Virus sharing via singing
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https://slippedisc.com/2020/05/concertgebouw-chorus-is-devastated-after-pre-covid-bach-passion/
On March 8, five days before lockdown, the Amsterdam Gemengd Koor (mixed choir) gave a performance of Bach’s St John Passion in the great hall of the Concertgebouw. That concert will be remembered for many tragic reasons.
It was announced on Dutch news last night that four people associated with the chorus – one singer and three partners of chorus members – died of Coronavirus after the concert, and 102 more fell sick, some seriously.
The chorus has 130 singers in all.
The conductor Paul Valk was among those who were hospitalised.
The Gemengd Koor, founded in 1928, is an amateur ensemble whose performances take place at the Concertgebouw.
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@brenda said in Virus sharing via singing:
Holy cow. Another sad example of how well it spreads in a group.
Not just any group. Group singing is particularly nasty.
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I’m in a choir and we all realize it will be a long time before we can ever get back together. Now we meet on zoom once a week and shoot the shit and do “open mike” stuff.
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I've got an issue where members of my church choir are wanting to get together to record something for the church. I've put the kabosh on it twice and they are starting to get upset with me.
Sorry, but in a choir our size (45) in the Washington, DC Metro Area, numbers tell me somebody in the group has it and is asymptomatic. It's not happening, and if it does happen, it will happen without me. I'll go to work every day and deal with customers because I can control the situation. Heck, want me to work an extra shift at a grocery store or deliver Amazon? I'm there. Go into a room where the very nature of what you're doing requires you to not wear a mask, 45 people are projecting their breath and everything from their diaghragm on up as far out into the room as possible, and then must breathe in deeply all of that air everybody else just exhaled out?
Uhhhmmmm, No way.
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly I'm starting to even get concerned about congregational singing with no masks.
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I would be interested to know exactly where each person was seated in the choir, to see if there was a pattern in exposure.
I would also like to know whether during a particularly bad flu season, if choir members passed the flu amongst each other similarly. Of course for colds/flu, nobody studies such things if they are not fatal.
Likely that there are scientists studying the choir, seating and etc.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Virus sharing via singing:
@Jolly I'm starting to even get concerned about congregational singing with no masks.
Brother, I'm with you.
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I might be moving to the back pew...
Pastor and I were discussing this today and he said that sometimes you need to trust in God to protect you.
“Pastor, there once was a dutiful deacon that trusted The Lord completely. When his town was flooding, he was on the roof of his house praying “Oh God, our Creator, please lift me from these waters.” A boat comes by and a man tells “Brother, jump in the boat!!” The deacon says “No! The Lord will save me!” He keeps praying and a second boat comes... Same thing happens... By this point the water is up to his neck. This time a helicopter arrives... Same thing. So the deacon frowns and is standing before God. “God, thank You for all you’ve done, but may I ask why you didn’t save me?” God replied “I sent you two boats and a helicopter. The rest was up to you.”
