The Kennedy Center is ridiculous for still requiring masks

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COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

The surgical masks they are giving out do absolutely nothing to help that. How many times do we have to explain this to you? It isn’t doing any good!

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

The surgical masks they are giving out do absolutely nothing to help that. How many times do we have to explain this to you? It isn’t doing any good!

I know Fox News is telling you that, but try again.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

The surgical masks they are giving out do absolutely nothing to help that. How many times do we have to explain this to you? It isn’t doing any good!

I know Fox News is telling you that, but try again.

Don’t watch Fox News (or any TV news) and have never been a Republican. Also tripled vaccinated. Sorry to burst your twisted world view.

[Anonymous]

Broadway does not require masks. We went this summer and did not have to mask. We went to see Hamilton last week and I would have preferred to not wear a mask. It is kind of dumb to require masks when you allow people to eat and drink in the theater. Unless you can honestly tell me that the performers are locking themselves down when not preforming and not going to restaurants or friends houses etc. I just don't buy into it.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

The surgical masks they are giving out do absolutely nothing to help that. How many times do we have to explain this to you? It isn’t doing any good!

I know Fox News is telling you that, but try again.

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DP: You are absolutely clueless.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m seeing Hamilton this week and did not realize until I received my ‘reminder’ email that this is still a requirement. They have to be one of the only places (with the exception of hospitals/doctor’s offices) to require this!

Will really dampen the experience.

There was a very similar thread here very recently. I actually thought this was the same thread.

The KC is far from being "one of the only places" to do this. Every theater we've been to this spring and summer still requires masks. I said on that other thread: At one play we attended not long ago, the stage manager came out (masked) and thanked the audience and said of us and the crew, "WE mask so the actors don't have to."

OP, one case of covid, even an asymptomatic positive test, can bring a whole production to a halt. We saw a play in DC recently (not at the KC) where one cast member was out for a positive test the night we saw it; that play missed a few shows the next week, with several cast members positive; and they came back briefly it seems before all the final shows were cancelled. That means cast and crew out of work, lost revenues for the theater potentially. Some productions are trying to have actors limit outisde contact as much as possible, but actors have families just like the rest of us, so....And actors are working hard in front of audiences who are, sure, more than six feet away--but who are in the hundreds, all sharing the same air space. I'd rather see actors working without masks on their faces, wouldn't you? That's why theaters want audiences to mask.

And please don't think that understudies are a magical solution. Many productions do not have them at all and where there are understudies, those actors often are understudying more than one role while playing roles themselves. So there's no perfect solution of "X is out with a positive test, send in X's understudy" becasue that understudy may already be on stage replacing actor Y, who was already out sick....

So please just mask up with good grace. You should be so into the show, you won't even notice.

It isn't about "geriatric" patrons as some other PPs have said. It's about the fact that theater companies -- especially traveling productions like "Hamilton" with many cities, tons of potential exposures -- know that if even one actor gets Covid, it can have a terrible domino effect.

This is exactly right. It's a business/revenue protection measure.

But again, a loose cotton mask is protecting no one.

Let it go. Folks at the Kennedy Center are either wearing the KN95s or using the surgical masks provided for people who show up without them. Believe it or not, most people are properly masked. We just went to Hamilton and I was surprised at how compliant people are.

Most people aren't jerks. If they are asked to wear a mask, they might not love it, but they wear one. Very few people are wearing loose cotton masks at the theater at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

x1000 Well said, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

You act so high and mighty and yet apparently have no clue that masks have been optional for Broadway shows since July, with a select few exceptions.

[Anonymous]

We should take Covid seriously.

Let's close the Kennedy Center for 6 months, and see what happens in the spring.

[Anonymous]

Very dumb but makes sense given people in DC a probably love it. Just look at the PPs saying people should still mask in a theatre.

Really they need to change the seating. The seats are too small and close together. Address that.

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Anonymous wrote:The sent out a survey long ago and discovered too many people would not come back unless there were masks required and that patrons did not trust other patrons to self monitor for contagiousness.

Trouble is, if they sent out the same survey today, they would get different answers, but they are operating on the old data.

In your opinion. Many of us have avoided covid by masking appropriately. I work in healthcare and wear a mask everyday all day. No covid. Vaccine and masks work. Also consider the age of the Kennedy Center. I cannot imagine their hvac is what is needed for large crowds.

Oh, sure. Every member of the Kennedy Center audience is going to be wearing a properly fit tested N95 mask.

In fact, it is likely likely that *zero* members of the audience will be wearing a mask that is actually effective. It is literally *theater.*

It is also highly likely that you have had covid and were asymptomatic. I do believe that vaccines work -- which is why the mask mandate is ridiculous.

It's this kind of absence of common sense that has completely destroyed the public's faith in the public health establishment.

Anything is helpful. There is still some protection even without a fit test. You are the one lack common sense.

Real life data shows zero protection from anything other than properly fitted N95 masks. Remember those pictures of nurses with bruised faces from wearing masks all day? That’s what wearing a properly fitted mask looks like. No one at the Kennedy Center, other than a health care professional that came directly from work and brought their mask with them, is wearing a mask properly (and even a lot of those aren’t properly fitted). That blue surgical mask may make you feel better, but it does nothing to protect you from Covid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

You act so high and mighty and yet apparently have no clue that masks have been optional for Broadway shows since July, with a select few exceptions.

DC, being the center of Global Science, knows better

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:COVID is endemic. Get used to it.

There are certain circumstances in which a minor inconvenience is worth the benefit. Shutting down an entire Broadway is what happens when a cast member is positive. Cancelling shows not only impacts the actors you see on stage, but everyone involved in its production. No one gets paid. The ripple effect of money loss impacts people already struggling to pay rent/utilities/food. I really wonder about the morals and basic human decency of the people who complain about wearing a mask in this circumstance. Think about the world bigger than yourself.

You act so high and mighty and yet apparently have no clue that masks have been optional for Broadway shows since July, with a select few exceptions.

I'm talking about Broadway plays at the Kennedy Center or National Theatre where masks ARE required. There's nothing high and mighty about following rules and treating others with respect.