Thanks, Dan and others for your thoughts. I think I will probably wait to register until a week or two before the Symposium.
I have two concerns. One is just the fact that just having restrictions takes a lot of the fun out of coming. Social distancing and masking would definitely make the Symposium experience less appealing. The other is getting stuck there and not being able to come home because of a false positive test as the tests are not that reliable. That would be a disaster. I don’t worry about coming down with Covid myself while there as the chances of that happening for me is approximately zero given I have not had a sore throat, cold, or flu in 50 years now since I figured out, for me, how to eliminate viral diseases. I never get sick anymore even when around sick people. Doug Smith Sent from my iPhone IPhone: 408-858-4528 Office: 702-570-6108 Email: [email protected] Website: http://dsmith.org ________________________________ From: Dan Roman <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 5:41:26 AM To: doug emcesd.com <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [PSES] EMC/SIPI symposium question Hi Doug, Based on the events of the past two years I think the only thing that you can predict for the symposium is that conditions in a pandemic are unpredictable. We have no hope of getting rid of variants until the whole world is vaccinated and boosted (probably multiple times at the current rate of vaccination). So who can say if a peak of upsilon or omega will coincide with the symposium? Depends also on the policies of the symposium organizers. CES proceeded with their live in-person show this month with vaccine mandates and testing. Probably won’t know for another week if it resulted in a COVID bloom. But if it proves to have been successfully and safely conducted, it could be a model for future conference organizers. Dan From: doug emcesd.com [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 5:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PSES] EMC/SIPI symposium question Hi Everyone, I just saw an announcement from the Symposium in August in Spokane, WI and had a question. What is the current Covid climate like there from the point of review of restrictions and as a local, do you think it will change by the end of summer? The kind of typical restrictions I see around the country would make the event not worth attending for me, certainly taking away from the pleasure of going to the Symposium, potentially increasing the cost of going there significantly. I am hoping that like England, Ireland, and Denmark have done, all the restrictions will go away soon here. Here in Boulder City, NV my personal life has been very little effected during the pandemic. I hope Spokane is the same. 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