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So if you cancel and went to 2019 will you eligible for returning reg ?If you don’t cancel will this give you two more shots to get Friday and Saturday ?
My guess is that there will be BARELY enough badges refunded for ONE badge sale. Two sales is highly unlikely. In fact, there may not even be a badge sale if not enough people ask for refunds. CCI may decide less attendees is better, or they may just auction off what inventory they have like the past couple of years.I say the chances of a Returning Registration AND a General Registration are next to nil.
^ thanks your completely right, they might run next year light on people.( I’m in the camp that thinks this will be endemic)
RETURNING ATTENDEESDue to the option of allowing Comic-Con 2020 badge holders to transfer their badges to Comic-Con 2021, there will be no Returning Registration for Comic-Con 2021. Depending on the number of refund requests received, there may be reduced inventory for sale in the fall of 2020.
It's possible that the number of transferred badges will exceed the number of people the Convention Center will be allowed to let enter at one time, even looking forward to July 2021. Of course, if there's an effective (not 70%) vaccine and everybody who's taken it has a card in their wallet (wait for the civil liberties debate on that!), it could be programmed into the badge.Oh well, I'll see what happens with my Masters Tournament practice round badges. If we could predict the future, where were we six months ago?
If there is a vaccine, that would be great. However, I do not think that will happen. What I think is possible is that there will be good enough treatments, because it's easier to repurpose or tweak drugs.That said, I am very excited about next year. I try to stay positive and believe that it will happen.
The only thing that's been shown to do anything at all directly on the virus is Remdesivir. That's not a re-purpose. Covid is it's first purpose. It's been tried on a variety of viruses through the years and this is the first time it's worked on anything. That's not uncommon in drug development. A compound is evaluated on a bunch of diseases before it's found to be effective on anything.
There's actually a science to how they repurpose drugs. They don't just throw everything at it. Well, I guess sometimes they do, but there are some techniques for weeding out which will work and which won't. It's methodical and takes time, but it's faster than throwing everything at it willy nilly.
Anyway, dexamethasone has shown great promise for preventing death last I heard. That might change, but it's things like that that give me hope. A vaccine is great. A direct treatment is great. Something that will treat/prevent death or severe manifestations is the very least of what we need to get back to "normal."
BTW, remdesivir has been around. It was not developed for COVID-19, so it is a repurposed drug. It was originally developed for ebola.
What dexamethasone does is great. So is an IV bag of saline. Dexamethasone doesn't directly treat covid, it helps with the inflammation. A bag of saline doesn't directly treat covid, it keeps you hydrated. That bag of saline is critical in preventing death but I wouldn't herald it as a treatment for covid.
(is there a topic thread for covid that may be more useful than this one to continue the conversation?)
I've said it from the start, the question was not whether there will be a comic-con in 2020, it's whether there will be one in 2021.It's not easier to re-purpose existing drugs. If there is some existing drug that will be the answer, we'd probably know by now. Everything including the kitchen sink has been thrown at it.The only thing that's been shown to do anything at all directly on the virus is Remdesivir. That's not a re-purpose. Covid is it's first purpose. It's been tried on a variety of viruses through the years and this is the first time it's worked on anything. That's not uncommon in drug development. A compound is evaluated on a bunch of diseases before it's found to be effective on anything.The nature of the challenge here is that there was never an effective treatment or vaccine for any coronavirus until Remdesivir. The value of Remdesivir is that it shows that something can work, not that it works well. The impossible has become the possible. If a vaccine can be developed by comic-con 2021, not only would that be the first coronavirus vaccine, it would be first vaccine developed in so short a time. That's a lot of firsts.
I dunno. My wife has asthma & is thus high-risk; also I'm a life-long Cleveland sports fan so I tend to lean on the pessimistic side when evaluating the future (even though it took me WAY too long to grasp the reality that SDCCI 2020 was going to be canceled). We're obviously way too far out currently to be too depressed or excited about 2021 SDCCI. I think at best, though, we should temper our expectations for a "next year" (just as Cleveland sports fans do every year :P )