COVID Cancellations — Page 24

Nobody assymptomatic is gonna willfully quarantine for 10 days unless they test again..Stop fooling yourself.

That poster has only posted false information about Covid19 and vaccines on this board. It's the only thing they have ever talked about. Ever. Fighting a person who is only here to supply lies, false information and anti vaccine rhetoric is pointless and a waste of everyone's time.

Stay safe everyone (except Broadwaybuff who is neither buff nor interested in Broadway in any way.)

Broadwaybuff17 said: "Nobody assymptomatic is gonna willfully quarantine for 10 days unless they test again..Stop fooling yourself."

A PCR test is very sensitive and very accurate and it's going to have the exact same result the second time as it did the first time. And legally they're required to quarantine regardless...they're not even allowed to leave quarantine to go back to the testing site. I had covid last month (asymptomatic, was getting tested for travel) and the New York hospital testing site explicitly told me NOT to come back and test again and just to isolate for ten days and then show proof of the positive test for travel purposes, because I'd likely test positive again even after being no longer contagious. And they reminded me of substantial fines for not quarantining and that I might get a call or visit from a compliance officer to make sure I was quarantining, so...I'm going to guess most people are quarantining and not retesting, based on all of that. A second positive testing result isn't going to help them and might just start the whole quarantine process all over again, and a PCR test is very unlikely to give a false positive one day and then a negative the next day.

I still have no problem going to a Broadway venue.

That said, as excited as I was to see Darren Criss at the Beacon Theatre on Monday, I'm even more sad to have to cancel. With my pre-existing conditions, the rising COVID numbers, and MSG venues, like the Beacon Theatre, are still not requiring masks like the Broadway theatres, I just can't do it. Thankfully he thought ahead and set up a Livestream, so I won't miss it, but I was really looking forward to it.

everythingtaboo said: "I still have no problem going to a Broadway venue.

That said, as excited as I was to see Darren Criss at the Beacon Theatre on Monday, I'm even more sad to have to cancel. With my pre-existing conditions, the rising COVID numbers, and MSG venues, like the Beacon Theatre, are still not requiring masks like the Broadway theatres, I just can't do it. Thankfully he thought ahead and set up a Livestream, so I won't miss it, but I was really looking forward to it."

Pre RA here as well as another inflammatory disease, also feel very safe going in theatres. Was just in a local professional theatre a few nights ago and they even have an indirect contact tracing system set up which is really neat. Darren Criss cancelled his Hershey stop unexpectedly (assuming lack of ticket sales?) but I didn’t realize there was a Livestream. If I’m able to, I’ll try to watch the Livestream so thank you for mentioning that!

This is all giving me March 2020 tease and ion like that.

Tag said: "Anyone else hearing that the Doubtfire opening party was the superspreader?"

Yes.

Yikes!

Auggie27 said: "The Public's new policy -- 3 shots and a negative test within 24 hours of curtain -- will never fly in 1500+ Broadway houses. Imagine trying to verify all of that with a far more demographically and geographically diverse (i.e. tourist) audience. It's a nightmare. And Delta or Omicron: the whole point of masking is to skip the testing, because masks block on-site transmission. It's hard to fathom a world where tests are so available (they're not everywhere), the results easily transportable, that we can require them for access. It's a bridge too far to fill 1000+ seats 8 times a week, and will block the 24-48 hour before casual theatergoer decision -- the person buys a TDF ticket and wants to show up the next day (me, racing off to matinees). The testing requirement makes theatergoing tantamount to flying overseas."

Agreed. New York presently has reasonably good capacity for testing everyone who wants a test, but if 1500+ people x 30 Broadway shows needed tests every single day, that would overwhelm testing capacity very quickly and be an incredibly poor use of resources (and would likely skew positivity rates for the entire state to make them look much lower than they really are).

Tag said: "Anyone else hearing that the Doubtfire opening party was the superspreader?"

Correct.

I bought a last minute ticket to see Wicked tonight and was VERY surprised to see not one understudy on

I seriously doubt that opening night party was THE super spreader. Christmas parties are happening, nightlife is back and SantaCon came back.