TBH, I'm ROTFL. FWIW, IMO I think BTBA's SNAFU needs addressing IRL - how did COVID and NY pass your filter? SMH. LOL. IDK, but YOLO and I think it's NBD when a post gives you all the information spelled out and the insignificant bit is an acronym. But NWM, IAG! CYA on the flip side, TTYL. JK. ;-)
-DV On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 2:15 PM Paul Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks > > Two of my pet peeves are on this thread: > > 1. I do not know who the email writer "Being Better" is , and also where > that person lives. For the purposes of most of these dialogues, this is > useful information > > 2. I am setting up a new organization: *BTBA* *(Ban Those > Blasted Acronyms)* > This in response to (lower on the page) the newest one I have discovered > through Google means "If I recall Correctly": *IIRC* > > 3. I also had to google "virtue signaling", which I guessed correctly. > Although I continue to waiver about wearing a mask (I am wearing it indoors > now because the Albany, NY area is now experiencing a spike in COVID). But > after I got the latest Omicron booster and while rates were lower, I was > only masking when in tight indoor spaces. > > I am calling a dance at a wedding Saturday, and at this point, I do not > expect to be wearing a mask. But I am already feeling kind of guilty about > it. > And yes, sometimes during low rates and outdoors, I look at masked people > as maybe an example of virtue signaling, but when I think more about it, I > realize there could be many many reasons that are none of my business: > maybe they are immune compromised, or maybe they really care about > protecting others from getting COVID, or maybe it is a way to encourage > others to mask and therefore have a better chance of avoiding being > infected. > > > Paul Rosenberg > Albany, NY > www.homespun.biz > *Joy Through Traditional Dance & Live Fiddle Music* > 518-482-9255 > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 1:21 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]> 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]> 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] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Organizers mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >
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