As in-person web standards meetings have been starting again, one thing I've been thinking about is the level of trust around following COVID rules that we're placing in our colleagues. 1/4
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I'd trust many colleagues not to come to the office they go to every day if they have COVID symptoms or a positive test... but I've realized that I wouldn't trust many of the same people to do the same at a meeting they've flown across the continent/world to attend. 2/4
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I realized this after discussions about different people's views of the COVID rules for meetings that I've been involved in. Thinking about the big difference between those two situations has made me much more pessimistic about in-person standards meetings & conferences. 3/4
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I'll be attending @w3c TPAC next week virtually rather than going to Vancouver. I'm expecting I'll continue attending things virtually for a while, although I'm still hoping the bivalent COVID vaccine boosters will change the situation substantially. 4/4

Sep 7, 2022 · 5:30 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @w3c
Do you think the bivalent boosters will do that even against reduced global availability? Or do you expect that to change? (For instance, in the UK most people cannot get another booster right now, and even people who can are not guaranteed to get the new bivalent ones.)
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I have some hope that the new boosters might change my personal situation. It's clear we've given up on treating this as a public health problem; it's just a personal health problem now. We'll see how effective they are against current variants.
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Replying to @davidbaron @w3c
I’m kinda expecting to be wearing my not-very-comfortable-but-effective respirators for all of TPAC. Which also depends on how the ventilation is gonna be… I’ve wondered about tweeting CO2 readings on a regular basis, and whether I can automate it in any meaningful way…
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