Las Vegas Review-Journal: World of Concrete, a construction show specializing in masonry materials and services, and the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show, the largest firearms and ammunition event of its kind, both begin Tuesday in Las Vegas.
They come a little more than two weeks after CES, which drew only a quarter of the anticipated attendees and has event organizers wondering how the rest of the year’s convention calendar will unfold.
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Covid has provided us with such fascinating little experiments of people being pushed to the limit of their empathy and what they do when they run out. Of course there are different factors like misinformation and political leaning, but it's just mind boggling to watch people disregard the current happenings. Like…if you hear something that will make everyone around you safer you would do, right? I like to think that that is the correct human response, but for the last two years I’ve consistently seen people just make the choice to not do that and it seriously confounds me. Like why can’t people just do whats best for everyone. It makes me worry about human nature, however there are many more people doing what is right, they just do it silently. This is what I must remember, when news like this sort of deflates me. I hope they wore masks!
This was a very conflicting article for me to read. I found it interesting that they would host a convention with 45,000 people, maybe more, during a pandemic while a new variant is raging. I appreciated the section where they discussed their safety precautions, and I do applaud them in the measures they are taking in order to keep this convention going. However, I would personally not go to this nor encourage it. Even through their precautions, this event is simply too big and I doubt that it will be fully outdoors. The article also mentions that this convention shows that Vegas is able to handle large gatherings responsibly, but I completely disagree. This is a convention, where as most people go to Vegas for more recreational purposes. There is no way people who are going to Vegas to gamble and get drunk would be responsible, even with rules and enforcements. I suppose this is natural selection at its finest.
I’m just… not sure about this. Hundreds of thousands of people flocking to Las Vegas for conventions? I can understand the industries wanting to continue their business and work on coming back from the pandemic. But, we aren’t done with this pandemic yet, like it or not. To their credit, different conventions have different restrictions, but at the very least masks are required for all of them. I wish they required vaccines for all of them too, but I appreciate they are doing something. I think because I come from a perspective of having dealt with more than my fair share of COVID anxiety, the idea of attending any type of in-person convention right now seems daunting, and just something I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Hopefully, when these conventions happen in a few months, we will be in a better place (with no new variants). In either case, I wish them the best of luck for their conventions and hope they go smoothly for everyone.
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