#37c3 is over and now it is probably the right moment to ask how you #health status changed because of travelling to/from the event and/or joining the congress in person. #mask#ffp2#ffp3
Please note, it's not about #COVID only. At my last Congress, I missed 1½ days because of #Congressseuche and this was long before COVID.
»I wore a good mask (N95, FFP2 or better, sealing well) 100% of the time while inside (including public transportation on my way to and from the congress) and only took it off outside and did not visit any restaurant and I still got sick; and the probability that I got it somewhere else is low.«
But I do agree that proper (automated) ventilation is a far more effective measure than mask recommendations for an event of this scale.
@wonka@miketango@daswarkeinhuhn@publicvoit however, assuming 10% wore a mask (that seems to be kind of consensus, I would agree) and the answers are truthful (big if) then around 50% of all mask waring participants answered the poll. Which is a lot!
10% in total is not bad either.
Anyway, this is quite amazing in terms of amount, I feel like we will probably not get much better data on this issue of masks and 37C3...
I still want to re-publish the same survey in a couple of days because many people reminded me that the incubation period is much longer than the end of my survey.
I doubt that the second one will be as popular though.
There were less than ten percent masks on the event which is a clear indicator that the bias of this survey is huge. You can't really draw much of any conclusion out of that.
Furthermore, science proved that masks are a great tool to prevent sickness. No doubt about that.
@publicvoit I feel like this is reaching the wrong audience. It looked like not even 10% of the people were wearing masks, yet around 50% of this poll claim to have worn a mask.
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I'm really surprised that I didn't come home sick this year. I fully expected to be down for at least a week like I was after every other Congress before.
I wore a mask all the time except for when I was on stage and for a few hours on day 4 while preparing the closing slides.
It's probably not just the mask, but also a bit of luck and the fact that I made sure to get enough sleep each day because I didn't want to look half dead for the closing. 😅
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