Ticketmaster Might Check Your Vaccine Status
Yesterday, it was widely reported that Ticketmaster is hatching a plan to make concertgoers prove COVID-19 vaccination or negative test results 72 hours before entry into shows. If the information is not provided, Ticketmaster will not release tickets, thus barring entry to shows. All of this data will be tracked by smartphone.
The shock and outcry from this news was pretty swift and now Ticketmaster is walking it back, at least a little. Company officials now say yesterday's news was misreported, but also admit they are investigating options to track vaccine status:
"It was widely misreported yesterday that Ticketmaster will be requiring vaccine status/test results for future events. This is not true. Ticketmaster does not have the power to set policies around safety/entry requirements, which would include vaccines and/or testing protocols. That is up to the discretion of the event organizer. We are indeed exploring these options, but it is still only a potential concept. And Ticketmaster will not be able to require such parameters — it would always be up to the event organizer."
The future of concerts will be interesting I suppose. Oh, Brave New World, that has such people in it.
Ticketmaster claims yesterday's report about vaccine and testing requirements was "widely misreported” in a new statement. https://t.co/EoDvarwtzh
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Ticketmaster will ask people to prove they’ve had Covid vaccine https://t.co/AvLcanvglr
— The Independent (@Independent) November 12, 2020