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Re: [113attendees] IETF 113 Update: 2022-02-10

Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org> Thu, 17 February 2022 21:53 UTC

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> On 18/02/2022, at 10:35 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
> On 17. Feb 2022, at 19:57, Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org> wrote:
>> 
>> The good news that may encourage people to book, as others have already noted, is that the rules in Austria change from 5 March.  
> 
> Good news?  I’m not so sure.
> 
> It seems the previous carefully designed science-based prevention regimes are being thrown to a populistic bonfire of “freedom day” paroles.
> 
> This mass delusion may make traveling and meeting in person way too dangerous again.
> 
> I’m registered for onsite, and I don’t have all the data yet, but at the moment everything looks like I’ll have to reconsider.
> 

While there is indeed considerable political pressure to open up, my reading is that these decisions are still being made on a rational basis. It appears clear that omicron waves in a well vaccinated society are relatively fast, burn themselves out and result in relatively few deaths or serious injuries with the majority having mild symptoms at the most.  Austria’s omicron wave started on approximately 1 Jan and peaked on approximately 2 Feb. 

On the basis of that risk assessment and taking into account that I am in a risk group because of my medical history, I am participating in person . (The meeting would function just as well without me).  Of course each of our circumstances and personal risk assessments are different so we all make our own decisions here and I respect anyone who chooses not to travel for theirs. 

Jay

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> Grüße, Carsten
>

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