My neighborhood is coping two ways: group (6ft apart) sing at my corner (upbeat stuff) AND

[CTyankee]

for the kindergartners whose school is closed there is a BEAR HUNT.

For the bear hunt, folks are putting out teddy bears of all types in little "scenes" with whatever you have to work with toywise. One neighbor has a teddy bear Elvis from Vegas, complete with glitter!

I have no teddy bears to display so I posted a copy of a bear's beautiful head on my front door. The kids come by in a little group and see all the "scenes" and then these postings are put online on our neighborhood web page.

[underpants]

1. That's awesome.

[CTyankee]

2. I wish I knew how to post pics. Some of the little scenes are very creative!

[CottonBear]

3. Group singing can be very dangerous, and possibly fatal:

Choir practice turns fatal. Airborne coronavirus strongly suspected

By RICHARD READ
SEATTLE BUREAU CHIEF
MARCH 29, 2020
7:34 PM


...snip...

“It seemed like a normal rehearsal, except that choirs are huggy places,” Burdick recalled. “We were making music and trying to keep a certain distance between each other.”

...snip...

After 2½ hours, the singers parted ways at 9 p.m.

Nearly three weeks later, 45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead.

The outbreak has stunned county health officials, who have concluded that the virus was almost certainly transmitted through the air from one or more people without symptoms.


More...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/coronavirus-choir-outbreak%3f_amp=true

[llmart]

4. Doesn't sound like they practiced social distancing.

"choirs are huggy places". This particular instance the singers did not keep very far apart.

[CottonBear]

6. They stayed 6' apart and did not touch each other.

Scientists think the forceful singing caused the virus particles to be pushed out far from the mouths of the singers.

But Skagit County hadn’t reported any cases, schools and businesses remained open, and prohibitions on large gatherings had yet to be announced.

On March 6, Adam Burdick, the choir’s conductor, informed the 121 members in an email that amid the “stress and strain of concerns about the virus,” practice would proceed as scheduled at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church.

...snip...

Sixty singers showed up. A greeter offered hand sanitizer at the door, and members refrained from the usual hugs and handshakes.

“It seemed like a normal rehearsal, except that choirs are huggy places,” Burdick recalled. “We were making music and trying to keep a certain distance between each other.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-29/coronavirus-choir-outbreak%3f_amp=true

[llmart]

8. I did not see in the article where they stood six feet apart.

I did see this:


Cushioned metal chairs extended in six rows of 20, with about a foot between chairs and one aisle down the center. There were twice as many seats as people.

Comstock, a soprano, and Owen, a tenor, took their usual seats beside each other in the third row. The rows toward the front and center filled up around them.

[CTyankee]

5. OK, forgot to mention that in addition to social distancing, group sing takes place in open air.

I tried to turn off my ad block but I still can't get the website and get the rest of the story. Was this story about an open air group sing?

[CottonBear]

7. No, it was a choir social distancing indoors.

The point is that singing and shouting can force virus particles far away from one’s mouth.

[llmart]

9. No, they were not social distancing.

Two couples rode together to practice in the same car.

[CTyankee]

11. Yes, this is why I can't have my teeth cleaned. Plumes from the dentist's instrument contain

droplets that could infect me, if the virus were somehow in the air at the time.

[CottonBear]

12. The point: they tried to remain apart more than usual & not touch,

yet the investigation seems to show the forceful singing created airborne viruses.

[llmart]

10. You did say that it was at the corner.

I just assumed it was outdoors as most people would with that statement.

[CTyankee]

13. yep.

[LisaL]

14. I wouldn't be singing in groups right now. Even if they are standing 6ft apart.

[CTyankee]

15. I'm not sure I would either (they wouldn't want me anyway as I cannot sing).

[JCMach1]

16. Guys, this virus is probably airborne

6ft without a mask is not going to work


Infections are particularly happening in groups where any kind of heavy respiration (like singing) takes place.

Social distancing means you should avoid groups. What you guys are doing is really not good.

[CTyankee]

17. I tell them to knock it off.

[CTyankee]

18. It has been changed already. Folks are standing and singing in front of their houses, facing an

empty sidewalk at 8 pm. We have a very lightly traversed street. Only on shabat is their much if any foot traffic and they won't sing on shabat as, I presume, some are members of the Orthodox community on our street.