| re: Have you returned to theater-going as normal? | |
| Posted by: sf 10:51 am EST 03/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Have you returned to theater-going as normal? - KingSpeed 10:06 pm EST 03/10/22 | |
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| That's not quite what I said. We're two years into a global pandemic. The worldwide death toll has now edged past six million. In this country alone, the death toll is about six times the population of the town where I live. We've known for two years that we're dealing with an easily-transmissible virus that attacks the respiratory system. For almost as long, we've known about aerosols and the possibility of asymptomatic transmission. We've also known for more or less two years - from the beginning - that there are a few simple, cheap, painless precautions more or less all of us can take to protect the people around us, beginning with using face coverings indoors and being careful about personal space. And we all have access to the same information. At this point, there is nobody who *doesn't know* how things like masks work, and why they are important. There are only people who choose to ignore the science, potentially putting everybody around them at risk. We all love theatre, we've all missed it, we all want it back, and we all want it back safely. I would expect to see less of this here, on a board for enthusiasts, but in my family circle I know a fair number of people who are reluctant to go back to live performances, at least indoors, because masks here are not mandatory and startlingly few people seem to respect the people around them enough to use them. I used the words 'idiot' and 'childish'. What word would you use to describe someone who knows how to take precautions to keep the people around them safe during a pandemic, but refuses to do it? It seems to me that 'idiot' is relatively mild. |
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