E3 2022 will be a online-only event - ESA cites COVID-19 concerns

give me a break

100's of thousands of people are attending nfl football games across the country weekly with no spike compared to pre football season. Why are these companies still pretending they cant have in person events. This is hurting the gaming industry, the tech industry and just setting us back , when its time to rebuild. Face it, the virus aint going anywhere, just get your vaccine or natural whatever and get on with your life. This got old and transparent a year ago.
 
100's of thousands of people are attending nfl football games across the country weekly with no spike compared to pre football season. Why are these companies still pretending they cant have in person events. This is hurting the gaming industry, the tech industry and just setting us back , when its time to rebuild. Face it, the virus aint going anywhere, just get your vaccine or natural whatever and get on with your life. This got old and transparent a year ago.

This is a bit naive to think like this, of several reasons...

Firstly, there are a lot of people out there that are against vaccines, so they will always pose a much bigger threat no matter how you look at it. Even if you are fully vaccinated, that doesn't guarantee anything.

It doesn't make you immune, doesn't make it so that you can't get infected again and potentially spread it to others as well. The risk is a lot smaller if you are vaccinated than if you aren't. People seem to think that just because you're fully vaccinated, everything as it were before, that you are fuly immune, that you can't get the virus again etc.

These are the reasons the virus can keep on mutating so much and hence why it spreads to fast. Our vaccines are unfortunately getting less and less resistent to the virus. It was made for the original Corona virus, not the mutations that came after it.

Luckily they are still done well enough that they do have some protection against the new mutations and let's hope they do keep doing so for potential future mutations that might pop up.

This is why in person events are still so dangerous, because no one can predict these things, no one can fully protect people no matter how many cautions you do/take. Hence it's a lot smarter to not do them at all, seeing as we are still not at the end of the pandemic.
 
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To add to that, most sports events are outside, E3 and most similar events are in big event halls which usually cannot ventilate the air properly enough for the insane amount of people inside, doing such events inside is just asking for a lot of infections very quickly and it is no surprise most of those get cancelled.
 
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