoke, a new play written and directed by Molly Brennan, will be performed at The LAVA Center on 6 June 2026.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“Like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, Andes virus is an endothelial infection spread through airborne transmission. Celebrities like Nancy Sinatra calling for mask wearing during the outbreak shows why airborne infection precautions remain essential.” 😷💕

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“Actor Wil Wheaton, best known for Star Trek: The Next Generation, has been public about mask wearing. In 2025, he said he caught COVID after Rose City Comic Con after unmaking. ‘Wow Covid sucks. It sucks so much. Do whatever you can to prevent yourself from catching it.’”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“Matt McGorry, the actor known for Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away with Murder, has spoken about living with Long COVID after two COVID infections. He has warned that Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and that avoiding infections is central to prevention.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social has been a vocal advocate of mask wearing. After the death of her longtime partner Mark Seiler in 2023, Fairchild wrote that he had Parkinson’s, but that Long COVID had taken his life: ‘Hold your loved ones close and please consider wearing a mask.’”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In September, Sarah Michelle Gellar, best known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, shared a photo wearing a high-filtration respirator mask. This followed Gellar’s 2022 account of a serious course of COVID. ‘I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don’t get this again.’”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“In April, Serj Tankian, lead vocalist of System of a Down, was photographed wearing a KN95 mask at Kavat Coffee. The photo was covered by Nu Metal Agenda. The magazine noted that, 6 months earlier, Tankian was photographed wearing a mask while signing autographs.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“In October, Tom Hanks was photographed wearing a KN95 mask on the NY subway. He addressed this on Stephen Colbert. ‘I’m doing a play right now so I cannot get sick… I’ve had COVID enough in my life, I don’t need to do that again. So I’m wearing this for health reasons.’”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“On Wednesday, May 13, singer Nancy Sinatra joined the growing list of celebrities urging mask-wearing to prevent the spread of airborne pathogens. Her post on X, formerly Twitter, read: Unsolicited advice: Wear a mask in public places. #maskup” 😷👢👢💕

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Singer Nancy Sinatra joined the growing list of celebrities urging mask-wearing to prevent the spread of airborne pathogens by @heartofthearts.bsky.social

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Nancy Sinatra: “Wear a mask in public places. #maskup”

Singer Nancy Sinatra joined the growing list of celebrities urging mask-wearing to prevent the spread of airborne pathogens.

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Kaj [they/them] @speedofhuman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Who else is going!?

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“In December 2025, comedian Jon Stewart joked about people wearing masks in workplaces. The social media backlash around the exchange generated the hashtag #oneofthetwo and calls for Stewart to interview a public health expert and correct the record.” 😷💕

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In Nov 2025, after Tom Hanks was photographed wearing a mask on the subway, in his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert promoted it as a ‘disguise.’ Even though Hanks said he wears it for ‘health reasons’ + he had been infected with COVID multiple times.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

On 18 April, Inspire presents Ron Placone’s Anti-Fascist Pasta Night, a 1-hour stand-up special with ASL interpretation.

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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

An invitation from comedian Ron Placone to YOU! Come see his new 1-hour standup special this Saturday, April 18, FREE, over Zoom! This event is part of the Inspire Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire’s Friday Night Open Mic will take place on 17 April, inviting COVID-conscious artists to share 5-minute sets + will be hosted by comedian @laurenflans.bsky.social

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“In comedy, the ongoing pandemic continues to disrupt live performance + the health of comics. In September 2025, Steve Martin canceled two tour dates after testing positive for COVID-19. This followed earlier cancellations on the same tour when Martin Short tested positive.” 😷

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Wake Up and Smell the C*VID by the anonymous collective HEPA (Holy Erotic Propaganda Arson) was a hybrid monologue performance about the impact of COVID/Long COVID on the arts. The play returns at Inspire in an encore presentation on 18 April Registration guinesspig.ghost.io/inspirefesti...

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Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware, April 15 - 19

Hello, fellow creative and Covid Conscious folks! We are thrilled to announce Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by and for the Airborne Aware. Inspire is a free, fully virtual line up of events that...

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Among the featured acts is phytocene (IG), @holo_cene (twt), a Paris-based ambient pop and ethereal artist whose work as moves through pop, trip-hop and electronica. She has become widely known in the airborne-aware community for organizing mask-required concerts in France.” 😷🎶💕

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Nina Wildflower @ninawildflower.bsky.social, another performer in the COVID-conscious music ecology, is both a musician and a science teacher who advocates for clean air. He also hosts a weekly online open mic for COVID conscious performers. 😷🎶

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire’s theater program will also include scenes from The Left by Obie award-winning playwright Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social. The Left is a choral play about those left behind ‘when all systems + people have failed one another.’ Selections from the play will be broadcast on April 19.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by and for the Airborne Aware, a free Zoom festival running 15–19 April 2026, will bring together music, theater + comedy made by COVID-conscious artists for COVID-conscious audiences. Registration at @guinesspig.bsky.social's site

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“At Inspire, COVID-conscious comedian @guinesspig.bsky.social returns with the reader’s theater piece How the Three Little Pigs Almost Learned to Live with the Big Bad Wolf, which reimagines the fairy tale through the normalization of mass infections. The play will be performed April 17.”😷

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“In theater, the early years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic opened a wide field of digital performances. However, with the removal of clean-air measures and the taboo of acknowledging the pandemic, it has fallen to COVID-conscious theater-makers to create their own spaces.”😷🎭

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by and for the Airborne Aware. A free Zoom festival running 15–19 April 2026, will bring together music, theater and comedy made by COVID-conscious artists for COVID-conscious audiences. 😷🎭💕

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A free Zoom festival will bring together music, theater and comedy made by COVID-conscious artists for COVID-conscious audiences by Protect the Heart of the Arts

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Inspire Festival for the Airborne Aware marks a new chapter in COVID-conscious arts

The free Zoom festival will bring together music, theater and comedy made by COVID-conscious artists for COVID-conscious audiences

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Population studies have disaggregated excess deaths by causes and age groups. A Lancet paper examining post-2020 excess mortality reported that, in adults ages 50-64 deaths involving cardiovascular diseases were 33% higher than expected. Nicholas Brendon falls into this cohort.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Nicholas Brendon’s is the sixth death of a major The WB cast member since 2024. These deaths come when there is also a measurable increase in mortality in the age cohort that made up much of Buffy’s original audience, and the WB era generally... But why? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

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Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024

Nicholas Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic?

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Epidemiological data do not become less true or less relevant because someone finds the conversation unpleasant.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Accepting that COVID has killed tens of millions more people than reported implies a magnitude of institutional failure that is psychologically costly to internalize. Even in a crisis of government legitimacy the belief that the system will alert people to health risks remains”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“The number of people experiencing Long COVID which meets diagnostic criteria is estimated to be between 5%-20% of all people. The WHO estimates that 1 in 20 people worldwide had Long COVID as of 2023. The CDC estimates that 1 in 5 people develop post-acute COVID sequelae.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“The narrative of a high-profile death is often shaped by what representatives choose to release. If the only acceptable language is whatever passes through a PR filter, premature deaths that align with COVID excess death probabilities will continue to be described as normal.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Mis-coding according to apparent cause of death led to undercounting in previous pandemics. A CDC study found that between 1983-1986, HIV/AIDS was listed as the cause in only 46% of deaths among people with AIDS. Many others were recorded as pneumonia or other infections.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“If the weight of evidence points to an exponential increase in excess deaths from COVID since 2020, and the recent deaths of 6 WB stars are consistent with this shifted baseline, how are people not noticing? Or, if they are noticing, why are they shifting to the next topic?”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“COVID can lead to aggressive cancers. James Van Der Beek, Shannen Doherty + Julian McMahon died from cancers between the ages of 48-56. SARS-CoV-2 creates immune dysregulation, reducing tumor surveillance + creating inflammation. This is why cancers behave more aggressively.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Nicholas Brendon’s is the sixth death of a major WB cast member since 2024. James Van Der Beek died in February 2026, age 48. Shannen Doherty died from breast cancer in July 2024, at 53. Julian McMahon died at age 56 in July 2025. Eric Dane died in February 2026 at age 53.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“What’s counted as a COVID death is a narrow range of cases with a documented recent infection. This skews toward respiratory deaths in the acute stage, rather than the deaths that occur later as heart attacks, organ failure, strokes, or pneumonias secondary to COVID infections.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“The conservative estimate of 20 million excess COVID deaths means many more people are experiencing bereavement. Dunbar’s model estimates an inner circle of 15 people. This means 300 million people losing someone in their close circle, approximately the populations of the U.S.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Instead of concluding that Nicholas Brendon’s death was sad but unavoidable— as were the deaths of Michelle Trachtenberg, Shannen Doherty, James Van Der Beek, Julian McMahon and Eric Dane —we can recognize that it happened in the context of tens of millions of premature deaths.

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Nicholas Brendon had clinical vulnerabilities, including a congenital heart defect. Repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections worsens this trajectory. A Nature Medicine study found that after COVID infections people have a higher risk of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

”Population studies have disaggregated excess deaths by causes and age groups. A Lancet paper examining post-2020 excess mortality reported that in adults age 50–64 deaths involving cardiovascular diseases were 33% higher than expected. Nicholas Brendon falls into this cohort.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Another WB star, Alyssa Milano, went public with her Long COVID diagnosis in 2021. ‘I have always had every symptom imaginable. Shortness of breath, heart palpitations, brain fog, exhaustion at 4 o’clock in the evening, tingling in my hands and feet and just forgetfulness.’”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“In 2022, Buffy’s Sarah Michelle Gellar reported her first COVID infection. “‘COVID finally got me. To those that say ‘it’s just a cold’, for this (relatively) young fit person that is not my experience. I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don’t get this again.’”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“When people hear ‘COVID deaths,’ many think of a respiratory virus that kills people in the acute phase of infection. But COVID is a vascular disease. COVID can have respiratory symptoms because the airway is a common transmission site, but the underlying disease is systemic.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Since 2020, the COVID pandemic has officially contributed approximately 7.1 million deaths, according to the WHO. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that this figure is a significant undercount. The Economist counts between 20-35 million excess deaths from COVID.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Nicholas Brendon’s death comes when there is a measurable increase in mortality in the age cohort that made up Buffy’s original audience. A 2025 JAMA Network Open study found that mortality among adults aged 25-44 was dramatically higher than expected based on pre-2011 trends”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Nicholas Brendon’s death is the second of a major Buffy cast member in 13 months. Michelle Trachtenberg, who joined Buffy as Dawn Summers, was 39 when she died in February 2025 from complications of diabetes mellitus.”

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Protect the Heart of the Arts 💕🎗️🌈 😷 @heartofthearts.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

“Nicholas Brendon has died. Brendon, who played Xander Harris in Buffy the Vampire Slayer from 1997 to 2003, passed away at age 54. His family’s statement said he “passed in his sleep of natural causes.” His death is the sixth of a major WB cast member since 2024.”

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024 Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

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Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024

Nicholas Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic?

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