There’s plenty of reason to believe that a proper early detection process and potentially a vaccine can be found in order to help rein in the threat, which may put large-scale conventions back on the menu. Notably, H1N1 is still a threat, but it’s a contained threat. While the global medical community isn’t monolithic, it has historically succeeded in preventing any outbreaks from reaching the pandemic level of the 1918 Spanish flu, which was hugely deadly and catastrophic at the time. Detection and prevention efforts are ramping up worldwide as more governments are waking up to the threat and more eyes are getting on the case. So for attendees, it’s one thing to risk going to the show, but another entirely to risk going to the show while also not getting the key experiences, access, and connections that were largely your reason for going in the first place. Resorts, theme parks, tourist attractions, and sporting events are feeling the impact if they’re not being cancelled or closed outright.īroadly speaking, a lot of these events are being shut down not necessarily by the show organizers’ choice, but because local public health officials are advising it, and in a lot of cases key speakers, and panel members, and vendors are cancelling out their appearances at the show out of a fear of sending their people abroad.SXSW, the annual tech/film/arts/music festival that takes over central Texas, has cancelled the show scheduled to start this week.National Public Radio has a big list of BIG companies (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) who are taking measures to prevent the spread of the virus, including encouraging employees to work from home.TwitchCon Amsterdam, also scheduled for May, is also off.Google is cancelling its I/O conference in May, which is a huge tech showcase for them each year.The next James Bond film, No Time To Die, due to be released in April, has been pushed back til November.Emerald City Comic Con, a major comics show in Seattle, is delaying until summer.GDC, the professional games industry event that’s considered THE major show of the year for game developers, has been delayed just weeks before the dates.
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