Good to hear the event went smoothly, and thanks for sharing your experience!
I’m not sure yet how we should decide when to stop requiring [masks], and am open to suggestions!
How about organizing an event without masks (and/or other COVID measures)? Allow people to choose whether to go the maskless/measureless event or the masked/‘protected’ event (or both!). Compare attendance, and change the frequency of each category of events depending on that. Perhaps both events are roughly evenly popular, perhaps maskless is much more popular, perhaps ‘protected’ is much more popular. If you do this experiment, let me know the results!
Good to hear the event went smoothly, and thanks for sharing your experience!
How about organizing an event without masks (and/or other COVID measures)? Allow people to choose whether to go the maskless/measureless event or the masked/‘protected’ event (or both!). Compare attendance, and change the frequency of each category of events depending on that. Perhaps both events are roughly evenly popular, perhaps maskless is much more popular, perhaps ‘protected’ is much more popular. If you do this experiment, let me know the results!
I wouldn’t be excited about us organizing anything that would split the community or cause conflict, and I think that approach would, unfortunately.