2022 is almost upon us and I'm looking at three comic conventions in Southern California next year. This is assuming we are past the stage where comic conventions get canceled for medical reasons.
WonderCon is in Anaheim from April 1 through April 3. The San Diego Comic Fest is in you-know-where from April 21 to April 24. And Comic-Con International is in the same city from July 21 to 24 with a Preview Night on July 20.
WonderCon is a big convention that covers comics, animation, gaming, anime, TV, movies and a whole lotta things. The San Diego Comic Fest is a small (by comparison) and intimate gathering that focuses mostly on comics, especially older ones. And Comic-Con International is a huge mother of a blow-out about everything that's fun and imaginative. If you go to one of these events and don't have a great time, it may be because you picked the wrong size one.
Me, I'm hoping to be at all of them but I have made this policy that has (so far) served me well throughout The Pandemic. I don't assume I can predict how things will be in the future. I don't think anyone can and while I have a lot more faith in the Dr. Faucis of the world than I do in myself, I don't gamble my health on anyone's predictions. I especially don't listen to the vast number of Internet Experts who have never attended five minutes of Medical School but are sure they know all about viruses.
And yes, I felt this way even before the news that…
A man who flew from Minnesota to Manhattan to attend an anime convention last month at the Jacob K. Javits Center tested positive for the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, Minnesota Health Officials announced Thursday. The man, who was fully vaccinated, was in attendance at Anime NYC 2021, a convention of all things related to Japanese animation, from Nov. 19-21.
I also don't believe in drawing any conclusions or worries from a report like this. It's a reason for caution, not panic. A few weeks ago, none of us had heard the word "Omicron" and a lot of us still don't know how to pronounce it, let alone how dangerous it is. We know how dangerous it might be but that's not the same thing. I have some real good doctors in my orbit and I'm going to wait until they tell me where between caution and panic this one falls. And where the next one falls and the next one falls…