The Kennedy Center is ridiculous for still requiring masks

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Braodway is also still requiring masks. Theater got really hard hit and it closes down a show quickly when performers get sick. Plus you are sitting there for hours in close quarters. I'm glad people wear masks. I just don't see how it's a big deal and I have massive asthma -- I can't wear them when walking outdoors or excercising, so I think I'm on the sensitive side, but sitting in an air conditioned theater is totally fine. My kids are also all fine with it. This just seems like such a non-issue and if it helps keep the theaters open, then great.

I keep reading this hear, but everything I can find online says Broadway went mask-optional back in July. Is this not the case?

Broadway is not requiring masks. I saw a show on Broadway in Aug. and masks were not required. Someone keeps posting this but they are wrong.

Broadway in NYC required masks until July 2022

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Braodway is also still requiring masks. Theater got really hard hit and it closes down a show quickly when performers get sick. Plus you are sitting there for hours in close quarters. I'm glad people wear masks. I just don't see how it's a big deal and I have massive asthma -- I can't wear them when walking outdoors or excercising, so I think I'm on the sensitive side, but sitting in an air conditioned theater is totally fine. My kids are also all fine with it. This just seems like such a non-issue and if it helps keep the theaters open, then great.

I keep reading this hear, but everything I can find online says Broadway went mask-optional back in July. Is this not the case?

Broadway is not requiring masks. I saw a show on Broadway in Aug. and masks were not required. Someone keeps posting this but they are wrong.

Broadway in NYC required masks until July 2022

Yes, which was [checks calendar] in the past. This is now. In the present we're asking why the Kennedy Center still requires them.

[Anonymous]

Saw Hamilton at Kennedy Center abt two weeks ago. Wore a mask.

Show was as amazing as ever. Mask changed nothing about it. And bc I am not a F**king toddler having a tantrum, I didn’t think twice about putting my mask on.

Would I have worn a mask just purely for myself? Probably not - I am vaxxed and fairly young and healthy. But am I happy to do it -STILL-for the same reason as ever…yes, I am.

Literally just tonight I was spending time w/ the adult son of a family friend. The son has Down’s syndrome and is in his 30s. His lungs are starting to fail to him. He had painted a portrait of my beloved dog and i was picking it up from him. I wear masks in public places so that people like him can continue living. If you really, really can’t understand that, you are a literal psychopath.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Braodway is also still requiring masks. Theater got really hard hit and it closes down a show quickly when performers get sick. Plus you are sitting there for hours in close quarters. I'm glad people wear masks. I just don't see how it's a big deal and I have massive asthma -- I can't wear them when walking outdoors or excercising, so I think I'm on the sensitive side, but sitting in an air conditioned theater is totally fine. My kids are also all fine with it. This just seems like such a non-issue and if it helps keep the theaters open, then great.

I keep reading this hear, but everything I can find online says Broadway went mask-optional back in July. Is this not the case?

Broadway is not requiring masks. I saw a show on Broadway in Aug. and masks were not required. Someone keeps posting this but they are wrong.

Broadway in NYC required masks until July 2022

Yes, which was [checks calendar] in the past. This is now. In the present we're asking why the Kennedy Center still requires them.

DP, not the one to whom you're responding, but: Last night I was online getting tickets for a production in November at another venue. Not the KC, not even in DC (in NY but not Broadway). And there was a crystal clear, boxed notice on the website saying: "We require audience members to wear masks so that actors can perform unmasked."

You can ask all day and all night "why the KC still requires them" and you can argue forever about Covid rates, mask efficacy etc. etc., But at a certain point you either adhere to the venue's rules and go enjoy the performance masked or you do not choose to buy tickets. These venues do not owe you an exception to the rule, and most venues and theater companies that are still requiring masks are saying it's to reduce actors' exposures. Even if you don't buy that reason or no longer "believe" Covid is a thing, it's a waste of your time to keep asking why and arguing about it. Find another entertainment that lets you go unmasked. Theaters can set their own rules for attendance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw Hamilton at Kennedy Center abt two weeks ago. Wore a mask.

Show was as amazing as ever. Mask changed nothing about it. And bc I am not a F**king toddler having a tantrum, I didn’t think twice about putting my mask on.

Would I have worn a mask just purely for myself? Probably not - I am vaxxed and fairly young and healthy. But am I happy to do it -STILL-for the same reason as ever…yes, I am.

Literally just tonight I was spending time w/ the adult son of a family friend. The son has Down’s syndrome and is in his 30s. His lungs are starting to fail to him. He had painted a portrait of my beloved dog and i was picking it up from him. I wear masks in public places so that people like him can continue living. If you really, really can’t understand that, you are a literal psychopath.

As someone with loved ones who have varying degrees of health issues, thank you. If only everyone had thought this way through 2020, we would have many more people still alive with us now. The lack of any feelling of a larger obligation, both to public health and to the lives of those who will be more harmed than the rest of us -- that lack was, and still is, appalling. But the answer here is too often, "Well, they should just stay home forever, then, and let the rest of us get on with OUR lives." Such profound selfishness, and it's actually worse than ever, with people deciding they're "over it." So my dear friend with damaged lungs should just never go to theater again, I guess....

[Anonymous]

good lord, grow up and wear a mask. How big of a baby can you be to complain about a minor inconvenience that may be saving someone's life? OP you are a big part of what is wrong with this world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Saw Hamilton at Kennedy Center abt two weeks ago. Wore a mask.

Show was as amazing as ever. Mask changed nothing about it. And bc I am not a F**king toddler having a tantrum, I didn’t think twice about putting my mask on.

Would I have worn a mask just purely for myself? Probably not - I am vaxxed and fairly young and healthy. But am I happy to do it -STILL-for the same reason as ever…yes, I am.

Literally just tonight I was spending time w/ the adult son of a family friend. The son has Down’s syndrome and is in his 30s. His lungs are starting to fail to him. He had painted a portrait of my beloved dog and i was picking it up from him. I wear masks in public places so that people like him can continue living. If you really, really can’t understand that, you are a literal psychopath.

As someone with loved ones who have varying degrees of health issues, thank you. If only everyone had thought this way through 2020, we would have many more people still alive with us now. The lack of any feelling of a larger obligation, both to public health and to the lives of those who will be more harmed than the rest of us -- that lack was, and still is, appalling. But the answer here is too often, "Well, they should just stay home forever, then, and let the rest of us get on with OUR lives." Such profound selfishness, and it's actually worse than ever, with people deciding they're "over it." So my dear friend with damaged lungs should just never go to theater again, I guess....

KN95 and KF94 are highly effective for one way masking.

I have a food allergy child. Very few people GAF about that. It’s life.

[Anonymous]

2,000 people in Westminster Abbey. Not a mask in sight. But KC is oh so special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2,000 people in Westminster Abbey. Not a mask in sight. But KC is oh so special.

They all must be LiTeRaL PsYcHoPaThS!!!!!!1111

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2,000 people in Westminster Abbey. Not a mask in sight. But KC is oh so special.

DC has its own Special Science, don't you know.

[Anonymous]

I was at the Kennedy center this weekend and it was packed. Everyone happily wearing a mask. It's not a big deal, Kennedy center won't suffer if you choose not to come because of the mask requirements

[Anonymous]

KC leadership, you know there’s a vaccine, right?

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Anonymous wrote:2,000 people in Westminster Abbey. Not a mask in sight. But KC is oh so special.

They all must be LiTeRaL PsYcHoPaThS!!!!!!1111

And yet I’m predicting no outbreak. Shocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Carnegie Hall was the same way this summer. Their gift shop wasn't even open. They were completely understaffed. It was really weird.

Since I'm in the music world, I think that the performers were very hard hit by Covid at the beginning of the pandemic, especially singers/choristers, and since their livelihood and their lives depend on not being out with Covid, and the performing calendar is scheduled sometimes years in advance and it's a huge mess when someone's out, their performing space really needs to be reasonably Covid-free.

Strathmore Music Center recently went mask-optional, but not for the people practicing there: my kid who rehearses in the MCYO orchestra is under a mandatory mask policy, just like last year (where they had a weekly health check-in as well).

We saw Kissin at Carnegie Hall in May and masks were required. It was a small thing to listen to his sublime work

OP likely patronizes the Kennedy Center for things like Hamilton, and is not aware of what good venues ask of their guests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at the Kennedy center this weekend and it was packed. Everyone happily wearing a mask. It's not a big deal, Kennedy center won't suffer if you choose not to come because of the mask requirements

How do you know they were all HAPPILY wearing a mask?