While one off events are great, we need to find ways to engage with people more regularly. Affinity groups are a great way to do that, and our version will be COVID cautious. Everyone in our community has a different approach to risk exposure, but we also benefit from in person interaction.
These would be masked IN PERSON gatherings at someone’s home or some third location, and you can round robin between homes, for those that would work for. If the group chooses, you can elect to test instead and then unmask. Or perhaps in summer and fall you can meet outside unmasked if everyone in the group agrees. The goal here is to just kick off these groups and have them be self sustaining.
These meetups may be more risk than you’re interested in taking, and that’s ok, but many of us want more safe, in person interaction.