Well, it would seem that any notion of DCP being extra-cautious during this vacation have been laid to rest. And it didn't stop there:
SeN wrote:This evening (Saturday evening) we participated in the showing of our Witnesses dramatic film on a full screen in a commercial theater at Thanksgiving Point. There were twenty of us scattered about the largish auditorium, and masks were plentiful. The movie still needs to have its sound and its color regularized, and one scene remains to be filmed, and there will certainly be some additional tweaks — we had some very good comments tonight — but it’s essentially finished. (The documentary and the “snippets,” the short documentary features, still remain to be done.)
Was this at the Megaplex Theaters in Lehi, I wonder? If so, that is a theater complex that is actually *open* right now, screening older films such as
Jurassic Park and
Raiders of the Lost Ark. So, basically, all sorts of people are patronizing this establishment--or, at least, they theoretically *could*. (Are there other movie theaters in Thanksgiving Point?) So, why put these 20 people at risk? The science on the coronavirus clearly states that the risk is exponentially higher for people who are indoors like that. And they likely would have gone into other, common spaces, right? How long is the film? What are the odds that someone would have needed to use the public restroom?
And all of this could have been avoided. They could have screened it at home. (Big screen home television sets these days can be very, very nice indeed.) Or,
they could have done an outdoor screening--something which, If I recall correctly, has precedent with the Mopologists. I think they've projected old, anti-Mormon films on blankets in somebody's backyard before.
Regardless, what was the point of this, exactly? Why, if the film has been pushed back into 2021, was it necessary to drag people into an active movie theater complex during a surge in the pandemic? Clearly, some people have other priorities.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14