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Nowadays I am more concerned about measles and ebola viruses. Over-indexing on covid makes little sense in 2026.

• crote 2mo ago
  Measles 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.