Hi everyone, Please keep this about your dance's covid policy. This is not a place to debate the effectiveness of masks, vaccines, etc.
Seth (moderator) > On Oct 5, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Being Better via Organizers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > In my group our old group had been shut down since 2020 partially because the > leadership couldn't agree about covid mitigation policies. In spring of 2022 > myself and one of the other people in the group decided to reopen it without > any covid policy, just allowing people to do what they felt was best as far > as masks, vaccines, tests etc. This approach won't please everyone because > some people won't go unless everyone's vaccinated but we have had a pretty > good turnout every dance that we've had. We've danced once a month March > through June, then took a break and came back in September and will be > dancing through December. I've made an effort to avoid spelling out a covid > policy in our Facebook group, because I've been afraid that bring it up will > get people fighting arguing and debating endlessly about the severity of > covid and what should be done about it. I never saw anyone else take this > approach, I don't know if it's a good approach, but this is what I do. I've > even gone so far as to delete comments where people ask about our covid > policy just to keep it off of people's minds. But I do always answer those > people through Messenger privately. > > I'm not aware of anyone who's got covid from my dances, but I don't do > contact tracing so I don't know. I used to always bring masks l, not K95 > masks, but since no one ever took one anyone wearing a mask always brought > their own I threw them out and stopped bringing them. > > The way I see it is if you think the covid is a serious enough risk to need > multiple vaccines and a heavy duty mask then maybe you shouldn't be dancing > at all. But if your viewpoint is that covid is just something we're going to > have to live with and that the disease has a 98% survival rate, then I don't > see what the big deal is just use common sense and and don't allow sick > people to come who are obviously sick. I've never had anyone obviously sick, > but if someone did come I would just tell them they I couldn't come in. > > At this point let's admit so much of the mask wearing is just virtue > signaling. I've had people tell me they've been exposed to covid and they > come wearing a mask by the end of the night they're not wearing it anymore. > I've had people come and not wear a mask at my dance, but then they organize > a dance in their town and they enforce 95 masks for everybody, including > themselves. > > The way I see it is people's vaccine status is none of my business the issue > is so much more complicated than "have you had a vaccine". No one's talking > about legitimate valid reasons for people to not get vaccinated. And I > personally don't trust rapid covid tests, because I've been pretty darn sure > I've had covid but I've never ever tested positive for covid since I started > testing. > > My policies, or non policy, seems to please a lot of people and has been > successful so far. > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 1:12 PM Don Veino via Organizers > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > IIRC, in one of the COVID rescue bills passed, there was a specific exemption > for organizations protecting them from suits for people being infected as > part of operation. > > That said, in the US, pretty much anybody can pursue a suit against anyone > for anything at any time - the waivers help to discourage such and may help > later as evidence of informed consent toward *defending against* the case. > > -Don > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 11:55 AM Lissa Bengtson via Organizers > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Have there been dance groups sued because someone caught Covid at a dance? > Is that what a waiver prevents? How did they prove they caught it at the > dance? > > Lissa Bengtson > San Antonio > > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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