TwitchCon Gives Zero Shits That The Pandemic Is Still Happening
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TwitchCon will likely be happening in San Diego between October 7-9, and in case you had any ideas about attending in anyway, know that the organisers are below the idea that we’re dwelling in 2019, not 2022, and that you simply’re very a lot going to be taking your private security into your personal palms.
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In a piece referred to as “Health Measures” on the present’s web site (noticed by Zach Bussey), organisers say that “TwitchCon San Diego will be presented in accordance with applicable public health and safety guidelines as of the date of the event,” which implies that “the health and safety measures for our event may change at any time as determined by federal or local government agencies, the venue and/or Twitch.”
As it stands at time of publishing, nonetheless, these measures are nearly non-existent. Attendees gained’t should be vaccinated, gained’t want to point out check outcomes, and gained’t even must put on a masks:
We’re continuously reviewing our well being and security pointers together with native authorities. In accordance with present native pointers, there will likely be no COVID-19 vaccination or testing necessities at TwitchCon San Diego. Although masks are inspired, they aren’t at the moment required to attend TwitchCon. Please guarantee you’re snug with our present well being and security measures earlier than you buy your ticket to TwitchCon.
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This pandemic will not be over! California is recording 50,000 new circumstances a day (as of this week), and the recently-held Comic-Con confirmed these large occasions are nonetheless serving to unfold Covid, with even star panellists like George R.R. Martin coming away from the present testing optimistic. With vaccinations on the stage they’re, and other people simply usually desirous to be over the pandemic, you would perceive some lessening of restrictions, if solely so the present might happen in any respect. But to desert all of them? That’s extraordinarily shitty.
Especially when TwitchCon’s line is that, “Well San Diego doesn’t have rules so we won’t either,” when Comic-Con—a a lot larger occasion—was solely simply held on the identical venue in the identical metropolis, and its organisers mandated not solely the sporting of masks, but in addition proof of vaccination (or a latest destructive check).
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When Twitch say that “the health and safety measures for our event may change at any time,” let’s hope that point may be very quickly (there’s already a submission on Twitch to at the very least make masks obligatory), in any other case attending positive appears like a dangerous thought.