Alarming change in Ticketmaster

I am going to a show tonight, and for some reason, my eyes landed on the Ticketmaster terms and conditions.

Essentially, it says it’s not their fault if you catch Covid.

It makes me wonder when this showed up and when it will go away.

Comments

[KC]

You can probably check via archive.org? Unless Ticketmaster has their T&C documents locked away from it, which would also not surprise me, this being Ticketmaster.

I doubt it'll go away unless there starts being Solid Case Law against liability for sloppy/inadequate disease protections by venues/etc. (of the "you knew this was putting your customers at significant risk but you neither warned them nor did anything to mitigate the risk" type) But who knows?

[theQueen]

KC - well, I really wonder how anyone would ever think there was a chance they could make a claim. "I did not breathe all day, then I came to this show, I breathed, and caught covid."

[KC]

"I have been living alone in my house and this was the only place with other humans I went to within this two-week period" is feasible, though, and potentially provable depending on what home camera and car camera products the person has. It's more likely for earlier in the pandemic, though.

I think the most likely thing is that they want to be not legally liable if someone gets ahold of some emails amongst themselves with estimates re: different precautionary measures (filtering air, reduced crowd sizes per cubic foot of air in a venue, requiring a mask), costs to themselves for each measure, and how much of an effect on their customers' health each of those measures would probably have (either according to publicly available data or according to a consultant).

[TheQueen]

KC - still though, at what point do we stop calling out Covid specifically? Was there anything like this with swine flu, the last epidemic?

[KC]

Swine flu didn't hit anywhere near as hard as covid, and covid is more likely to cause death and long-term disability, which are more often lawsuit fodder than "I was sick and didn't like it"?

But also sometimes legal caveats are just "a lawyer had an idea at some point" - but also I'd bet they've had internal discussions about risk mitigations vs. costs with covid, and don't want that to be used against them in court at any point.