It looks like the new CDC guidelines, essentially ALL fully vaccinated personnel don’t need masks at all, should make moot what you are having to face at this time. As long as the band is fully vaxxed, the risk to both you AND the audience from you is negligible,…

Time to renegotiate, my friends….

CDC guidelines, with guidelines being the keyword. If it's not a direct safety violation, mandated by law, business's are allowed to make rules "No shirt, no service" "No mask, no singing", etc. .....

Well, hopefully, businesses are looking to their bottom line, and a return to normalcy ASAP. I don’t see how they would actually profit from putting off a large percentage of their business base by insisting full masking now the CDC has opened the floodgates.

Doesn’t hurt to have a conversation with the entertainment director…

Well, we just had to be patient.... last weekend they finally lifted the mask requirements. It's a relief to perform without the mask, but at the same time I feel bit "naked" without it on after a year. I forgot how some of my band mates looked, and we joked "you look better with a mask"

Yep. Figured that was coming.

As to the risk to unvaccinated attendees, who cares? Thinning the herd of the dumb isn’t the worst thing for our country!

Diki, I sympathize with your frustrations but I'm sure you didn't REALLY mean that. There are many reasons why some people have not been vaccinated (although I can't think of too many legitimate ones); still, I don't want to reach "herd immunity" by having them all die off. Again, I know that you don't wish that either.

chas

PS: Look at the 'shots' we HAVE to take as kids to enter the public school system. I don't understand why this wouldn't fall under the same general policy guidelines.

Naturally, those with LEGITIMATE reasons to not vaccinate (that is, medical reasons, not political or philosophical ones) still need to mask up, but quite honestly, just like any other self inflicted health problem like lung cancer from smoking, cirrhosis from chronic alcoholism or diabetes from morbid obesity, it’s hard to feel much sympathy towards those who deliberately take a path with a high likelihood of it causing their death or major bodily damage.

The main difference between other self inflicted health problems and Covid is that, on the whole, the only person to suffer was the person with the self destructive behavior. Not so with Covid, where prior to widespread vaccination availability, those deliberately ignoring mask mandates and social distancing enabled the spread of the disease and caused the death of countless others…

So, you’ll forgive me but I can’t honestly come up with much sympathy or desire for the well-being of a type of person that deliberately chose a course of behavior that caused the deaths of many millions of people worldwide. The world would be a safer place with them no longer in the gene pool.

We are such an interconnected planet these days, and Covid is by no means the only worldwide disease event (MERS, AIDS, SARS and Ebola are recent events that show Covid isn’t a lone event) that this is a problem we are likely to face again in the pretty near future. The fewer people who will actively resist the sensible precautions that prevent minor outbreaks turning into global pandemics that survive this outbreak, the more will survive the next one.

That’s not a bad thing, in my book…