10 Jan
2023
10 Jan
'23
9:59 p.m.
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(a)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
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