I'd be interested in organizers policies in terms of acquiring data. For example, most masked dances I know do a combination of: - proactively asking dancers to test if they have any symptoms (some as long as 10 days) - proactively asking dancers to report positive results - requiring tests for entry - etc
I guess what I'd like to know how dances show that they are heeding "absence of data is not data of absense" In dance, Julian Blechner On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 4:47 PM greeneneerg--- via Organizers < organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Thank you all for such a thoughtful and lively discussion! I have nothing > much to add but, as one of the organizers of the Lenox, MA monthly dance > series, I thought I'd simply report on our policy and what we've observed > since restarting our dance last July. For 2022, our COVID-19 policy had > three possibilities based on the COVID-19 community levels in our county > and one neighboring county as indicated by the CDC COVID-19 tracker. If > both counties were low (green), the dance would be unrestricted (requiring > neither proof of vaccination nor masks), If either county was high (red), > the dance would be canceled. And if either county was medium (yellow) but > neither red, the dance would require masks. Of the six dances we had in > 2022, five were unrestricted and one (in October) required masks. None were > canceled. > > Starting this month, we have modified the policy to be a binary one: > either the dance would be unrestricted (neither county red) or canceled > (either county red). For those who may be interested, here's a link to our > COVID-19 policy and the rationale for it: > https://lenoxcontradance.org/Restart_Policy.pdf > > To the best of our knowledge, there has not been a COVID-19 outbreak > resulting from any of the dances in Lenox. In fact, no one has reported > testing positive for COVID-19 after attending any of these dances. I would > guess that maybe 20% of our dancers wear masks, nearly all of them over the > age of 50. We really don't know anything about the vaccination status of > our dancers as we've made it a point not to ask. I would also guess that > our attendance is down 15 to 20% as compared to pre-COVID dances. Our > poorest attended dance was the one in October when we required masks. > > There are two other dance series in our area that have adopted very > similar COVID-19 policies: a monthly series in Chatham, NY (Cococontra) and > a bimonthly series in Sheffield, MA. They both started back up recently. > > I think I speak for many people here in the Berkshires when I say that we > are very happy to be back dancing! > > - Jon Greene > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- organizers@lists.sharedweight.net > To unsubscribe send an email to organizers-le...@lists.sharedweight.net >
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