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In my country it is like covid never happened. Yet, there are quite a few people for whom covid is still a threat. People with long covid for instance or respiratory illnesses. There are Free Software conferences that take that into account, as part of inclusion.

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I hear what you are saying. IMO, the mask and covid measures in Portland feels to me to be more political based.

I really don’t understand the logic in America when it comes to the current thinking about covid measures.

You could say I have a Scandinavian perspective to this, but here in Norway everyone listened and trusted to what the government recommended and/or mandated. It has been a little more than a year since the last pandemic measure was lifted and we have been back to “normal”.

There are no government mandates in effect here in Portland either. Any masking/testing rules in place for the conference are due to the event’s policies.

Government mandates or recommendations[1] for such, at this point.

1. https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Pages/Masks.aspx

Right. And, given who is running this event, there is some backstory that makes it unsurprising that it's trying to be especially accommodating of people who are vulnerable.

> I really don’t understand the logic in America when it comes to the current thinking about covid measures.

It is not America. It is a very small subset of the 330M+ people living here. I would venture to say 90%+ have not thought about Covid in a long time.

Thanks, I should have been more specific to Portland.

Portland isn't making the rules. A specific open source organization (that is not based in Portland in any material way) is making the rules.

It is a small subset in Portland too.

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