canyonwalker | About that Sickness I Didn't Get...

Earlier this week I posted Did I Dodge Covid Again? about not getting sick at a conference in late November. I'd seen by then that many of my colleagues who were there with me got sick the following week with some kind of cold, flu, or Covid. Like, half of everyone was visibly, miserably sick. By late this week it was closer to two-thirds. I saw, too, that it wasn't just my coworkers. A lot of customers I've talked to who attended mentioned getting sick, often in the form of explaining why they would be unable to attend a meeting or needed to cancel or reschedule. It seems that AWS re:Invent 2023 may have been a superspreader event....