Thomas 🔭🕹️
Would love to attend a Vintage Computing Festival.
Alas, there's no masking requirement even in the middle of COVID surges; making it way to risky as my wife is severely immunocomprised (and I to a lesser extend).
The community is talking a big talk about being inclusive, but it's really not.
And yes, it's entirely doable to run events with mandatory masking, like XOXOFest did last month.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@thomasfuchs and retro tech events are massively attended by older folks, you know, the ones who used this stuff when it was new?
In other words, the people most vulnerable to COVID!
It makes no god damn sense.
Thomas 🔭🕹️
@foone the older retrocomputing folks who famously live super healthy lifestyles and are extremely fit and have perfect immune systems and don’t hang out in basements and dens all day long
Foone🏳️⚧️
@thomasfuchs exactly!
Hell, I know people who got into computers because they weren't into the stuff other kids were, because they had too much asthma to play soccer or whatever.
How do you think THEY like the no masks policy?
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