[Choir] sing along

[Frances Krushenick]

I would love to sing in a group again, but the recommendation for people my
age is to stay home. Sing loudly and maybe I can hear you, Bronwyn lives
just down the road from me!!!!!.
Fran

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:03 PM ROBERT RIGGEN via Choir <
choir at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:

> 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> 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:
>
> [image: 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> 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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