Karle Heine has one word for bands playing music without singing: “Boring.”
The owner of New World Tavern in Plymouth thinks the state regulation preventing performers from crooning while playing their instruments is not helping his business during the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The customers don’t care for it,” he says. “They want to experience the whole act. The musicians are doing the best they can, but it doesn’t have the same pizzazz. It’s hurting us not letting them sing. People want to see the whole show.”
Others in the food trade – as well as performers – are in agreement. While they are on board with protecting people from infection during this age of coronavirus, most believe an outright ban on singing is unnecessary since workarounds are possible.
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PLYMOUTH – The numbers are dropping, but there is still concern over the local spread of COVID-19, including the fact that the more contagious United Kingdom variant is now on the doorstep of Plymouth.
On Sunday, state officials announced that two cases of the B.1.1.7 variant have been detected in Plymouth County. The communities where these individuals live are not being released, though.
“We don’t provide town-level data, just county level, for medical privacy reasons,” said Omar Cabrera of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in an email.
According to Karen Keane, Plymouth’s Public Health director, she has no way of telling if any of the COVID-19 cases recorded in this town are of the UK variant.