Contra Mask Status
As we get into summer and covid levels continue to fall, a lot of contra dances are rethinking their approaches to masking. At this point contra dances are the only places I go that require masks, though they're also the closest I get to large numbers of people.
Prompted by an initial search Harris shared with me, I used TryContra to get a list of all 39 New England dances and manually checked their mask rules. I found a bit under half of dances require them (sheet):
State Required Optional Percentage Required MA 12 3 80% ME 0 11 0% CT 0 5 0% NH 1 3 25% VT 2 1 67% RI 0 1 0% Total 15 24 38%