Comic-Con Mask Mandate, COVID Tests and Vaccinations Explained

[pstokely]

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/comic-con-covid-mask-mandate-vaccines-1235314080/

"San Diego Comic-Con kicks off its first in-person, full-sized event in over two years next Thursday with more than 130,000 people expected to attend. The first Comic-Con since the pandemic, with the exception of the mini special edition held last Thanksgiving weekend, will see the over 50-year-old event hit its highest-ever number of attendees wearing masks because, cosplaying or not, they will all be required to don one to get in.

“The main thing we discussed with everybody is that we were going to continue a mask mandate,” San Diego Comic-Con International spokesperson David Glanzer told Variety Monday, when speaking of initial conversations with studios, networks and exhibitors about bringing everyone back for an in-person show. “We had that in the Comic-Con special edition, which was our smaller show that we had in November in San Diego. We had that at WonderCon, which is our sister show in Anaheim. And we just decided early on to continue that, even though there were a lot of entities that were not doing mask mandates. In fact, I did an interview where the outlet, I don’t know if they were critical, but they didn’t understand why we were having a mask mandate. And honestly, at the time, we wanted to try to be as safe as we could be, taking precautions that we felt were necessary.”

Amid reports that reinfections and hospitalizations are increasing with the spread of the BA.5 variant of COVID-19, the choice to carry the mask mandate put in place last November over to its flagship July 21-24 event is certainly a better-safe-than-sorry option for the premier fan event’s big return."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I don't go to Comic Cons, but I do go to a number of science fiction cons.

They were all cancelled or only virtual after March 2020, and started coming back late in 2021. Masks have been encouraged at the ones I've attended. Mandatory at COSine, which is in Colorado Springs. Also, proof of vaccination was required. What I love about the science fiction world is that it is VERY science oriented.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. My youngest child was at RT or Rooster Teeth in Austin two weekends ago

Everyone even people in costume were required to wear masks

[JCMach1]

3. Seeing how Omicron was spreading in Kenya (reality vs. official)

I really don't see masks, or much else that would slow the Omicron variants short of canceling events like these.



These variants burn right through vaccines and previous case immunity.

[jmowreader]

4. It seems only logical...

...that people making comic book-themed masks are going to need dump trucks to haul all the money to the bank after Comic-Con is over as long as there's a mask mandate in place. Why go wearing a boring blue paper mask when you can wear one with Wolverine or The Joker on it?