TwitchCon Decides To Give A Shit That The Pandemic Is Nonetheless Taking place

Replace 08/12/2022 1:55 p.m. ET: A brand new weblog submit from Twitch states that TwitchCon San Diego attendees will now be required to put on masks indoors. The weblog submit additionally notes that every one attendees should present proof of vaccination or a destructive covid take a look at taken inside 72 hours of the occasion. Authentic article continues under:

TwitchCon shall be going down in San Diego between October 7-9, and for those who had any ideas about attending by any means, know that the organisers are beneath the belief 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 individual palms.

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In a bit referred to as “Well being Measures” on the present’s web site (noticed by Zach Bussey), organisers say that “TwitchCon San Diego shall be introduced in accordance with relevant public well being and security pointers as of the date of the occasion,” which implies that “the well being and security measures for our occasion could change at any time as decided by federal or native authorities businesses, the venue and/or Twitch.”

Because it stands at time of publishing, nonetheless, these measures are virtually non-existent. Attendees received’t must be vaccinated, received’t want to point out take a look at outcomes, and received’t even have to 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 shall be no COVID-19 vaccination or testing necessities at TwitchCon San Diego. Though masks are inspired, they aren’t at the moment required to attend TwitchCon. Please guarantee you might be comfy 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 Comedian-Con confirmed these huge occasions are nonetheless serving to unfold Covid, with even star panellists like George R.R. Martin coming away from the present testing constructive. With vaccinations on the degree they’re, and other people simply usually eager to be over the pandemic, you possibly can perceive some lessening of restrictions, if solely so the present might happen in any respect. However to desert all of them? That’s extraordinarily shitty.

Particularly when TwitchCon’s line is that, “Effectively San Diego doesn’t have guidelines so we received’t both,” when Comedian-Con—a a lot greater occasion—was solely simply held on the identical venue in the identical metropolis, and its organisers mandated not solely the carrying of masks, but additionally proof of vaccination (or a current destructive take a look at).

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When Twitch say that “the well being and security measures for our occasion could change at any time,” let’s hope that point could be very quickly (there’s already a submission on Twitch to at the least make masks necessary), in any other case attending positive seems like a dangerous thought.