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struggle4progress

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Tue Jun 23, 2020, 04:33 PM Jun 2020

If venue is COVID-19 free, why must crowd promise not to sue?

EJ Montini, Arizona Republic Published 6:15 a.m. MT June 23, 2020

... Senior Pastor Luke Barnett and Chief Operations Officer Brendon Zastrow at Dream City Church in Phoenix, which is hosting the rally, said they’d added a new air-purification system to the building that kills 99.9% of the coronavirus.

... experts will tell you there is nothing such technology can do to protect you from an infected person if you get too close without a mask. If you don’t believe me, perhaps you’ll believe the nice lawyers representing the church.

They produced language that required all of those attending the event to sign a waiver promising not to sue ...

... one does not have to be an epidemiologist to know that squeezing thousands of individuals into an arena during a pandemic will transform it into a giant COVID-19 Petri dish ...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2020/06/23/trump-rally-crowd-must-promise-not-sue-phoenix-church-organizers/3240706001/

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