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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:02:11 JST Adrianna Tan

   Re conferences people should probably just do virtual ones if possible. If it’s not safe for others to enter the U.S. it’s also not safe for many people to leave it.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:04:35 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Many immigrants I know are not leaving right now as far as possible.

     A Singaporean friend who went home for a routine visa stamping had his visa categorically and arbitrarily denied (this rarely happens to us) and he can’t return. The degree of fuckery is high all around

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     Andy McKay (andymckay@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:15:05 JST Andy McKay

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     @skinnylatte sounds like a very US centric view, there are many other countries and citizens that can travel around freely.

     The choice shouldn’t be virtual or not based on what the US is up to.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:15:05 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Andy McKay

     @andymckay this was directly in response to the people posting here about not going to conferences in the U.S. I should have been clearer. Thanks

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:15:46 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Dodo III.

     @Dodo_sipping always high on my mind when I leave and now I’m never leaving

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     Dodo III. (dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:15:47 JST Dodo III.

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     @skinnylatte holy shit. Imagine that. You have a life and everything and can't return to it without warning or any preparation. 😳

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:32:25 JST Adrianna Tan

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     That said if you’re from another ‘first world’ country even the ‘nice’ ones and you believe that it’s safe for brown and black people at your country’s borders, you also have no idea and I would highly encourage you to look into it

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     Joyce Park (troutgirl@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 09:06:01 JST Joyce Park

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     @skinnylatte I am telling immigrant parents NOT to take their unvaccinated kids out of the country. ONE non-vaccinated infant who lives in the Seattle area contracted measles while overseas in what circumstantial evidence suggests was South or Southeast Asia -- and I'm virtually certain that this regime will ignore that 150 white Christian kids with measles in Texas, and focus on the one immigrant kid with measles in Seattle to keep ALL IMMIGRANTS out of at least subject them to quarantine. It's just not safe to take non-white kids out of the country -- and it's always unwise to take unvaccinated infants -- until we know what the penalties are.