GDQ having no mask requirement when raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation is a particularly bitter irony. fuck cancer in theory but fuck people with cancer in practice
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It’s so disappointing when they were one of the only cons requiring masks for so long.
can't wait to see the fallout from people flying directly from FurCon -> AGDQ -> MAGFest none of which have covid policies anymore
i mean that with bitter resignation, i hope there is zero fallout but realistically, but idk, probably not
Yeah, I was planning on going to magfest for the first time this year, until they announced they were abandoning their mask policy.
people have just forgotten masks were ever anything other than something that makes them uncomfy umu
i honestly think our science communication was so bad that... i'm not sure a lot of people really understood them in the first place?
like there are still a few people i see around using them, right? but they'll be wearing the same old cloth masks from 2020, or only covering their mouth with their entire nose just hanging out
it just... can't be malicious compliance at this point, because wearing one at all makes them an outlier? but, i don't know, what else can i conclude here other than people never really understood?
yeah, I think this is basically it. the CDC and other government organizations were hell-bent on downplaying the pandemic for economic reasons while also emphasizing the vaccine as a panacea to drive up vax rates, so most people have no understanding of the real risk profile at all
I until recently helped run a medical research conference, everyone who attends works in a lab, we've had so many in-person covid lectures and workshops with maybe 10% masking and I'll get comments all day when I wear one. It's not a lack of education
i can’t take the little shitty comments, it’s so obnoxious
if someone gave me an obnoxious comment for wearing a mask at a medical conference I would be on the news
ohhhhh.......... i hadnt caught any of the stream yet, i was really hoping they went digital again.
When I read that MFF 2023 decided to make vaccination and masking optional, I decided not to go and canceled my hotel, and will probably never go, because anti-deadly-disease stuff is now optional in a lot of people’s minds.
This is probably not a hot take to you, but I sorta feel like GDQ should have both learned and burnt from attempting to hold a high attendance convention/event in the middle of 2022 when Covid was even less over than it is now...
Speedrunning as a global interest deserves better.
I agree with your general point but I'm not sure what you mean by "when Covid was even less over than it is now" given that we're currently in the biggest spike since winter 2021
In early 2022, when it was announced that SGDQ 2022 would be an in-person event, many people were still acknowledging that Covid was still A Thing That People Should Know Still Exists. And they made decision to hold the event anyway...
in 2022 people were yelling at me for saying that about gdq :\ i'm glad there's more concensus now on here but like. oof.
