After two years of Covid, live events are finally happening again

With the omicron wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror, people are ready to get out and attend live events again. That includes sporting events, concerts, conferences, and other activities.
In the U.S. at least, the public has been educated and has access to vaccines. Whether they choose to believe the experts and get vaxxed is up to them. The benefits and risks are well known at this point.
Government mandates and masking requirements have become politically unpopular after two years of the pandemic. People just want to get on with their lives unfettered by rules set by hypocritical politicians.
With serious illnesses and deaths from Covid limited to the unvaccinated, people are ready to treat the virus like they do the annual flu.
Live music venues near me, such as Capital One Arena, Jiffy Lube Live and the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, have a full slate of summer concerts planned.
Even music festival Coachella will be back after a two-year absence this April in Indio, California.
We’re likely to see an end to events being canceled or rescheduled because of the Covid pandemic.
The CES 2022 consumer electronics show went ahead with a live conference in Las Vegas in early January amid much hand-wringing about the omicron wave. But the show didn’t turn out to be the Covid superspreader event that many feared. (Attendees had to be vaxxed and masked.)
The Chicago Auto Show, the nation’s largest and longest-running auto show, opened Saturday Feb. 12 and will run through Monday Feb. 21.
Live conferences coming up include the SXSW conference, aka South by Southwest, in Austin, Texas, March 11-20. The last two in-person SXSW shows were canceled because of Covid.
Disney is holding its D23 Expo, called “the Ultimate Disney Fan Event,” in Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 9-11 after a two-year absence because of the pandemic.
Two awards shows delayed because of the omicron wave are coming up as well.
The Critics Choice Awards will be held March 13 after being pushed back from its original Jan. 9 date.
The Grammy Awards will be held on April 3 in Las Vegas after being postponed from the original Jan. 31 date in Los Angeles.

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