Re: Readercon code of conduct

In article <v2kkrb$15g4e$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath  <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:

The latest in my series of blog posts on convention codes of conduct
covers Readercon. Points discussed include the conflation of good ideas
with requirements, the usual prohibition on saying anything derogatory
about anybody, and mask/vaccination policy.
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https://garymcgath.com/wp/readercon-code-of-conduct/

As it happens, I was for a while the only person at work who still
masked*, work in this case being live theatre in facilities with up
to 700 people. Coincidentally, I am also the only person on staff
who has not caught covid. For a while there, a significant fraction
of my shifts were me subbing for sick people. 

I am now one of two people who masks, the other one being someone who
came down with covid after a show with a lot of coughing people in the
audience.

Pre-Covid we had a memorable lesson in how "the show must go on" impacts
contageous disease. A dancer caught Norwalk, and rather than disappoint
her studio, powered through and attended her performance. In the process,
she gave it to almost everyone who was in the building. We had to have
the dressing room decontaminated.

I escaped by a matter of seconds. My shift had just ended, I had literally
just dropped the House Manager keys into the hand of my replacement,
when the dancer turned into a puke fountain by the entrance.** I left
my replacement to deal with it and left by a different door. I picked
up so much extra work due to that. 


* I also don't do the "Oh, social convenience such as group eating
trumps precautions," thing.

** Thing do not always work out in my favour. Last year I had to deal
with a 10 metre trail of vomit left by an ailing patron. Normally we'd
leave major spills to plant ops but this was in the theatre itself and
had to be handled immediately.
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