Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-08-11 21:10
Let me apologize in advance. This post, while not rude, likely won't be nice...
....it's off topic too regarding the pedagogy of learning clarinet....
...but I think it spot on as it regards lesson about not confusing the OP's forest for the trees, and highly relevant.
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=491164&t=491151&v=f
I must admit to being confused by a requirement to be vaccinated in order to participate in ensembles. The vaccine should protect those who opted for it, and those who didn't opt for it should be free to accept whatever risks they want to. Even those who are vaccinated know that there is a very tiny chance of severe infection if they go interact, play, etc. It is a personal risk/reward decision.
Likewise, the audience. The audience should have no expectation that going to a public place and packing together for long periods of time will be any safer than it has ever been. They are responsible for their own decisions.
Fuzzy
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This Fuzzy, IMHO, is a classic case of confusing the forest (public health) with the trees (individuals.)
IMHO your logic is off because you have turned getting the COVID vaccine into a risk/reward calculation that solely applies to the individual when science shows us that the individual's (the tree) choice on innoculation has a profound affect on society (the forest): so it's society's risk too.
IMHO your logic would better apply to someone, with no financial dependents, who, for example, at age 50 (where it become medically indicated,) was faced with the decision to get a colonoscopy.
The cancer they may have that goes undetected as a resulting of opting out of getting this pretty much painless procedure done isn't contagious. And even then this example has flaws. Those pre-cancerous polyps painlessly removed during a colonoscopy are exponentially less expense to the medical insurance pool we all use to remove than taking care of the patient through oncological care once those unremoved polyps become malignant, spreading cancer cells via the lymphatic system to the rest of the body, resulting in detection often only after cure often becomes impossible.
> The training I received from grade school through college was
> essentially, "Doing 'this' will result in 'that.'"
>
> The problem was - doing 'this' very rarely resulted in 'that.'
Then your in luck in this case. This (advocating that everyone get the COVID vaccine) and that (the reduction in transmission and mutation) is beyond reproach--barring the few for which the shot is medically contraindicated: which ironically enough includes those now begging for it, about to be put on a ventilator having contracted COVID.
> So, then I'd be given more and more steps/ways/options to force
> 'this' to result in 'that." Every once in a while, my
> instructor and I would blindly stumble across a perfect
> combination, and I'd finally get 'that' result; but I'd be
> tired, weary, and frustrated.
>
> I had realized (at least for me) that I needed to start with an
> understanding of 'that' and then figure out how to get there.
"That" is a) hospitals filled to capacity, unable to take sick non-Covid patients, b) the mutation of the virus into more communicable and deadly strains--as those are the Darwinian strains that survive, c) the cost to the economy, d) the delay of necessary but non-emergent surgeries, and among others e) death.
"This" is getting the shot and wearing a mask indoors; the latter at least for now. And while on the whole this shot will, right now, protect its takers from the unvaccinated infected as you point out, it may not be as effective in time, especially as the unvaccinated infected serve as walking petri dishes for the development of strains that no current shot might address.
The first lesson in clarinet play is that you have to be alive and reasonably healthy to play it.
Off soap box.
Post Edited (2021-08-11 21:30)
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