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The Second Big Lie

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-05-12 18:17

Given that this is a forum on clarinet playing I won't cover what I think is the first more obvious and political one.

In case you're wondering what that first one is, let's just say that those who disagree with me refer to it wrongly as the big steal.

So let's talk about the second big lie iMHO....which Ursa brought up last week.

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It seems that if some of my summer symphonic bands materialize, that face masks with slits in them to insert a clarinet mouthpiece and bell covers will be required.

As much as I would love to get back to performing, these steps are, medically speaking, offensive to me--not mind you because they limit my freedoms. I'd be glad to do them and more if epidemiological findings showed them to limit transmission of disease: in this case Covid.

But any clarinet player worth their weight in salt knows these steps to be nonsense window dressing. Aside from other instrumentalists within the group not subject to similar restrictions, we all know that air comes out of the next open hole in the instrument, which is only the bell for E3--anymore than is some bell cover necessarily going to be made of N95 material to trap the Covid virus.

A part of me wishes to protest this lie by not playing. The truth to me seems to be to limit playing to those who are fully inoculated.

Thoughts?

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