Burning Ambulance
The latest edition of Damon Krukowski's newsletter, Dada Drummer Almanach, is well worth reading. Apparently a lot of people are buying tickets to shows and then not going. Personally, I haven't been to a show since February 2020. I'm not even tempted; I'm like the character in a horror movie who looks down a long tunnel or a staircase into darkness and just says, "Nope." It's a really weird feeling.
https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/strangers-on-a-train
Strangers on a Train

Dada Drummer Almanach
Nov 22, 2022 at 4:10pmWeb
Show threadNed Raggett (has moved!)Nov 22, 2022
@burningambulance About half the shows I've gotten tickets for in the last two years I've not gone to. All depends on the day and what things feel like in general now.
Show threadBurning AmbulanceNov 22, 2022
@nedraggett Ultimately, what it comes down to is, the risk is probably acceptably low for me, but very high for the immunocompromised (and therefore unvaccinated) person I live with. So that's that.
Show threadNed Raggett (has moved!)Nov 22, 2022
@burningambulance On that front, you are completely utterly correct in your approach.
Show threadBurning AmbulanceNov 22, 2022
@nedraggett I've had this discussion with other folks and they've said, in effect, "So you're just gonna be this careful *forever* [implied eyeroll emoji]?" And I say, "Yeah, because that's what 'till death do us part' means."
Show threadNed Raggett (has moved!)Nov 22, 2022
@burningambulance What? An actual formal commitment to somebody and the resultant due care and support that implies? What magic, etc.
Show threadCian O'ConnorNov 22, 2022

@burningambulance I went to a couple where people were wearing masks.

Then went to another where noone was - looked at the line and decided I didn't need to go that badly.

Show threadrottenhatNov 22, 2022
@burningambulance It's an interesting piece, all right. Gives a bit of background to Animal Collective's recent announcement that they were cancelling their European tour because they couldn't break even. At the time I assumed that costs were the problem, but it sounds like bands are getting squeezed at the revenue end too.
Show threadrottenhatNov 22, 2022

@burningambulance I'm probably unduly blasé about the risks, but I haven't given a second thought about going to any of the dozen gigs I've gone to this year, four days at Le Guess Who included, and I have tickets for two more next week.

That said, there was a point back in March where buying my own tickets started to seem pointless because every day I'd get another email from someone who'd gone down with Covid and had tickets to offer up for something.