[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Risker
I suspect if you took any group of 800 people who almost all traveled by air for between 8 and 25 hours from all over the world, and probably all spent what felt like way too much time in airports in each direction, and also made the conscious choice not to mask up while in close proximity with

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Neurodivergent Netizen
> It would be hard to know where you picked it up from. Certainly the longer > you?re in a venue, the chances increase but you can still pick it up in > locations you may have only spent a few minutes in. It’s difficult, but not impossible; contact tracing is A Thing, and can be traced back

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Robert Myers
It would be hard to know where you picked it up from. Certainly the longer you?re in a venue, the chances increase but you can still pick it up in locations you may have only spent a few minutes in. There was an uptick in cases world wide around the time of Wikimania. I was unable to attend due to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Neurodivergent Netizen
Testing for COVID is on the decrease. I wonder if all twenty are getting tested, or if they are getting tested, how inclined they are to tell others they’ve caught it? From, I dream of horses She/her > On Sep 8, 2023, at 7:55 AM, Reke Wang wrote: > > There was over 20 Taiwanese people

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Lane Rasberry
I got COVID at Wikimania as did my boyfriend Fabian. Our symptoms both began two days after the conference. I was sick in bed, hardly moving for 3 days. Both of us have been vaccinated five times in the United States and caught COVID one time before. Completely unrelated, but back in the United

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Reke Wang
There was over 20 Taiwanese people participated Wikimania, and only two of them has told to others that they got COVID. The other 90% participants were healthy I think. Andreas Kolbe 於 2023年9月8日 週五 下午10:44 寫道: > Hi all, > > I've heard from a couple of Wikimania attendees that they got ill with

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Neurodivergent Netizen
> I didn't attend but I'd imagine any event with international attendees would > have a increased chance of spreading covid, even if certain measures were > taken to prevent that from happening. Nevertheless, there are measures that can be taken to reduce the likelihood. Honestly, I need to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Clover Moss
I didn't attend but I'd imagine any event with international attendees would have a increased chance of spreading covid, even if certain measures were taken to prevent that from happening. On Fri, Sept 8, 2023, 10:47 a.m. Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I don't know

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I don't know if there's something statistically significant, but when I returned home, some of my friends were with COVID, and not me. It would be difficult to know if Wikimania affected people, or simply there's a spike worldwide. Take care Galder From: