It came directly from me. Too many people packed inside a small building exhaling vigorously as they belt out songs is a recipe for disaster. We are asking folks to wear masks inside the buildings and it is very hard to sing with a rag over yer mug. There is no way people can or will maintain 10? spacing at a jam. It is too risky.
You may hold smaller jams outside during the fest. But in October it can get kinda cold up there......
Hopefully spring 2022 will be less restrictive.
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MisterMike
This is disappointing. What happened to "...everyone's an adult" as mentioned in this video @ 2m30sec?
https://youtu.be/EX4LSUlholIIt's unfortunate that those same adults are actually only permitted to make personal choices deemed permissible by someone else. Free to do as you choose, as long as it's permitted.
If someone is afraid to come to the jam, they're always free to stay out of the building. The Deerfield fair managed to bring around 100,000 people through the gates and buildings, tightly packed shoulder-to-shoulder over the four days of the Fair with low single-digit percentage mask wearing and absolutely zero effort to "social distance". No breaking news of Deerfield being the epicenter of a super-spreader event.
As a member of the Deerfield Fair Association and having first-hand knowledge of what occurred there, how can you possibly justify this?
Of all places, "Live Free or Die" has never been under a more fierce attack than it has been in the last 20 months.
I'll close with this:
The New Hampshire state motto "Live Free or Die" was taken from a letter written by General John Stark, too weak to travel, to his comrades gathering to commemorate The Battle of Bennington. The letter closed, "
Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils".
New Hampshire memorialized this man for his unwavering commitment to freedom and liberty. New Hampshire dedicated a bronze statue of this man in front of our capitol in 1890 and donated a marble statue which stands in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington DC in 1894. Our states Motto speaks his words all over our state still today.
Government is not the only entity that can restrict freedom and liberty. It's all of our duties to defend and protect it, no matter the cost. Our freedom is in jeopardy at every turn. It's time we all put our personal beliefs aside and collectively stand for liberty no matter how scary or how much we disagree; it needs all the help it can get. With freedom, we all win.
It may seem petty and some may feel it's an overreach to compare the Ham Jam to freedom and liberty but it's what's in the hearts and minds of the people making the decisions that cancel events like this that I hope to appeal to.
