Is anybody having conversations about social distancing seating for next season? Maybe kill every other pair of seats. Just curious if anybody has gone through that mental exercise.
Is this a realistic possibility? I mean, has a health authority suggested that they might use it as a pandemic mitigation strategy?
Even if one did it, ignoring the amount of surface touching involved in getting to seats in the middle of a venue, doors, hand-rails and bathrooms, you'd have to account for distance not just along a row but in the rows in front and behind, and also measuring diagonally.
Yeah, I think we might have to contact the state and county authorities. Maybe we have to kill every other row too. At some point, I'm going to go measure seats.
Yeah, so I'm thinking that this obviously wouldn't work:
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But also this wouldn't work because of the diagonal distances:
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And even this might be an issue depending on seat size:
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Yeah, no way to know until I get in the hall and measure seats. BTW, LOVE this visual Gawain! :-) I mean the airlines are doing something like this with no middle seats etc. The other issue is the artist and the Orchestra. Jamming an orchestra into a pit sounds high risk.
Good point.
This is something I've been trying to think about as well. I was thinking of something similar with blacking out seats. The only problem is what you do with an odd numbered family. You wouldn't be able to get the third seat because it would leave a single seat. And if you allowed single seats to be purchased, someone not with the family could purchase the seat, defeating the whole thing. My other thought was GA might be doable, but that could get messy too. Definitely going to have some things to think about going forward.