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Covid policy at Rust All-Hands [0] > On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at the All-Hands and Unconf, we expect all attendees to test themselves in the morning.
by lr1970 2mo ago
Covid policy at Rust All-Hands [0]
> On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at the All-Hands and Unconf, we expect all attendees to test themselves in the morning.
I thought Covid is long gone. What did I miss?
[0] https://2026.rustweek.org/covid-policy-all-hands-and-unconf/ https://2026.rustweek.org/covid-policy-all-hands-and-unconf/
- throawayonthe 2mo agolong gone in the sense of media coverage perhaps? the virus hasn't gone anywhere and it's not like we have vaccines that give permanent/longterm immunity
- lr1970 2mo agoNowadays I am more concerned about measles and ebola viruses. Over-indexing on covid makes little sense in 2026.
- crote 2mo agoMeasles has a vaccine, ebola isn't found in the wild in the West. The chances of catching either from a random person at a meetup are basically zero. It is no longer a pandemic which is killing tens of thousands of people, but covid is very much still around, and there's no true long-term vaccine for it. A lot of people with it are going to be more-or-less asymptomatic. However, for a small bunch of immunocompromised people it is still very much life-altering or even deadly. For them catching it is just Not An Option, so if you want them at a large-scale meetup like this you'll have to ask all attendants to make the offer of spending a few seconds taking the $2 test.