Last spring, when the pandemic hit, I've had three conference talks cancelled. This week, I received emails from two of the conferences about resurrecting the program in 2021, and whether I would like the papers submitted in the past to go ahead as they were. 1/
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One of the conferences was to be held in a location in Canada. The health district where it would have taken place has a cumulative #COVID19 count of 206 cases and 6 deaths. 2/
The conference organizers are taking the conference online--with apologies to those for whom that's a barrier. I will be able to attend. 3/
The other conference was to be held at a coastal city in the US. It's moved location to another, bigger city, and will be held, in a hotel and in person, in a county that currently has a cumulative #COVID19 case count of 27K and nearly 600 deaths. 4/
I will not be traveling. 5/
I'm sure the organizers of the conference are working within the guidelines that exist in their city, county, and state. I'm putting these numbers there to illustrate how skewed those guidelines are and what disregard for human life they communicate. 6/
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