One more thought...
If you participated in this potential superspreader event, you could be
held legally liable for people's illnesses and possible death.
-Elizabeth Szekeres
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:21 AM Laur via Contra Callers <
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Alan, so well put.
Personally, even if I wouldn’t be within breathing range, I would not feel
comfortable facilitating an event that potentially would be a danger to
others.
Laurie Pietravalle
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On Thursday, August 26, 2021, 5:14 PM, Mary Collins via Contra Callers <
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I have a wedding Oct 4 and while like Susan, am planning easy dances and
all guests are to be vaccinated, I am beginning to feel anxious about it.
Mary Collins
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021, 4:59 PM Tepfer, Seth via Contra Callers <
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Not to mention Lambda variant is already on US soil, and Lambda is
vaccine-resistant.
There will come a time it will feel both physically and psychologically
safe to dance again. But it will not be soon.
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*From:* Winston, Alan P. via Contra Callers <
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*Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 4:51 PM
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contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net>gt;; Susan English <senglish(a)umich.edu>
*Subject:* [External] [Callers] Re: Modified Wedding Dance
Susan --
I would cancel.
Delta is projected to keep getting worse through October/November so
September will still be on the upward slope.
Even with your restrictions and outdoors, an unknowing asymptotic spreader
could infect many people, even vaccinated people. The six feet social
distance idea was based on the previous SARS and being outdoors is not
perfect protection, nor is being vaccinated. I'd feel okay holding an
outdoors dance if it's all vaccinated and all masked (not because there's
zero risk of spreading but because it's low risk and because vaccination
does seem to be very effective against severe enough cases to be
hospitalized or die, although there's certainly the cchance that somebody
could catch it at the wedding and then give it unknowingly to vulnerable
people who didn't even attend. You could make it clear that there's this
risk and encourage people to quarantine after until they get a negative
test result, but you can't make it happen.)
If you're mixing vaccinated and unvaccinated people (people who can't
(children under 12) or people who won't) - well, I'd find the risk
unacceptably high absent onsite testing for everyone before they go on the
floor.
-- Alan.
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From: Susan English via Contra Callers <
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2021 8:15 AM
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Subject: [Callers] Modified Wedding Dance
I am scheduled to provide an outdoor dance at a wedding in Ohio on Sept.
4. The musicians have bowed out, so it would be just me with recorded
music, on formica sheets (!) over a large brick patio. Here are
modifications I am considering:
* mask optional
* dance only with chosen partner, i.e. no mixers
* can swing chosen partner but otherwise hand contact only (e.g.
circle, star, dosidos, AL R&L, sashay)
* no long lines F&B
With these rules I can modify and call:
* big circle dances
* squares
* Sicilian circles
* simple ECD
* longways Ceilidgh or barn dances
* couple dances (e.g. waltz)
* Chicken dance (requested)
What do you think? or should I cancel the dance?
Susan [🎶] [☺]
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