On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:51:09PM +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Freedom is a right, but has to be used responsibly. The virus is still > out there, people are still going to the hospital and to the cemetery > because of it. We still lack proper treatments and vaccines, and as far > as I know there are no strong results on acquired immunity yet. So, as > soon as we resume exposing people to each other as before, numbers will > start to grow again. A few places already had to reinstate confinement > rules after removing them, because they realized that the spread was > restarting as before. > > I believe that it is good to allow some mobility, so that people can at > least meet their families and close friends. It is a risk, but one that > in some sense we need to take, in order to avoid other worse > psychological damages. But meetings should remain as small as possible, > and as geographically confined as possible. Organizing conferences with > hundreds of people coming from all over the world is, in my opinion, > irresponsible: you give the virus the best conditions to spread as much > as possible, stirring different strains and defeating the acquired > immunity different world regions might develop. Totally a bad idea, if > you ask me, even if legally possible. > > I am sorry for the organizing team, who for sure has poured a lot of > energy and dedication into DebConf20. They deserve all our gratitude and > they have all mine. I know it is disappointing to see their efforts > wasted, but in the current situation I don't think it is responsible to > physically meet from all over the world. It's not just about the risk > each individual attendee would accept to take: it's the risk our whole > communities take (particularly the vulnerable ones, from the health > viewpoint) when individuals allow the virus to spread. > > I hope that Debian does not organize any non-local physical meeting this > year, although I am sad this has to happen.
+1 on everything, well said. Sadly we should not let people organize a conference in our name, with our funds, using our ressources at this time. For those not following -vote@l.d.o: also see https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20200522124055.ga255...@ftbfs.de -- cheers, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
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