Probably no masks, but only if you have proof of a vaccine is my guess (no inside info on this - it's simply what I expect many/most venues to do - same for travel and the workplace), so you might be shut out.
So, you won't be attending any games, eh ?
Your choice. Sad that you won't do what's for the common good.
Sport teams aren't going through that nonsense. You go at your own risk. By them taking on a role to check those coming in they are accepting a responsibility that they shouldn't get involved with. Opens up more liability not reduces it.
It's the other way around, IMO - for them, insisting on proof of a vaccination checks their liability box, whereas just letting anyone in and then them getting infected and dying, which is far more likely for people without vaccines (i.e. 100-10,000 times more likely to die from COVID than if one got a vaccine), is a huge liability.
You simply state you come at your own risk. Period. By asking for proof you are saying saying we are protecting everyone. What happens if someone fakes his proof or sneaks in and people get sick. Lawsuit.
I agree that some reports of variants have been overly dramatic. However, antigenic drift, via viral evolution, is a real threat to the efficacy of the vaccines we have. Right now, the major vaccines still appear to be effective against these variants, which is great, but the rate and type of evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is difficult to predict, and it's an absolute truism in genetic mutation probability theory that the more transmissions we have, the more chances we have of a virus evolving which evades our vaccines. That's not "fear porn" - it's simple science, which I hope you would understand.
We disagree. Huge precedent in our society for requiring vaccines for different things, so I think we'll see that for COVID. We'll see what direction it goes, though, as I could be wrong.
My only question about a vaccine "passport" or proof is will it be something more sophisticated than the basic card you get when getting the shots? I mean I've heard talk about some of the big tech companies creating electronic vaccine passports. But you might run into some issues with that too.
How could someone prove they caught covid at a game that didn't have a vaxx passport requirement?
Simply you let the government make the rules. Private business should do no more or no less than required. To try and give a sense that you are providing extra protection is opening up a can of worms. Stay behind the government rules never get out of head of them.
People sue for all kinds of things that are difficult to prove. Most lawsuits like this are to recover $$ not to be "right" about something and I think many will think this limits liability.
Vaccines are absolutely documented in a State database. What is done with that will be a huge societal question starting over the next few months. This article explains a lot of the basics around the idea and what types of activities could require proof of vaccination. I'm not saying it's 100% coming, but there's an awful lot of discussion about it and work going on to allow it to happen.
I'm pretty sure nobody has won $1 suing a business that has been following the Goverment rules. It's a pandemic. It one of those things that you really can't sue for.
Flawed logic. Vaccine Passports likely wouldn't be invoked until we've reached a stage where anyone who wants a vaccine can get one (guessing May/June), so they would not affect vaccination priorities. Vaccine passports are more about limiting liability and promoting vaccination for all, as a common good for society.
Nope. Those of us who get vaccinated will no longer have any fears of being out and about - other than the fear in the back of our minds that the Luddites, like you, who won't get vaccinated, will be the engine that drives evolution of variants that can eventually escape the vaccines.
There are some who have felt this way all along.
Anyone who wants a vaccine can have one by the end of May. Why wouldn’t the stadiums be at 100%.
Ignorant people maybe or perhaps people under 18 with very low risks from COVID - everyone else should have been concerned...
