Chicago Marathon Requiring Vaccination Or Negative COVID Test

Really hoping mandatory vaccines and wearing masks at the start and finish areas will allow for mass events to take place.

There is no goal post. Some runners will get the vaccine so they can run but then the event will get cancelled anyway.

Can I get a religious exemption? I always pray before races.

On your Left wrote:

Just got an email saying they will be checking. Good, I don't want to run with unvaccinated idiots.

Have fun "running" your 4 hour marathon and then getting CoViD after.

It's proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test within 72 hours of the race. The unvaccinated can run.

You expect this will be applied across the board ? Nope. Elites who are unvaccinated will probably be given a pass. The rule is for back-of-the-pack peasants who have no business running a marathon in the first place.

Any sensible person knows what the real danger is in Chicago.

You must be the idiot if you think you can only get covid from unvaccinated individuals. Just easy to pass along between vax'd folks. If they were really concerned about spread vax card doesnt matter only a negative test before bib.

Proof of a complete COVID-19 vaccination series OR negative COVID-19 test result will be required to attend the Abbott Health & Fitness Expo. All attendees who are not fully vaccinated are required to provide a negative COVID-19 test result for a test administered within 72 hours of attending the Bank of America Chicago Marathon (Sunday, October 10). Individuals unable to prove full vaccination or a negative test will be barred from entering the Health & Fitness Expo and picking up the necessary race materials that allow participation in the event.

If they really wanted to cut down on the spread at their event, they'd cancel the expo completely and mail everyone their race bib. But nah, they're not ready to give up that $$$.

Forcing thousands of people traveling from all over the country (and world) to go out of their way in the day or two before the race (when many are already enduring last minute/stressful travel schedules) to pick up their race bib in person just so they can shove a bunch of advertisements down our throats has always been such a dumb policy. But not even COVID can get them to give it up lol.

You guys think it weird that even though OP didn’t say anything false, the mods were quick to chime in an edit the title and add a link for more pertinent info? Yet they kept that piece of trash troll thread about CDC not tracking delta untouched. Incredibly irresponsible.

VO2Max Burrito wrote:

Really hoping mandatory vaccines and wearing masks at the start and finish areas will allow for mass events to take place.

I really hope any combination of vaccine proof, masks (except when running), social distancing where possible, and negative tests keep all the events happening.

I do not necessarily want or think we need all of that, but it is preferable to not holding the events.

Jacket wearing Boston thoners will wear tubes suits and respirators as long as they can post on Instagram from the starting line.

You haven’t seen their covid cancellation policy. They basically keep all your money and let you run it virtual. It is in the organizers short-term financial interest to cancel the marathon. Your whole post is false.

I like how you made sure to add the "short-term" caveat in there like the long-term financial health of the race doesn't factor into their considerations. It is absolutely not in their long-term financial interest to cancel the event. And also consider the reason they keep your entry fee is that (supposedly) most of that money has already been spent before race day. You have no idea what you're talking about.

At this point they only refunding runners 10% if they defer and 5% back if they cancel when they do cancel which is a measly 20$. I’m thinking of canceling because I don’t want to beat up my body for another race they will cancel a month out. You can cancel by October 6th and still have option to defer to next year when you pay full race fee haha. You are right they make more canceling event as org than running it. A Producers scam

Most of the cost of the event is probably the police, public service, and EMS salaries on race day. If no event they probably don’t pay out this money so there is some financial incentive for race org to cancel

Disko Eric wrote:

You guys think it weird that even though OP didn’t say anything false, the mods were quick to chime in an edit the title and add a link for more pertinent info? Yet they kept that piece of trash troll thread about CDC not tracking delta untouched. Incredibly irresponsible.

I added the editor's note to the first post. I don't do much moderation, but I do update the homepage. I wanted to use this thread on the homepage as it was newsworthy, so I checked for an article on it. I can't stand when people post news without linking to the source they're talking about. "So-and-so said this on instagram." Okay great, how about a link? I did the same thing today for the thread on Sifan Hassan's WR attempt:

It's something we do all the time for lots of threads if we're using them on the homepage, especially race results. This thread wasn't some rare exception. Also, the OP's post wasn't accurate because they made it sound like you had to be vaccinated to race Chicago, where in reality a negative COVID test is also an option.

As far whatever CDC thread you're talking about, I know nothing of it. If it is something you think needs to be deleted, then report it and a moderator (most likely not me) will review it. I did a CTRL+F on the first three pages of the message board and don't see a thread with that title.

It was buried quick by all the other covid troll threads. But it's still less than a day since it's been commented on.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10787416

I don't care one way or another, but I don't understand this.

For the past two weeks I'm finally getting my head around the fact that despite being vaccinated, you can still get infected with Covid AND give it to other people. So why is this "either vax or neg test"?

Being vaccinated is completely unrelated to whether you are infected or not. Why don't vaccinated people also need to be tested? This is not a rhetorical question. I really don't get the logic. If anyone has any insight, I'd appreciate a little help.