Carsie Blanton Is Making Live Music Great Again

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Originally published at: Carsie Blanton Is Making Live Music Great Again | Boing Boing

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[sfsdfd]

Carsie Blanton is an incredibly fun musician. We saw her show live a few times in the before-times and always had a ball.

[sfsdfd]

If I’m going to be in a high-risk setting like this, I feel the only responsible mitigation is to stay masked.

I’m with you, both for personal safety and for mitigation. COVID Fatigue is a real problem.

[ChuckV]

@boingboing

nothing sucks the fun out of almost anything more than a face mask.

[Melizmatic]

@boingboing

I didn’t lose any loved ones to Covid, but live music was a Covid-era casualty that messed me up bad.

Um…

Sociopathic tendencies, much?

[KathyPartdeux]

@boingboing

nothing sucks the fun out of almost anything more than a face mask.

Clearly someone has never had a bout of explosive diarrhea. It can really ruin an evening.

[ClutchLinkey]

@boingboing

I didn’t lose any loved ones to Covid,

Ummmm, I guess I’m sorry you didn’t get to fully experience the Zeitgeist with several millions of other Americans who have, I guess? But you know what they say about anything that comes before a “but” in a sentence?

@boingboing

but live music was a Covid-era casualty that messed me up bad.

People have and still are suffering in innumerable and tragic ways. This seems a very unfortunate framing of your story. And completely detracts from your presumed goal of highlighting an artist.

[Melizmatic]

The phrasing on this post is so incredibly poorly chosen, I’d flag it if that were still an option for BB articles.

[anon67050589]

I just learned that our choral director has been fighting so hard to protect us for the last two years that she was nearly fired.

As she put it: I’ve lost one singer to covid, I’m not losing any more.

And so we sing while wearing masks, in less traditional formations, in spaces with a great deal of air and space to spread the audience out. The audiences have to prove they’ve been vaccinated or gotten a negative test in under 24 hours.

Singing is one of the most dangerous things one can do during this pandemic. Audience members who are so selfish that they’re willing to harm and even kill the people around them at a concert are a perfect example of WHY we’ve lost over a million people in this country in such a short time. No sense of civic responsibility or basic decency.

[anon59592690]

It really sucks you couldn’t go out and do whatever you wanted while a few million people around the world died from a preventable infection.