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> It's not taking place this year: https://events.ccc.de/category/37c3/#no-congress-2022-en

What's this hygiene stuff they're talking about? Did they get in trouble with the venues over attendees not showering or something?

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COVID measures. Germany is relatively strict, for example, N95 (FFP2) masks are still mandatory in long distance trains, and at the time where they would have had to decide whether to do or cancel the event, it was completely unclear if measures would be lifted or if e.g. such events would be banned or hit with limitations that would make them infeasible.

Presumably masking, daily tests, disinfectant dispensers everywhere, etc.

When the organizers decided this, it wasn't yet completely obvious that Covid would be "over" by fall.

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