It is pretty much certain that, given the current situation, I - and supposedly many others - won't be traveling to the US this year. This means not being able to attend 3 out of 4 of the main academic security conferences, because they all keep refusing even to consider moving outside the US. Looking at you, IEEE S&P (npub1a39…n3y2), NDSS Symposium (npub1lq0…0y9k), and USENIX Security (npub1grf…9wxf).
It is clear that this is hurting the global security research community. We need to talk about major conferences outside the US to again become more inclusive.