Health Policy

Health Policy

Our Goal: to ensure that members can safely enjoy the convention.

• We have a duty to help protect one another and keep our community as healthy as possible.
• We will be an in-person event being held while COVID-19 is still present.
• We cannot totally eliminate the risk this presents.
• Members will be coming from all over the world and gathering indoors in a large group across multiple days.
• Not everyone faces the same risk from COVID-19.
• Members can use our policies to decide if attending Worldcon in Brisbane in 2028 in person meets their risk tolerance.
• We also are providing a virtual option for attendance if the measures described below do not meet members’ risk tolerance for attending in person.
• Any harassment made towards another member who chooses to mask during our event will fall within our Code of Conduct.
• We will provide a means of voluntary illness reporting during and after the convention, with anonymity if desired.

Mask Policy

We strongly recommend and encourage mask-wearing at our event. To that end, masks will be available throughout our convention for individual use. Members will be able to pick them up at the information table, the exhibit hall desk, events office, and program operations office. We especially recommend wearing a mask while in our smaller programming rooms.

Illness Policy

Members who fall ill during the convention are asked to isolate in their hotel rooms and attend virtually.

Prospect of Future Changes

These policies may be updated to respond to new directives or recommendations from our local public health entities or due to local law. We will endeavor to only change these policies in order to increase protections. If we are required to loosen protections, we will send a message to all members informing them of the change.