[Choir] sing along

[ROBERT RIGGEN]

Lani - you're not that dense, so it must be that Dick's email was a little fuzzy relative to the safety of singing together in person. Personally, as an old buzzard with somewhat compromised respiratory status, I'm not ready to sing in a group yet. An amazing coincidence: while in college I wrote a paper entitled "The Risk of Being Severely Injured While Playing Various Instruments In A Mediocre College Orchestra" which sadly was never published. Such a waste.
Bob

> On June 13, 2020 at 8:04 PM Lani Seifert via Choir <choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:
> 
>     English please?
>     Please translate this as it relates to Bronwyn’s possible plan. 
>     Sorry to be so dense!
>     Lani
> 
>     On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 7:36 PM Richard Riley via Choir < choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org mailto:choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org > wrote:
> 
>         > >         Dear All,
> > 
> >         It's good to feel the pulse of your desire to sing together!
> >          
> >         Amazingly, "viral transmission via inhalation of small airborne respiratory droplets," cited in the May, 2020 paper  Statement of Work: Aerosol Generation from Playing Band Instruments, Singing and Performing and Risk of Infectious Disease Transmission https://www.nfhs.org/media/3812357/risk-of-transmission-instrument-playing-vsfinal.pdf  is still assessed by the so-called Wells-Riley model, named after my father, my Uncle Ed, and their teacher William Wells. 
> > 
> >         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."
> > 
> >         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. Please keep that Wells-Riley equation in mind when next you sing together!
> > 
> >         Dick
> > 
> > 
> >         P.S. Here's the equation, for your next moment of light party conversation:
> > 
> >         [Screen Shot 2020-06-13 at 6.52.38 PM.png]
> >         Dick
> >         P=1−exp(−pQτq)
> > 
> > 
> >         On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 8:21 PM Bronwyn Fryer via Choir < choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org mailto:choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org > wrote:
> > 
> >             > > >             Hi all
> > > 
> > >             I’ve been thinking about trying to do this. If you don’t mind wearing a mask when we sing closer than 10’ from one another we might attempt in, say a 10-person per time group. Those of you who have been to my house know that there is plenty of room to spread around. I can provide mics and amplifiers for a few people and guitar accompaniment; it might be fun to do rounds and a cappella too if we can hear one another.
> > > 
> > >             If interested, let me know and we can make arrangements.
> > > 
> > >             Love to all.
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