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From: Bernard Peek <bap@shrdlu.com>
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Subject: Re: Readercon code of conduct
Date: 24 May 2024 19:20:10 GMT
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On 2024-05-24, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 22 May 2024, James Nicoll wrote:
>
>> In article <v2kkrb$15g4e$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Gary McGath  <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
>>> The latest in my series of blog posts on convention codes of conduct
>>> covers Readercon. Points discussed include the conflation of good ideas
>>> with requirements, the usual prohibition on saying anything derogatory
>>> about anybody, and mask/vaccination policy.
>>>
>>> https://garymcgath.com/wp/readercon-code-of-conduct/
>>
>> As it happens, I was for a while the only person at work who still
>> masked*, work in this case being live theatre in facilities with up
>> to 700 people. Coincidentally, I am also the only person on staff
>> who has not caught covid. For a while there, a significant fraction
>> of my shifts were me subbing for sick people.
>
> So? I'm not vaccinated and most people I know who are, have gotten corona 
> 2-3 times more often than I have. Sweden proved scientifically, that the 
> best way to handle corona was without masks and without restrictions and 
> without forced vaccinations.

They did try that but it failed and they fairly quickly followed the same
procedures as everyone else.

Lots of people now have their fingers crossed hoping the bird-flu doesn't
spread any further.


-- 
Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan