While everyone is optimistic for CES 2022 when it comes to operators and organizers, the businesses and press that gathered at the event are not. Ómicron is already stalking the United States and the variant is so contagious that Biden has taken a series of extraordinary measures. Is the advance of the CES 2022 closing by Ómicron?
Joe Biden, President-elect of the United States is currently working to stop this variant throughout the country and for this, he launched a series of measures two days ago which could be summarized as follows:
- 500 million tests for home use.
- Support to hospitals with medical staff with 1000 military personnel and nurses or paramedics.
- Larger vaccination spaces.
In addition, the president sent a message of peace to the citizens:
We should all be worried about Omicron, but don’t panic. If you are fully vaccinated you are very protected.
The problem is that, oddly enough, despite arriving later than Europe, the Omicron variant already represents a 73% country cases. And what does all of this have to do with hardware? Well, given the situation depicted on these lines, companies have had a panic attack and that implies that the biggest event in the world, CES 2022, could be canceled by Ómicron.
Is it bad enough to cancel it?
Businesses are protectionist, like the press, so seeing the impact in just a week and with the latest forecasts for increased infections, many have already started removing their stands after almost a month of construction in Las Vegas, others already have they gone right away. Companies of what caliber? Well the list isn’t exactly short and as the hours go by it grows so it’s hard to give a specific number or list but for now we know it is. acts of these:
- NVIDIA
- T Mobile
- Amazon
- Meta
- The edge
- Engaged
- Intelligence
- AT&T
- TIC Tac
- Lenovo
- Alphabet (Google)
- Waymo
If a company does not want something, it is because its professionals are infected with a virus which in the worst case could end their life, and with it a bad advertising campaign which could have had the slogan: Is- what could have been done better?
What will happen now?
Basically there is a change of plans that could ruin months’ work for the less far-sighted. And is that everything seemed very optimal to kick off this live event as it always has been, but a lot of them are working against the clock right now as the presentations now need to be taped.
Others, on the other hand, could stay live at the established times (as long as they respect what was signed with the CES), or directly break them and move the announced presentation dates to other days with the protection of the time needed to work better in this situation.
We might be faced with a very special case of shifting release dates and even delays. Who will respect the dates given as active and passive? Who will move them and when? Everything is in the air and could explode, we will be attentive, because there are products and technologies that must be unveiled to meet delivery deadlines, such as Rembrandt, RTX 3090 Ti or the Intel ARC Alchemist for example.