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Lupi @lupi9/7/2023, 5:55 PM

Dogs, Et-Setter-Ra @Pupperpotamus

Dogs, Et-Setter-Ra @Pupperpotamus9/7/2023, 5:54 PM

Anthro New England 2024 & Bivalent Vaccines

Anthro New England 2024 is a con I'm planning to go to next January. A lot of my friends will be there.

Anthro New England is also a convention which is sticking to a rule requiring Bivalent vaccines for all attendees.

For the record, Bivalent vaccinations were introduced around Autumn last year. If your last jab was before then, then you haven't got a bivalent vaccination. Good.

Yeah, that's good and all, the point of them is that they offer extra immunisation from Omicron. As someone who has had Covid twice, both at cons, less Covid is good, actually.

Small problem. Not everyone is from America. Not everyone who wants a booster can walk into a pharmacy and get a booster.

A bivalent booster is something which was initially needed by FWA and BLFC, both of which rolled back on because, as it turns out, if you do not live in america, you cannot simply walk into a pharmacy and get one.

Almost all of Europe's state healthcare providers offer autumn boosters exclusively to those over 65, or extremely clinically vulnerable, and no-one else. Sure, that's not ideal but you must be able to get them privately?

As a matter of fact... no.

So... yeah. I emailed about this. The head of con-ops replied to me. According to their signature, they're a nurse. Awesome.

"Just get one from walgreens when you arrive", they said

Oh, sure, let me just get a booster, paid for by the american taxpayer, as a fucking tourist. If, as a tourist, I can even get that (I was told that undocumented migrants can get them) I can then deal with 48 hours of feeling like shit, potentitally leading to complications that the american healthcare system will get the pleasure of dealing with, and after all of that, a week after I get back home, the vaccine will finally take effect.

This needs to fucking change. You're a nurse. You know that getting a vaccination 24 hours before the first day will do nothing but check a box. This is not ok. At all.

So, yeah. Another wonderful example of America-centric world view assuming that getting a jab is as easy as going to a pharmacy and saying "jab please :)" because that's how it works for them and that must be how it works for everyone else.

I would get another jab the second I was offered, actually. That's just not how it works here, though

#Anthro New England #ANE #vaccination #Bivalent

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in reply to @Pupperpotamus's post:

PinballsWizard @pinball9/7/2023, 6:43 PM

what's the change you figure needs to happen? dropping bivalent requirements, exceptions from the bivalent requirement for those who can't get it, pushing harder locally for access to it, etc?

Dogs, Et-Setter-Ra @Pupperpotamus9/7/2023, 6:57 PM

Honestly, dropping the requirement for international attendees, with the compromise being a requirement that if international attendees cannot access a bivalent jab they should have the option of a recent negative test result in the past 7 days, as was required for entry into multiple countries as recently as last year.

I also find it slightly annoying to have a hard requirement for a bivalent vaccination, but no specifics on the quality of face covering which needs to be used (such as SN95 or FFP2) in their mask policy, as early research showed that some common face coverings that people were using, such as buff neck gaiters actually aerosolised the pathogen making it spread even further.

I do really hope this changes, as I mentioned in the post, both FWA and BLFC started with a Bivalent requirement, and both dropped it because of this exact issue for prospective international attendees.

PinballsWizard @pinball9/7/2023, 7:01 PM

i think that's a good strong compromise, and i wish more cons would pick up something like that

i had initially planned out going to blfc back when they had the bivalent requirement, and i'm still planning on going though i admit it worries more the closer the time comes, especially since mask requirements are also not in effect...

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