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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:33 PM Feb 2022

Coachella won't require masks, negative COVID tests or vaccinations

Organizers for the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the 2022 Stagecoach Festival will no longer require negative COVID-19 tests or proof of vaccination from attendees. Both festivals are slated to return this year for the first time since 2019, after being cancelled for two years due to the pandemic.

Stagecoach tweeted Tuesday that its rules have changed "in accordance with local guidelines." None of Coachella's social media accounts announced a change, but the rules on Coachella's Health and Safety page state that no masks, tests or vaccinations will be required at the festival.

Websites for both festivals also note that "there is an inherent and elevated risk of exposure to COVID-19 in any public place or place where people are present and there is no guarantee, express or implied, that those attending the festival will not be exposed to COVID-19."

However, the websites say the festivals "shall be presented in accordance with applicable public health conditions as of the date of the event and which may change at any time as determined by federal, state or local government agencies or instrumentalities, artists or the promoter."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coachella-wont-require-masks-negative-covid-tests-or-vaccinations/ar-AATTSz9

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Coachella won't require masks, negative COVID tests or vaccinations (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
Good Luck.. sounds like a good Cha Feb 2022 #1
snark on Thanks, Coachella, for helping make sure this covid never ends! snark off abqtommy Feb 2022 #2
LOOKS LIKE I'M GOING Eko Feb 2022 #3
That plus Kanye's a headliner this year. Hell to the N-O. Initech Feb 2022 #5
Take a souvenir home with you pandr32 Feb 2022 #4
To be fair, it is an outdoor event. Initech Feb 2022 #6
Have you seen how hippywife Feb 2022 #7
These make me chuckle, I won't be seen in a movie theater ever again, let alone.... Brainfodder Feb 2022 #8

Initech

(99,914 posts)
5. That plus Kanye's a headliner this year. Hell to the N-O.
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:57 PM
Feb 2022

And I'm a music fan and some of my favorite bands like King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will be there too. But this pretty much seals that I will not go this year.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
6. To be fair, it is an outdoor event.
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 08:58 PM
Feb 2022

And your odds of spreading it outdoors are slim to nil. But going to bars and parties on the other hand, that could be a different story.

hippywife

(22,767 posts)
7. Have you seen how
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 09:59 PM
Feb 2022

tightly packed the attendees always are at the performance venues? Being outdoors isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference.

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