Covid Live Concert Testing with Humans
Today’s Artist of the Day: Silverchair
The Germans put on a concert in front of about 1500 people just to study covid transmission... I kid you not. Let's talk about it.
What's up, everybody? My name is Sweet Deat, and I am so glad that you have found my channel, if this is your first time. Before we get to this whole covid German live concert thing, let's talk about the artist of the day, shall we?
A band performed in Germany on August 22 for a group of about 15,100 concert goers. Does it sound a little crazy? Well, it should, but... This was done all in the name of research.
Martin Luther University is conducting the study using a variety of techniques and tricks and things to just try and figure out how diseases like Covid-19 get passed from person to person, but specifically in an indoor arena. This particular event was a 10-hour study, and all the participants were under 50 years old. Yes, there were masks and there were all sorts of protective measures that happened, but they wanted to measure social distancing in three different ways. and also use this reflective sort of hand sanitizer that would light up under a specific light if something was touched, so they can measure the spread of germs and stuff like that.
This is a very big one for people like me and all of my friends in the music industry that really would like to get back to work, playing for lots of people and making good money, I think it's pretty brave and also pretty awesome that people were willing to take part in this study, and I'm very anxious to view the results, which should be coming in October. As you know, music venues of that kind of size, say 1500 people were probably the first to close and they will likely be the last to open, making them the largest to be impacted through this whole pandemic, the more studies like this one that gets made, the more we learn about the virus and how it's going to affect our industry moving forward, so like I said, as October comes around and the results are released, I'll be sure to let you know.
As musicians we’re starting to see all sorts of little patio gigs come back, and those things are very good for right now, but you know, they don't really pay the bills, if you know what I mean. So hopefully, this study will give us some sort of light as to how we can proceed safely and reopen these venues and get back to work safely.