I think this is a complete list of everything that was done, before and after the decision to expand. Is that correct? If so, what’s the subset of things that were done to compensate for expansion?
Some of the things I listed were added to the COVID Protocol only after the decision to expand. One example of this is that we weren’t planning on requiring tests before we decided to expand. We also decided to closely monitor the number of people who were present in any given room, especially during lunch, when we thought more people would be unmasked. (Very few of the attendees ended up using masks regularly, which we did not expect, so lunch was not as unique as we thought it would be.) I think the most important thing we did to compensate for the expansion, however, was to add the second venue and the marquees (as I mentioned before).
I do think, though, that the impression given was that the marquees would be relatively safer places to meet
We indeed thought that the marquees would be more ventilated than they were. I agree that this is the impression we communicated to attendees.
Seems like if you’re already on the honour system, you might as well ask people to take a test every day?
I’m not sure how this follows, but you can probably make the argument that we should have pushed people to take tests more frequently. I am undecided on this, and we discussed this option. We ended up encouraging people to take frequent tests but not forcing it. (I don’t really know what kind of response to this point you’re looking for.)
Some of the things I listed were added to the COVID Protocol only after the decision to expand. One example of this is that we weren’t planning on requiring tests before we decided to expand. We also decided to closely monitor the number of people who were present in any given room, especially during lunch, when we thought more people would be unmasked. (Very few of the attendees ended up using masks regularly, which we did not expect, so lunch was not as unique as we thought it would be.) I think the most important thing we did to compensate for the expansion, however, was to add the second venue and the marquees (as I mentioned before).
We indeed thought that the marquees would be more ventilated than they were. I agree that this is the impression we communicated to attendees.
I’m not sure how this follows, but you can probably make the argument that we should have pushed people to take tests more frequently. I am undecided on this, and we discussed this option. We ended up encouraging people to take frequent tests but not forcing it. (I don’t really know what kind of response to this point you’re looking for.)