Making people visit a health booth (which is relatively small from what I remember) to get card checked upon entry and assigning stickers or something is going to major hassle that upsets both those happy to verify vaccine and those complaining.

And it is an imperfect solution for many other reasons.

It is not a feasible solution.

The "health booth" mentioned would not be the place we are checking vaccination status at. It is indeed too small and is the Special Services kiosk and does not serve that purpose.

Mike

Previously there was a whole thread about cooking and storing food in your hotel room for the duration of Gencon that was quite interesting. 

What has been planned and when it is announced are two different things. Regardless of how it may seem.

Mike

Badges can be ‘shared’ a bit too easily. I’d imagine it will be something identifiable like a tyvek wrist band, the kind you get at a music festival that is waterproof and affixed by a bouncer to be too tight to slip of your wrist intact. I’d imagine they could have a few dozen outdoor checking areas where the Gencon team members can review proof of vaccination and affix the band. 

then they just need people ‘showing their band’ upon entering the ICC or other Gencon spaces. 

As for getting around the "sharing" of badges, would getting an attendee's photo included on their badge be cost-prohibitive? Or just plain not viable?

I don't think it is worth the effort of going through extraordinary and inconvenient efforts to try to prevent cheating on vaccination status.  A simple sticker on the badge would suffice.

You can't hermitically seal the convention.  There will be delivery people and ICC employees who are not vaccinated.  There are probably a few million people walking around with fake vaccination cards, some of whom will attend Gen Con and thwart any measures they take,

At some point you need to trust your own vaccination status to protect you.

how exactly are they going to enforce people to wear a mask outside the vending and gaming rooms? If regular people don't have to follow who to say I not a regular person until i want to go into those rooms?

Any masking or vaccine requirement is Lysenkoism.  Gencon has become highly political, and these mandates are just more of the same.  

There is one thing to remember during all of the discussions about GenCon, whether it's masking, politics, pricing or even companies that can NEVER get their events in on time (I'm looking at you, Pastime games.).

GenCon first and foremost is a business. They have to take everything into account. They can't make everyone happy no matter what they do. They can get sued over the stupidest things because this is America. Here's my list of what they HAVE to do:

1. Follow the law. Obvious as we all need to do that. 
2. Make money. I'm sorry that this second but without money, there is no GenCon.
3. Take care of the staff. No staff, no GenCon. Equally important with:
4. Take care of the customers. No customers, no GenCon.

While I probably forgot something important (comment away), everything else is an option to make GenCon more enjoyable including safe spaces, quiet rooms, rainbow support, air conditioning, Indianapolis over Chicago... See rules 4, 3 and 2 above in that order.

Continue and enjoy the debate but please have some empathy for GenCon and see these discussions from the business point of view as well as your own. And if need be, you still have plenty of time to shop for a comfortable mask.

Is there a definite reason the ICC can’t be ‘con only’?  It’s a public space but can exceptions be made?