Dances with vax+mask policy I know offhand with no reported spreads, despite a culture of "please test if you feel ill, please tell us, and we will tell dancers":
Greenfield, MA BIDA, MA Concord, MA Downtown Amherst Contra, MA Rainbow Contra in Western Mass Pioneer Valley's ECD Montpelier, VT (I believe?) Glen Echo, MD Pinewoods camp weeks that had this policy, at least masking and testing for 3 days Albany Contra, NY (I am pretty sure) Portland, ME's new series Unsure about CDNY, but I am pretty sure too. -Julian On Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 10:17 PM Joe Harrington via Organizers < [email protected]> wrote: > I know we all hate them, but some dances are still requiring masks. Has > there been documented spread at a dance where everyone is in a (K)N95 or > better, like a Breeze 99? How about vax+mask or vax+test+mask? I think we > all know that vax+test-mask=spread, from numerous events this past summer > and since. > > I'd also be interested in a professional opinion on whether our gyrations > mean anything if we're not also masking full time when we're out and > about. I know the theory, dance is more breathing and close up for a long > time, but the new variants are so infectious that I wonder if that > matters. If you're getting 10x the infectious dose in the grocery store, > protection during a dance wouldn't matter much. It's like locking the > doors and leaving all the windows open. But, maybe it's 0.1x the > infectious dose at the grocery, and our measures do matter. I'm only > interested in data, not speculation. Does anyone have any? > > --jh-- > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 4:37 PM Heitzso via Organizers < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> My wife got covid at Roanoke Railroader last summer and I got it from her. >> I researched then (so relevant to variants then, not necessarily current >> variants) >> and most transmission occurs 1 to 2 days before testing to 2 to 3 days >> after testing. >> I don't know if that is relevant to this discussion because ... >> I assume most people test when they start to feel different from normal >> health ... >> which might explain the "1 to 2 days before testing" transmission >> and that's different from a "test regardless of how you feel to dance" >> testing policy. >> But, I do not know that. That just happens to be the data. >> >> Turkey Quicky, a mini-weekend, fortunately escaped covid spread though >> someone tested positive Saturday morning after dancing Friday night. >> (most dancers were unmasked) >> A KY weekend dance before TQ had a roughly 20% covid >> spread with a recent negative test and a negative test on entry policy. >> >> I'm not saying what policy should or should not be enacted to >> prevent the spread of covid. I'm just noting one official statistic >> and two recent weekend dances data points. >> >> -Heitzso >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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