{"id":9220,"date":"2022-04-27T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2022-04-28T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T16:36:51","slug":"post-pandemic-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/04\/post-pandemic-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-pandemic singing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Anthony Fauci has declared<\/a> that we are now “out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase” of COVID. This doesn’t mean that COVID is gone. It just means that “we\u2019ve now decelerated and transitioned into more of a controlled phase,” according to Fauci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This tallies with my own observations. COVID is still a threat, but not as dire a threat as it was a few months ago. So over the weekend, I decided to go to a group singing event that would require proof of vaccination for entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were perhaps forty people at this Sacred Harp singing. I found it a little bit scary to be with so many people. (Though I was far more scared walking through airports when we flew to visit Carol’s father back in March — there were many more people in the airports, and anyone who was eating or drinking had their masks off.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I did find it to be a little bit scary, I also found it to be exhilarating. I’ve been too isolated during the pandemic. And I’ve done almost no in-person singing — no singing in choirs, no folk music jam sessions, no singing with a quartet, very little Sacred Harp singing. I’m not a particularly good singer, but before the pandemic, singing was my primary social outlet. Saturday’s singing event was definitely good for my mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this phase of the pandemic — this “more controlled phase,” to use Fauci’s words — we’re going to be balancing the threats from COVID against the threat that isolation poses to our mental health. It’s going to be a difficult balance to strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll put a photo of the singing below the fold. But if you get triggered by seeing a bunch of people singing indoors at this point in the pandemic, don’t click through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The 2022 Golden Gate All-Day Sacred Harp Singing (Denson book), Susan Fetcho leading<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Anthony Fauci has declared that we are now “out of the full-blown explosive pandemic phase” of COVID. This doesn’t mean that COVID is gone. It just means that “we\u2019ve now decelerated and transitioned into more of a controlled phase,” according to Fauci. This tallies with my own observations. COVID is still a threat, but … Continue reading “Post-pandemic singing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[739,72],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","tag-covid-19","tag-sacred-harp-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}