We were speaking of public places that will not admit you unless you have proof of vaccination or (maybe) proof of a recent negative test for you-know-what. I suddenly have a flurry of e-mails asking me if comic (and similar) conventions are requiring that or will require it…and how about that convention the San Diego Comic-Con people have announced for Thanksgiving Weekend. Here is my reply…
I don't know anything about any conventions. I would guess some are requiring such proofs or will. I would imagine a lot of advertised guests — especially the kind that people come to shake hands with or get a picture with — won't show if that isn't required. But on this as with so many other matters, my speculation is worth no more and perhaps no less than your speculation.
As for Comic-Con Special Edition, my answer (again) is I Don't Know. That's an absolutely correct answer to most questions you could ask me these days. Very little is known about that event other than it seems to still be planned for either November 26 and 27 or November 26-28 or maybe November 27 and 28, depending on which source you consult. I would imagine the convention planners are still having trouble determining things like how much of the convention center will be available to them, how many hotels and restaurants in the area will be open, what kind of transit problems they'll have, what labor problems they'll face doing it on that weekend, etc.
Sections of the convention center were modified to house homeless folks and various groups of stranded immigrants. How many of those modifications are being unmodified?
That said, it is worth noting that even as I post this, the San Diego Convention Center is hosting its first convention since March of 2020. Approximately 150 events of various sizes were canceled or postponed and now a lot of them are being rescheduled. Someone told me that's why Comic-Con got stuck with Thanksgiving Weekend — because of many other, smaller conventions that had claims on portions of the building for other dates.
Today is the last day there of a convention for SPIE Optics + Photonics, a society of engineers, scientists, and academics in the field of photonics, lasers, optics, cameras. I can't understand why they didn't ask me there to run a rousing game of Quick Draw!
According to this article, "…masks are required for all unvaccinated attendees at convention center events and recommended for those fully vaccinated. For mega-events with 5,000 people or more, attendees must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test." We don't yet know the expected size of the Comic-Con Special Edition but it will surely be many times that number. 5,000 is the average number of people at any comic convention who are dressed as Batman.
Those appear to be the convention center's rules, not the convention's. What will the rules be like there for the weekend after Thanksgiving? I'm going to fall back on my simple, always-accurate-about-stuff-I-don't-know-and-there's-a-lot-of-it answer: I Don't Know.