I mean, that goes for a lot of big social events (wrt existing health conditions); immunocompromised people have always been at risk for that kinda stuff, even

I mean, that goes for a lot of big social events (wrt existing health conditions); immunocompromised people have always been at risk for that kinda stuff, even before COVID. It feels a tad absurd to demand following what are arguably unnecessary extra regulations at this point (vaccines have been made widely available for the majority of the populace; Germany has a non-booster vaccination rate of 72%, about 6% above the usual 2/3rds you need for herd immunity to kick in; 62% has at least one booster[0] - these are rates somewhat consistent across most of Europe at that[1] and purely anecdotally speaking, C3 leans heavily European in attendance). The insistence that masking up as a requirement is still necessary as if we're on the peak of COVID just strikes me as odd (and tends to not translate well outside online spaces anyway - good luck convincing people that masks are necessary when most of them took the vaccine the moment they could specifically so that life could get back to normal and they didn't need to mask up all the time; for most people, COVID as a pandemic ended when they got their vaccination). If you want to do it on your own terms, sure, nobody will stop you (in fact I think the world could learn a bit from the general tedency of masking up if they have a cold like they do in countries such as Japan out of general politeness) but to request events keep doing it for everyone is a bit silly. Following government regulations is the right call here. [0]: https://impfdashboard.de/en/ https://impfdashboard.de/en/ [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1196071/covid-19-vaccination-rate-in-europe-by-country/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1196071/covid-19-vaccina... - stat is per 100 people; a rate of above 200 means that the majority of people also got their second shot.