A sobering article to read, especially since it’s nearly one year later, and the situation has not improved.
Granted that in our events we are following the UK government guidelines, but those guidelines are insufficient as they were created with a focus on growing the economy, and not on saving people’s lives.
The impact of Long Covid is another topic altogether, as is the changes being made in the disability legislation, some of which would remove Long Covid as a potential qualifying source of disability funding.
If you look at what happened with the Covid clusters that were caused during PyCon in the USA, or the Fan Conventions, we need to take more precautions, or we will end up killing/disabling large numbers of people who are our friends, and potential future co-op members.
Violet Blue maintains an excellent collation of advice to be found here: