An association executive, writing on LinkedIn, points out that many of the businesspeople at a live event she attended recently refused to wear masks.
"Masks are politicized," she writes. "Plain and simple. Many, many adults did not wear them.
The exec sees others' insistence to go without masks ironic, given the purpose of the live event was to cheer on the reopening of live events.
"For all of the rallying cries of 'working together to get us back to work' in the meetings industry, there were a lot of people who apparently felt their right to not wear a mask trumped everyone else’s shared expectations for safety.”
As long as mask-wearing is political, live events are threatened.
Perhaps eventpeeps should plan two editions of every live event in the future: Coastal (Safe Edition) and Flyover (Superspreader Edition).
Or should they consider my other solution?
