Re: COVID [was: Re: DebConf 25 Daily announcements - 2025.07.15 - Daytrip information && DebConf Day 2]

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 22/07/2025 07:51, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:
> I believe the 
> current one is counterproductive (as it actually incentivizes people to 
> not test or take any visible action if they suspect they could be 
> positive). It also currently only cares about COVID, while other 
> diseases (like the flu) are also known to be dangerous, especially to 
> vulnerable people.

A couple of small notes here - I can see that one might want to avoid 
testing under the current policy[0], but I don't see that it encourages 
not taking visible action; I wore a mask for much of DebConf and no-one 
started asking me about my infectious status.

And better ventilation and more encouragement of everyone to wear a mask 
would reduce the risk of transmitting flu and colds also, so wins all 
round :)

Regards,

Matthew

[0] whether or not that's an ethical desire I will not examine here