Friday, January 7th 2022
E3 2022 to Occur in Digital-Only Space Once Again as Omicron Surges
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced that the 2022 edition of the famous Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) show will once again occur in a digital venue. The decision has been justified due to the current Omicron infection waves sweeping across most of the world, and while recent studies place Omicron as a less severe variant, its extremely high infection rates should still give decision makers pause.
Interestingly, the ESA still hasn't confirmed the date in which this digital E3 is to take place - something the association always did at the close of each edition. Reports state that the decision to hold a digital-only event for 2022 might have been taken even before the current Omicron surge, and perhaps as early as last year. Should E3 2022 occur in an online format, this will be the second time this happens since the event's first edition back in 1995. In all these years, E3 has only ever been fully canceled in 2020, the year that COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.
Source:
GamesBeat
Interestingly, the ESA still hasn't confirmed the date in which this digital E3 is to take place - something the association always did at the close of each edition. Reports state that the decision to hold a digital-only event for 2022 might have been taken even before the current Omicron surge, and perhaps as early as last year. Should E3 2022 occur in an online format, this will be the second time this happens since the event's first edition back in 1995. In all these years, E3 has only ever been fully canceled in 2020, the year that COVID-19 was declared a pandemic.
14 Comments on E3 2022 to Occur in Digital-Only Space Once Again as Omicron Surges
If all people are going to do, is act like a bunch of cowards after going to so much trouble to get the jab, you have to ask, why bother?....why bother.
This takes time. Vaccination is still the only road out of this, but we are impatient and far too lenient on people who dont vaccinate.
So far the only meaningful & quantifiable progress is being made ever since people started vaccinating. But as long as we have open societies, until you have good vaccination rates everywhere, youre gonna be surprised over and over again. And if needed vaccines can be adapted to that. So yes. You will be boostering again... no doubt.
The only other option is saying 'yolo', but thats impossible to sell. Yet people are selling it, somehow, thinking it will amount to anything other than more chaos and more lockdowns. GL with that. Some people like seeing the world burn, I guess.
To be fair, Omicron is far less fatal, and the symptoms are minor, when compared to previous variants, but all the more reason for masks and vaccinations. It’d be nice to live with this variant rather than letting it spread and potentially mutate into something more serious.
How about no more lockdowns and let people be free, if they want to die of a easily preventable disease they can, the same way they can die of eating too much, smoking tobacco or pot, taking drugs that are now legal...
You seem authoritarian and its not a good look.
Consider that a warning moving forward.
Edit: with hindsight, posts about vaccines etc will be LQ'd to keep the thread lean.