If only Theo Maassen turns down the ventilation a bit
Theo Maassen will soon be performing two evenings in a full theater, which was not to be missed (see Google search). Now, theatres are generally equipped with excellent ventilation facilities, if only to keep the indoor climate pleasant. The esteemed audience should not be too cold or too hot and the last thing you want is for them to yawn.
The only thing that helps against this is indoor climate control with sufficient fresh air, also known as 'ventilation' in Dutch, although that name is not specific. It's like saying 'wetness' when you actually mean clean drinking water. (A term suggestion in a moment).
Hardly any infections are to be expected in well-equipped theatres – and there are, such as for example AFAS Show me.
The fact that there will be few infections at the Maassen shows will be attributed to the success and therefore the need for corona passports. Check the box: do you see that it works?
Small risk
If Theo gets his audience to laugh often and loudly, the virus is released – assuming there is a corona sufferer among them at all. But Maassen's audience does not sing and is not constantly speaking, as is the case in the hospitality industry. Only if Theo himself turns out to be a heavy shedder, something can still happen, but he will also have a recent negative test in his pocket, which means that the chance is small.
It would help the good cause if the ventilation was turned to a minimum level, say in accordance with the building code for residential houses or thereabouts. The vaccinated will then reuse more of each other's breath. Because the virus is not very common at the moment, nothing will most likely happen. If there happens to be a shedder among them, then it can only be demonstrated that a corona passport is useful under poor ventilation conditions. So not in a theater.
Theo, I hope your show doesn't become a shining example of the proponents of the corona pass.
Tisjeboy Jay does it a little differently – same result
Tisjeboy Jay is a special phenomenon. When I first saw him, I thought: "appealing energetic guy, makes nice videos, but what can he actually do?" A typical boomer thought, of course. He is super fun to watch, has a nice and solid (and positive!) story and can make videos! What more could you want.
He sold out Ahoy twice in the blink of an eye. Ahoy also works without testing for access, but then again with one and a half meters. See here. Tisjeboy doesn't mind antisocial distancing as much and I understand it – artists have to play.
But Ahoy is also well ventilated and can even handle audiences that do not have to keep a distance of one and a half meters. So nothing goes wrong there either – and then you'll see: soon it will be thanks to the one-and-a-half-meter rule that it just went well, but oops oops, it was playing with fire! And that against a virus that Tisjeboy soon had his thoughts about...
Tisjeboy, I hope your show doesn't become a shining example of the proponents of the one-and-a-half-meter society.
I can remember a TV broadcast in which Tisjeboy Jay (via a video link) makes it clear to the NOS guests several times that according to Minister Grapperhaus the virus is a killer, extreme, extremely dangerous and that anyone who poses any risk to someone else is an incredible 'aso'. He then asks them the question: "If Grapperhaus is really convinced of this, how can he stand so close to his elderly mother-in-law, arm around her?"
The entire NOS propaganda team, including hypertalker Ben van der Burg, is then at a loss for words. Does anyone still have that video?
WHO: Vaccine Not The Only Way Out
And lo and behold, the WHO is reading up. To my surprise, they say it honestly: The vaccines don't seem to be 'The Only Way Out' after all. Now we have to nuance the one-and-a-half-meter rule, show the seriousness of the virus in a barometer and throw clean breathing air into the fight. Sounds crazy? No, compare it to just as crazy as clean drinking water.
Anyway, that is at least reassuring. Again an indication that it was not a preconceived plan but indeed just enormous incompetence, fear, tunnel vision, agendas that cleverly respond to everything, conflicts of interest, mass formation. So they didn't even know about vaccinating with non-sterilizing vaccines against a rapidly mutating respiratory virus with animal reservoir, and that during a pandemic – but that is also something for the advanced.
Why doesn't "clean breathing air" sound as normal as "clean drinking water"?
On the one hand, I would like someone to say: dear people of the WHO and affiliates, that after a year of unnecessary misery due to your wrong advice, you will only come up with this, after half the world has been injected with something that actually still has to prove itself and of which you constantly discover unknown properties, Unfortunately, that is a certificate of inability. That is mismanagement – and then we remain accommodating. In that line are also measures such as one and a half meters and hand washing and face masks. The world has been terrorized with it and in the end it has brought little and even caused unprecedented global damage, including to public health. While nothing has been done about clean breathing air.
That's not how we had the WHO in mind when we founded you. Out now.
But then what? Without WHO? Then the market takes over. That sounds dramatic, but you can wonder if it would really make much difference. In any case, pharmaceutical companies have less authority over the population, less authority over the media, less direct connection with government, laws and law. At least I hope so, because of course it is about billions.
It's actually like the drug trade from the Netflix series: the stakes are just too big to manage properly, resulting in uncontrollable chaos. It will not be easy to come up with something better for that.
