After over a year of cancellations and shifts to online-only events, we're slowly getting to the point when in-person game expos will resume. One that's not far away is PAX West, which is being held in Seattle from 3rd to 6th September.
Tickets are already available for purchase on the official website, and PAX has issued an update on its health and safety measures. It's confirmed that attendees will be required to present proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test result, along with government issued ID; in addition face coverings will be mandatory.
Prior to entry we will now require proof of a completed COVID-19 vaccination series or a negative COVID-19 PCR or antigen test, each to be verified with a valid, government issued ID. If you have purchased badges and have questions or concerns about this requirement, please reach out to PAX Questions at [email protected].
When PAX West 2021 badges were announced, the PAX Team made the decision to communicate what we could commit to at that time, rather than what we were working toward. While we let the community know the health and safety guidelines could evolve, we wanted to get it right and we feel confident that verification of fully vaccination or negative test, along with continued face covering requirements for everyone, will create an environment that promotes the wellbeing of our PAX community.
The PAX team is steadfast in our commitment to health and safety, including reduced capacity and mandatory face coverings to be worn at all times by attendees, exhibitors, staff, and Enforcers. We will continue to evaluate our policies, listen to feedback from the community, follow the guidance of public health officials, and do everything in our power to make PAX West as safe as possible. We will always do what we can to support the global gaming community and the cities PAX calls home.
In the coming weeks and months we'll see how other in-person events approach these challenges, as plans and locations start to open up.
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Right. Only those who have been penetrated either nasally or intramuscular will be allowed entry.
Safety 1st I guess. But there will always be complainers no matter what anyways.
Makes sense really, at the end of the day the only people who will truly fight against this are the people who aren't thinking of everyone's general wellbeing as apposed to just their own. For the foreseeable this needs to be the norm in order to try and stop variants mutating as well as vulnerable people getting hurt. One day it'll ease I'm sure.
Seeing as those who have been jabbed can still contract and pass on the virus, why aren't they required to produce a negative test result as well?
@Bentendo1609 that's quite the black and white simplificiation. Protesting against the trading of liberty for a sense of safety is not something exclusive to the 'enemies of science or vulnerable people' or whatever you're implying there.
Remember when people said vax passports and digital ID's were 'conspiracy theories' and tin foil hatter theories. lol. Of course this was the end game all along. The whole thing is garbage.
@Clarice "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
@Clarice : To echo your sentiment, I have been effectively coerced into behaving in a less hygienic fashion since these impositions upon our liberties came into effect, which is especially troubling as I am particularly fastidious in that respect.
And I would never, ever forfeit my liberties for a false sense of security, especially at the hands of people who lack the integrity of character to preside over their own household, let alone nations.
Winners don't use drugs, put they can get into PAX.
having a convention when Covid cases are rapidly increasing in America or anywhere for thar matter is utterly stupid, even with planning vaccine passports or whatever the new variants can easily avoid the vaccines and end you up in hospital
@KBuckley27 read above though…. The noisy and uneducated will just shout about their civil liberties…. Unfortunately millions will die because people don’t understand what is going on…. If the education system worked we would not need to impose rules as people would want to protect themselves, their families and others but it’s clear people want to stamp their feet and do whatever they have always done no matter the cost…
I agree with you by the way.
@Stocksy educated? How is it that i am educated to PhD level from one of the top 10 Universities in the world, with peer reviewed publications in top journals in my field, and i don't buy into any of these narratives that are saturated top to bottom with inconsistencies and outright brazen lies? I spend my life around heavily 'educated' people and you would be surprised how unintelligent they are (especially in the political/social field). Discrediting those who don't buy into MSM garbage narratives as 'uneducated' is a big mistake, given that actually, they are mostly in the right on these issues. Lest we forget the wisdom of the Great G.K.Chesterton when he astutely stated:
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
Why would anyone go to this event, especially knowing you will be forced to subjugate to ridiculously over the top rules to do so? Just put it out of its misery.
@Bentendo1609 nah
@Stocksy : The state and federal "health ministers" on my neck of the woods are mostly comprised of career politicians with no medical or healthcare qualifications or experience whatsoever, and pocket from the taxpayer for roles which they are unfit to fulfill, but sure, lump us in with the "uneducated" crowd because some of us dare to question the judgement of those who subjugate us while repeatedly acting in contrary to actual research and evidence, much of which is not disclosed by the media, and certainly not with the proportionate degree of hysterical hyperbole as that which is.
A year ago, we were told by doctors that masks were useless for the most part (even pharmacies continue to sell "fashion" masks). This year, politicians speak of them as if they are magical disease-immune force fields (but somehow, the "fully vaccinated" are still required to wear them in most situations).
Perfectly healthy people and the unwell alike are urged to congregate at overcrowded testing facilities (none of which, inexplicably, have been cited as being "superspreading" venues) rather than isolating sick people in their homes to mend or otherwise seek medical attention for more serious ailments.
I can respect one's position should they wish to be inoculated with concoctions that are still in their trial phases, and the likes of which have never before been administered on humans, but I hold the position that medical intervention should be the last resort, not the default, and especially more so now than ever as we do not know of the long-term effects of the jabs, but again, if the elderly/immuno-compromised think that is the best course of action for their wellbeing and prosperity, then so be it. I haven't taken any form of medication since my teens and despite falling ill on occasion (albeit very rarely), my natural defenses have served me well, and I am not willing to jeopardise that as I have aging loved ones that may come to rely upon me one day.
I have had the decency not to resort to baseless pejoratives in respect to your position, but it seems that an open mind is too much to ask for these days.
Removed - unconstructive
@Silly_G hear hear
Okay, let's leave it there. This is a informative news story about the fact restrictions are being put in place by the event organiser.
We don't need to debate the merits of those restrictions here yet again as they've been done time and time before elsewhere.
If you want to visit PAX West but don't agree with the restrictions we suggest you contact the organisers to discuss further.
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