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3. “Indoor venues with 5,000 or more people should implement a similar verification. However, at these indoor events, non-vaccinated people who don't show a negative COVID-19 test result shouldn't enter, the state recommends.”
Without the force of law and criminal penalties I don't see how that's going to happen. Even with the threat of that, a large fraction of the population ignores mask mandates. Here's an example of that.Being private property Costco can set any requirement for entry that it wants. Yet people feel entitled to enter. SDCC has the same control over who can enter comic-con. But what are the chances of them being able to do so? The easiest way would be to make vaccination a requirement to purchase or win or be issued a badge. That would be problematic. In the US, it's a piece of cardboard. Someone would have to verify each card and it would be easy to send in a photoshopped image of one. Other countries have their own methods to prove vaccination that SDCC would have to support.The other way is the honor system. Are people who have shown they aren't willing to follow covid safety recommendations going follow this? I don't think so. Imagine the epic scenes that would happen at the door if they are challenged. It would be very un-comic-con like. I've worked doors before. I was told that if people insist on entry even though their badge tags red, let them in. Comic-con is about having fun.Without the government and law enforcement providing cover, I don't think any convention will take it upon themselves to do it. Companies have already conceded that point. Just look at how many large retailers have dropped any mask requirement. Even though it's against CDC recommendations.
In terms of making vaccination a requirement of badge purchase, I think that's an idea worth exploring. I could be wrong, but it is my understanding that vaccinations can be verified electronically. I was sent a code by email. It doesn't solve the immediate problem of all the current badge holders that were promised the rollover for 2022. Does SDCC just say the rules have changed? I'm guessing that most of us got vaccinations, but there's very little chance that everybody did. It would make a hell of an incentive to get it done though.
Petco had two large, for the pandemic, concerts this last weekend. Both with about 7,000 people. They had separate seating areas for the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated.
How did they determine who was vaccinated.