National may be in peril

[Republicaninmass]

So is the national in peril?

Asking for a friend

[carlsonjok]

Food for thought for the scientifically literate:

Mask Mandates, On-Premises Dining, and COVID-19

Evidence for transmission of COVID-19 prior to symptom onset

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission From People Without COVID-19 Symptoms

[Gmrson]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

So is the national in peril?

Asking for a friend

I feel if it were in peril we would see it tied to a train track with a pencil thin mustached fellow beckoning an oncoming train whilst twisting said mustache.


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[polakoff]

I'll be setting up at the National if they have it in July. Just like I've done for the local card shows here, I'll be wearing a mask. I wore a double mask at my first post-covid show in April despite having been fully vaccinated for more than 5 weeks, but switched to a single mask this past weekend. The double mask proved extremely difficult and counterproductive over an 8 hour show. As I talked the surgical mask would move down and the cloth mask up. This resulted in my constantly fiddling with my masks and even needing to briefly remove them to fix them. Since my masks are intended to prevent me from asymptomatically transmitting to someone who is not vaccinated, I felt comfortable that the single mask would be fine this time (as vaccinated transmittal rate is so low, and transmittal rate with a surgical mask is so low, so the compounding factors mean wearing even a single mask gives a really really low chance of that happening).

I will not harass customers at my table who don't wear a mask and I won't take kindly to people at the National who harass me about wearing mine.

Thanks to all in this thread who have some science literacy, it makes this former teacher happy.

[Rich Klein]

Looks like we have a better shot at the NSCC in July than we did a couple of hours ago. I also stress not a guarantee but a much better shot than we had earlier this week

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...atNSQN234u_r8Y

Regards
Rich

[Tony Gordon]

Rich, you beat me to it, I was just going to post that. If you remember, the 1993 National was held at McCormick Place.

[vintagewhitesox]

Originally Posted by Tony Gordon

Rich, you beat me to it, I was just going to post that. If you remember, the 1993 National was held at McCormick Place.

Tony, Im about 20 minutes away from Rosemont, just saw this new. great to hear. hopefully we can have a national. if we have to wear masks, no biggie. just happy to have a card show!