JAH Med

[Drunk Monk]

Just finished a JAH med Zoom session about 2021. With CA lifting restrictions, some festivals are working at greenlighting their events and JM is trying to figure out how that might go. My division - psych - is the most dramatically affected. Our protocols require close contact with patients and given the Covid hazard, that's just not where we want to be. However, JM, like RM, has built their reputation on solving dramatic IPR cases on site and given the massive impact of the pandemic on national (nay, global) mental health, we anticipating a heavy psych impact on those first festivals. I can see attendees now sayin 'Ima gonna eat all the acid!' On top of that, most of our medical staff are burnt out. They're frontliners, and have been face-to-face with covid all last year. They don't want to volunteer for an imprudent festival.

This was just a preparatory meeting, just so we could get a feel of where we all stand. My gut feeling is that JM isn't flexible enough mindset-wise to make a pivot. But then again, 2021 might still be too early. 

Our lawyer was there and looked in bad shape, but spoke when it was her turn. One of our docs, a dear personal friend as well, has been through a lot too. I confess, I fell out of contact with her during the pandemic, as I have with so many others. 

I'm on the fence about it all. Some smaller shows I could see doing. The shitshows like Northern Nights, a massive EDM that our dearly departed LB said was a nightmare (I've never done it) seem really infectious. 

The bottom line is that the pandemic may have killed what I've done at concerts for the past 30+ years. I'm looking to pivot myself...as if I haven't pivoted enough already.