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NEWS: Anime Central 2022 Reverses Mask Policy, No Longer Requires COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative T

Things like this make me feel like I’m the crazy one. Almost no one around me wear masks anymore other than friends and family and even if you’re not scared of COVID there’s a crap ton of pollen in the air.
I don’t know, it feels weird to be this careless considering US medical costs

Flameshadowwolf wrote:

Things like this make me feel like I’m the crazy one. Almost no one around me wear masks anymore other than friends and family and even if you’re not scared of COVID there’s a crap ton of pollen in the air. I don’t know, it feels weird to be this careless considering US medical costs

Most everywhere dropped the mask mandates back in March or February. Medical experts like the CDC have also said its safe to not wear masks anymore so I suppose people are just going off that. If this convention isn't breaking any mandates in their state or city then I'm not sure how much room there is for legitimate complaints since they're not doing anything wrong. All the businesses in my city dropped the mandate as well earlier in the year.

See stats for april for ontario without a mask mandate (population : 14,9 million) :
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+cases+ontario

See stats for april for quebec with a mask mandate (population : 8,5 million) :
https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+cases+quebec

So maybe there are people who want mandates, but I still don't think that they should decide for other people, and even less when they ignore the numbers that said that masks mandates don't work as they think/wish.

The first day the mandate were finished, all people I know saw no more than 10 percent of people wearing mask. Not 70. Not 50. Not 20. 10 or less.. So I think that most people are against mask mandate, and wearing them all the time. The people who wear mask are a minority and should be allowed to wear them. But they should not decide for the majority. It's how democracy and rights works, for the better or the worst, depending how we see things.

If you’re worried about it or have risk factors I’d just wear a mask and be vaccinated yourself. The vaccination of other attendees is another matter and has no real meaningful value to you personally.

Dynamo- wrote:

If you’re worried about it or have risk factors I’d just wear a mask and be vaccinated yourself. The vaccination of other attendees is another matter and has no real meaningful value to you personally.

Wearing a mask doesn’t just protect you. It protects others. The only safe way to hold a con during Covid (and we are not post-Covid yet) is with all attendees masked, vaxxed and boosted.

I’m staffing Anime Boston. Everybody there has to show proof of vaccination and stay masked during their time at the con. As staff, I have to stay masked even when out and about in the hotel, which may not otherwise require it. I can take it off if I venture into the mall for some Wagamama but that’s it. And they got the venue staff to wear masks too. It’s not that hard. (Though I’m not privy to any discussions between NEAS and Hynes and speak only for myself here.)

I'm disappointed, but honestly not surprised. ACen has been going downhill for a while.

Just to repeat, the problem with what Acen did is flipping a key policy a few days before the con, and provides no refund for people who no longer can "safely" attend. Even if it's
purely psychological for the sake of the argument, people go to anime cons to have fun, and if this makes having fun hard, that's literally the convention working against its purpose.

Just to repeat, the problem with what Acen did is flipping a key policy a few days before the con, and provides no refund for people who no longer can "safely" attend. Even if it's
purely psychological for the sake of the argument, people go to anime cons to have fun, and if this makes having fun hard, that's literally the convention working against its purpose.

It doesn't matter at all if you agree or disagree with the policy. Nobody cares. But they can't be making this change on a Monday when the con begins Thursday, and have no recourse for folks affected. The people harmed are folks who can no longer attend Acen and probably can't get any compensation short of manually calling up their hotels and doing a credit card chargeback. Travel insurance won't cover this kind of thing. It's an incredibly scum move by Acen board/chair people.

Things like this make me feel like I’m the crazy one. Almost no one around me wear masks anymore other than friends and family and even if you’re not scared of COVID there’s a crap ton of pollen in the air.
I don’t know, it feels weird to be this careless considering US medical costs

It's not that I don't care. I care. It's just that in 100 years, I think the Covid will still be there. And if it's like the cold, it is possible than in the same year, you could catch a lot of different covid variants, alongside other viruses (cold, flu, etc.)

Saying your premier is idiot because he drop restriction is saying people agree for dropping restriction - like me - are idiots too. It's not because we don't agree we need to use insults. Sorry, but I don't want mandatory masks and other restrictions for the rest of the life of my kids... and thinking like that is not making me an idiot.

That said, when we see the numbers, we see that people in bad health because of bad habits (not eating well, not making enough exercices) have more problems and dies more when they have the covid. There are people who have good health and still have problems, but the numbers don't lie. So what I do is trying to take care of my health, the health of my kids and say to people I know to take care of their health. On the long run, I believe that catching viruses while being in top shape will protect more people.

So yes, I care. I just have a different way to fight this problem. I just think that the virus is so contagious that everybody will eventually catch it. So I take this virus seriously. I also think that he will have a lot of mutations (like in the 2 last years), will become a lot of variants that avoid vaccination and natural immunity and therefore, we will likely catch it multiple times in our life. I think we can't avoid the virus, it's too late: he will be there forever and he will change forever. So yeah, I changed my strategy with that new information I believe, and changed how to fight it (with my health) instead of avoid it.

So please, don't use "ìdiot" of "don't care" when you talk about people like me. I'm not an exercise guy and I love to eat a lot, so making all this effort is hard enough for me...