Question for anyone with the "you will alienate someone" or "everyone has a different level of risk" mindset:

In other areas of life, do you consider someone's personal preference (like not wearing a mask) the same as someone's health needs (like having a health condition, or a family member who does)?

Like, how is this "both sides have a preference" narrative any different from able-bodied people being like "Oh, well, I just don't like handicapped ramps, I prefer steps"?

I'm not asking to be mean or rude. I genuinely would love an explanation.

I think there actually _is_ a way to please most people, and not just disregard people with medical conditions (or family with them).

That is - making sure no area's dances are all mask-optional.

There's a big difference between an area having _some_ mask-optional dances, sure, but if they're _all_ mask-optional.

Thanks,

Julian Blechner

On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 5:56 PM John and/or Jan Bloom via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

As Alan said, whatever you do you will alienate someone.

What I did with the Brunswick ECD was to ask all of the dancers
- would you dance if masks were required
- would you dance if masks were optional
and so on.

Then I picked the rules that maximized the number of dancers.

I realize that this is harder for Contra, where you have a lot of dancers that you can't ask, including potential future dancers. But in my case it seemed like the right way to do it.

John Bloom
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