Shut it down 🔒

This is probably the worst time to do a survival show, when we're still in a pandemic . It brings so many people in to close quarters, making any sort of illness very easy to spread. Not to mention being on a survival type show, the trainees are probably not sleeping or eating well and are over exerting their bodies, which probably doesn't help in the health department.

I remember watching Idol Producer a few years ago, on the show, you see them vaguely mention a trainee missing a day of practice here and there because they were sick. But during an extra behind the scenes clip they aired after the episodes, you see the mentors (including Jackson Wang) visit the trainee dorms and you just see the number of trainees who were sick during the show, likely because it kept spreading from one trainee to the next. And ever since I saw these clips, this fact has always stuck in my mind about these survival shows, the fact that trainees could be sick during these times but still powering through because it's a competition but in the process, further spreading illness.