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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8401217" data-attributes="member: 4534">I can appreciate the bind they're in.  I've planned events on an order of magnitude that were infinitesimal when compared to Gen Con, and even my rinky dink events required me to plan ahead (up to a year) and would have resulted in some financial penalties if I cancelled.  But while I can appreciate the bind they're in, I'm not sure if that abrogates their responsibility for hosting such an event in the midst of a pandemic.  COVID cases are surging in South Dakota after the Sturgis motorcycle rally which ended in August 2021 (though that's can't be all traced back to the rally), and like many areas of the country, hospitals are overwhelmed and ICU beds are scarce.  I don't know if economic feasibility really lets them off the hook here.  Gen-Con attracts an audience from around the United States, and probably a decent number of international travelers, and it just seems like gathering thousands of people into a small space and then sending them all home afterward is a recipe for a super spreader event.  Maybe nothing will come of it but I can't help but think of the scene in Aliens where Burke explains that he sent the colonist to the coordinates where Ripley said the derelict craft was: Burke:  Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist, huh? Did you ever think about that? I didn't know! So now, if I went in and made a major security issue out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there are no exclusive rights for anybody; nobody wins. So I made a decision and it was... wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call.Ripley:  Bad call?  These people are dead, Burke! Don't you have any idea what you have done here?</blockquote>

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