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Health and Wellness Policy for Intensive Trainings

Policy:

In relation to Covid and any other contagious virus or disease, we will follow any local and/or government regulations that exist at the time of the IIT in relation to masking, testing, quarantining, or vaccination requirements. We will not avoid any of these requirements, and we will not impose any additional ones.

Background:

CNVC developed this approach for the following reasons:

  1. Since we conduct IITs all over the world, in many countries with ever-changing regulations, it's not practical for CNVC to stay up-to-date on the latest developments in each area.

  2. We want to offer consistency from one IIT to the next, at least in terms of how CNVC approaches it (obviously, we do not control which regulations countries or municipalities adopt). We want to conserve our energy, and also provide predictability and ease to people everywhere who might be considering more than one IIT.

  3. We are not trained in health, immunology, medicine, prevention, or treatment of infectious disease, so we choose to rely on local and national health agencies to know what is important to do, necessary to do, and relevant to do. We choose to trust the local health authorities to know when it is important to test, distance, gather in groups, quarantine and if it is, they will create regulations like they have done in the past. 

  4. Even if CNVC created its own policy, it could easily be overridden by a local or national government in between the time we make a policy and when the IIT occurs. This is why we prefer to follow the local health authority's policies that are current with the time, and do no more and no less.

  5. In May 2023, the World Health Organization declared the Covid pandemic to be over. CNVC is not trained in public health but the WHO has infinitely more resources to evaluate the status of an infectious disease. We do not want to claim that we know better than them about what to do, or what not to do.

  6. There is considerable controversy, pain, and disconnection around the world, including in the NVC network, about choices regarding testing, quarantining, vaccinating, mandates, treatment, and many other aspects of Covid. By deferring to the local or national health authorities, we avoid further polarization of our community as we offer a neutral position, one which is based on government requirements.

  7. For virtually every Covid mitigation strategy, there is some scientific evidence that the action is harmful and other scientific evidence that it is helpful, which points to the challenge and futility of CNVC, as a small nonprofit organization, attempting to sort through the scientific literature, make our own conclusions about it, and create our own policies.

    For example, there are peer-reviewed scientific studies that show that Covid-19 vaccines are helpful and others that show that they are harmful. Likewise, there are peer-reviewed scientific papers that show that wearing masks is harmful to the person wearing it and moreover are not effective in preventing community spread, and other papers that show that masks are harmless to the user and helpful in preventing the spread of Covid.

    It is far beyond CNVC’s capacity to sort through these arguments to find a single “truth,” but rather in this case to trust elected officials and health agencies that serve the public’s well being to let us know when the situation is important enough to require certain behaviors, and how the cost-benefit analysis works out in relation to the mitigation strategies.