Essen SPIEL are doing a better job than UK Games Expo did, but I've
very reluctantly decided that I'm not going anyway.
It's masks all through, and proof of vaccination or a recent test
(though they're accepting antigen tests, which isn't great). So that's
not bad. But it's a lot of work:
- special expensive test to get into France (though in-EU land borders
should be OK);
- possibly another special expensive test to get into the show if the
UK doesn't get its finger out and arrange vaccination certificate
reciprocity (it hasn't even asked the EU to start this process yet);
- and another test to get back into the UK.
And whatever happens with that, probably still 100K+ people on site,
many of them not local… and I'm guessing they won't close the food
vendors, or completely ban eating and drinking in indoor spaces, so
some people will have to be unmasked at least some of the time…
And then, well, the chance of my bringing back something dodgy may be
quite low, but it's not practicable for me not to expose my wife to
anything I have brought, and I really don't want to do that. I was
fully vaccinated back in June, but it's still a vastly higher risk
than staying at home and maybe having a few friends over would be.
In the end, it's a risk (and an expense) purely for my fun, and I'm
old-fashioned enough to rate my fun as a lower priority than many
other things.
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