Hi Jon,
Your sarcasm to Mac reads to me as rude.
Mac is trying to speak up for his own health and others. There's no need to use hyperbolic sarcasm like thus.
The fact is that - as conversations on this list have relayed - dances with high quality masks mandated have had zero traceable transmissions. Zero. And dances without them have had plenty of outbreaks (including the one in England that happened recently, so I hear). And dances with mask mandates are, on average, more likely to proactively ask dancers to test and report test results and symptoms, while unmasked dances range from doing the same down to barely giving lip-service to "if you're sick, stay home".
Masking. Works.
In dance,
Julian Blechner
He/Him
Western Massachusetts
Mac,
I guess none of us then should really be contra dancing at all because dancing surely creates more transmission risk than not dancing. And for a recreational activity that, unlike earning a living, is not even a necessity.
- Jon Greene
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> On Apr 8, 2023, at 5:27 PM, Walker Sloan via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> Becoming infected by Covid today is a lower risk to the individual than at the start of the pandemic.
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> However, becoming infected by Covid is also an opportunity for the Covid virus to be transmitted to others, and to mutate.
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> R0 is the number of people that an infected individual is likely to infect.
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> R0 was 5.4 in Dec 2022.
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> XBB.1.5 is estimated to be 82% of all Covid cases today.
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> 5.4 and 82% are not numbers influenced by communities or individuals attitudes towards risk. Only by community and individual behavior.
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> People who assume increased risk for themselves are also assuming increased risk for 5.4 other people.
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> Masks, vaxes, and emails mitigate risks.
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> These data are from an article published by a reputable university hospital last month on Mar 17 2023. Scroll to the last page for R0.
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> https://www.ohsu.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/Oregon-Hospital-Forecast-Trends-March17-2023.pdf
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> Mac Sloan
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