I’ve never attended a wordcamp but this decisions seems premature and short sighted, as

I really don’t think the foundation are qualified to judge safety next year, especially as whilst cases keep rising. Death rates keep falling.
Wordpress is a community and nothing replaces face time for building relationships (and community).

Also the WHO “once in a century” statement is idiotic. The WHO was founded in 1946 and there have been two respiratory pandemic since then which killed more than COVID-19.