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Hi Bronwyn - thanks for creating these opportunities, but I am going to decline for. now.
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On June 14, 2020 at 6:02 PM Bronwyn Fryer via Choir <choir@unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:
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<br> Okay folks, here’s another idea.
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I sang/played at a very safe distance on my deck with Paula Gills today (what a pleasure!)
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I think we could do groups of 4 with no problem.
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How would it be if we set up something like that?
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God, how I hate reality sometimes...
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Folks, given the pushback I think we had better not do this.
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most of us are old and should avoid anything that feels too risky.
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My instinct to share the references to my dad is straight-ahead pride, but I hope that people read and independently assess the information in
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<em class="" style="color: #500050;"><a class="" target="_blank" href="https://www.nfhs.org/media/3812357/risk-of-transmission-instrument-playing-vsfinal.pdf" rel="noopener">Statement of Work: Aerosol Generation from Playing Band Instruments, Singing and Performing and Risk of Infectious Disease Transmission</a>.</em>
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For sure, this is not new news to you, but I am still struck by the intense desire of many to put COVID-19 reality behind them. We
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<span class="">Susan and I were lucky to be able to do that with you and Dan.</span>
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if we’re outdoors and wearing masks the risk is pretty low. but anyone who feels uncomfortable should definitely stay away. We can put some of it up on Youtube.
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Dear All,
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It's good to feel the pulse of your desire to sing together!
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</div>Amazingly, "viral transmission via inhalation of small airborne respiratory droplets," cited in the May, 2020 paper
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This from another paper: "In the preface to his 1955 masterwork, “Airborne Contagion and Air Hygiene: An Ecological Study of Droplet Infections” published by Harvard University Press,... Wells attributes the crucial distinction between droplet nuclei (airborne inhalable dried residua of larger respiratory droplets) and germ-laden dust (non-inhalable larger respiratory droplets) to Richard L. Riley, a medical student working with him at Harvard at the time."
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I am very proud of my dad and uncle, and the fact that the Wells-Riley model is still one of the ways to assess risk for airborne infection is pretty amazing.
<u class="">Please keep that Wells-Riley equation in mind when next you sing together</u>!
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P.S. Here's the equation, for your next moment of light party conversation:
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