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Re: [admin-discuss] Suggestion for COVID management at future meetings

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Tue, 30 August 2022 18:40 UTC

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From: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [admin-discuss] Suggestion for COVID management at future meetings
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> On Aug 30, 2022, at 10:46 AM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
> It appears that Jay Daley  <exec-director@ietf.org> said:
>> Hi All
>> 
>> I’ve had an offlist suggestion for a different COVID management policy for future IETF meetings (i.e. 116 and
>> possibly after that), which is that we ask all onsite participants to take a rapid antigen test each morning and
>> confirm that is clear before participating and then masks are optional and there is no vaccination requirement.
>> It would be useful to hear what people think of that.
> 
> That would be a poor idea. Rapid tests are useful tools but as we all
> know, they are not infallible and it is quite possible to have COVID
> for a while before testing positive.
> 
> Universal masking slows down transmission in both directions, limiting
> the amount of virus that an infected person exhales, and also limiting
> what uninfected people inhale. Masking at 114 seems to have worked
> quite well. As I understand it the number of people who got COVID at
> the meeting, as opposed to getting it on the way to the meeting, was
> very low.
> 
> Wearing masks is not particularly pleasant, and it is a pain for some
> of us to find masks that fit (the free ones at 114 were too small for
> me) but we know how to do it, and it's cheap.

+1

Bob

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