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Micolithe
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Philadelphia, PA
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Agender Enby, Trans, Gay, AND the bearer of the gamer's curse. Not a man, not a woman, but instead I am puppy.
I got a fat ass and big ears.

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Yes I did the cooking mama Let's Play way back when. I post alot about Tech (mostly how it sucks) and Cooking and Music and Television Shows and the occasional Let's Play video
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We can all be free ♫

Maybe not in words ♫

Maybe not with a look ♫

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❤️PHILADELPHIA COHOST WAKE❤️

When: Sunday, September 29th, 3:00 p.m.

Where: Louis I. Kahn Park
1101 Pine St., Philadelphia, PA, 19147
(The park next to Giovanni's Room Gay Book Store)

Backup location: If there's too many of us for Kahn Park we will walk to Washington Square Park and meet there. So if you get to Kahn Park late and don't see us, go to Washington Square Park.

Who: You! Any Cohost users who see this post and are capable of getting to Kahn Park on 9/29/24 at 3:00pm are hereby summoned to pour one out for Eggbug!

COVID Policy: If 10+ people show up to this, then high quality masks are required. Free masks will be available regardless. I may lower the threshold closer to the event if COVID levels get substantially higher between now and then.

How do I get there? Kahn Park is easily accessible via SEPTA, PATCO, Bike, etc. so it should be doable for everyone in the Delaware Valley and even Baltimore and NYC if you wanna make the shlep.

What will we do?: Reminiscing. Pouring one out for EggBug. Perhaps making new connections and friendships that will persist offline after the servers shut down. I might say a blessing??? We will wing it. I highly recommend checking out Giovanni's Room before or after and there's good places to get food nearby as well.

Tell everyone you know in and around Philadelphia who uses Cohost!!

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This is less than a week away. While COVID-19 levels locally continue to decline and are well below the national average, it's become increasingly clear that people are traveling from quite far away so I have no plan to change the masking threshold.

Please anticipate that we will be masking. Bring a high quality mask. I'll have free ones available in the event someone forgets or can't afford one. There's no way that there's going to be fewer than 10 people at any time.

The "official" meetup is only at whichever park we're at. If you break off into smaller groups to explore the city or get dinner or something then I'm not your mom and I'm not going to tell you what to do.

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The event is entirely outdoors which drastically reduces the likelihood of transmission to a dramatic degree. At <10 people, there's a very small chance that someone has COVID according to PMC19 for the Northeast region, which is the lowest in the country right now. With <10 people we can space out as well. If it goes up by then I'll lower the threshold but right now it's going down. One-way masking is super effective as well, especially if we're outdoors.

I do, however, have a feeling that there will definitely be >10 people present, and none of this will matter, and we will all be masked. I had only put the threshold cuz I was worried it would be me and 4 friends I know anyway and it would feel silly masking since we normally wouldn't even mask indoors amongst each other at that small a number.

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isn’t a small chance still a chance of somebody getting COVID?
and i don’t really understand how attendees are supposed to know prior to arriving whether masking will be required or not. won’t that just lead to confusion and less masking when people show up and therefore potentially more risk for everybody but especially the most vulnerable people in attendance?
one-way masking is sadly the norm for people who still care about not catching COVID, but that doesn’t mean that’s acceptable for an event whose organizers want to actually be inclusive of disabled/immunocompromised people.
i’m asking you in good faith to please reconsider the mask policy for this event.

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I am expecting everyone to bring a mask no matter what and if they don't I will give them a mask. I am a high risk individual myself and I put a lot of thought into this.

I have also been an essential worker and have a lot of trauma around trying to enforce masking. I mask indoors all day every day. I am always on the pulse of local rates and doing math.

The most extreme policy is not always the best or most effective policy at creating a safe environment. We are outdoors and I will be adjusting the threshold based on up to date regional transmission data from PMC19 the week of the event.

People are most likely to actually comply with a masking requirement when they feel it is data driven and justified by local rate of transmission. When I just tell everyone to mask no matter what, they don't. And then I, the high risk individual, have to go near the unmasked person and ask them to put a mask on, putting me at risk.

But when I create a data-driven threshold based on the circumstances of a gathering, people feel it is justified and actually comply on their own with the policy. Again, at an outdoor gather of very few people, it is extremely unlikely COVID will be able to transmit especially if everyone is up to date on their vaccines. I honestly expect that even if there is a tiny amount of people that most people will mask anyway just based on the crowd that is coming. Like I said, free masks will be made available and encouraged regardless, but I'm not going to be trying to enforce it if there's just five people standing around in a park.

If I recall correctly, being outdoors has a six figure factor of reduction of transmission or something like that, except when a crowd is dense like a concert. I don't think this is going to be concert dense and I expect that we will easily hit the masking threshold. People should expect that they will be needing to mask.

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