sgdq/covid doomsaying, long
Like here's the thing that scares the hell out of vee: this isn't like a normal convention. You got people who are like "I'm going anyway because I haven't seen my friends in 3 years!". Yeah, but there's another layer.
With the 1500 attendance cap, about a fifth (by my back of envelope math) of that is directly involved in production of the event (staff, runners, commentary). Given what the event is, the likelihood of someone going "I'm going anyway" is far greater than an anime con.
Having been to a GDQ, quarters are... close to say the least. They cut the cap in half but IMO that's not enough. All it's going to take is one person doing this and it's going to be a mess.
And you know, the common counter-argument is "We gotta go back to normal sometime! We gotta just deal" but I'm doing the math on how many people stood outside the elevators after the finale of AGDQ 2020 in tight quarters and it's not looking good. That's just one incident and one example.
Cases are going up again too. That seems to be how it goes. Every time one of these bad ideas gets close, we have a spike right before, just to send a warning shot that people are sure to ignore.
I don't recall the numbers on long-covid turning into a chronic life-long condition. I wanted to say it was 16% of healthy people who get it will develop something. I don't think people realize the risk they're taking.
With the 1500 attendance cap, about a fifth (by my back of envelope math) of that is directly involved in production of the event (staff, runners, commentary). Given what the event is, the likelihood of someone going "I'm going anyway" is far greater than an anime con.
Having been to a GDQ, quarters are... close to say the least. They cut the cap in half but IMO that's not enough. All it's going to take is one person doing this and it's going to be a mess.
And you know, the common counter-argument is "We gotta go back to normal sometime! We gotta just deal" but I'm doing the math on how many people stood outside the elevators after the finale of AGDQ 2020 in tight quarters and it's not looking good. That's just one incident and one example.
Cases are going up again too. That seems to be how it goes. Every time one of these bad ideas gets close, we have a spike right before, just to send a warning shot that people are sure to ignore.
I don't recall the numbers on long-covid turning into a chronic life-long condition. I wanted to say it was 16% of healthy people who get it will develop something. I don't think people realize the risk they're taking.
