Vaccinations will be offered at Garth Brooks' Kansas City concert
Last edited Wed Jul 28, 2021, 08:38 AM - Edit history (2)
Source: KCTV
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMOV.com) -- Country music fans will get the chance to get the COVID-19 vaccine during his upcoming concert on August 7.
Arrowhead Stadium. the home of the Kansas City Chiefs, will once again become a mass vaccination site.
More than 70,000 fans are expected to be at the sold-out show. A spokesperson said masks will not be required.
Read more: https://www.kctv5.com/coronavirus/vaccine_tracker/vaccinations-will-be-offered-at-garth-brooks-kansas-city-concert/article_ad426288-acab-5477-917a-1bd7e2ef4a90.html
KCMO is probably putting back the indoor mask mandate and they're still having this concert that will be bringing in the unvaxxed masses from the Ozarks?
JohnSJ
(92,061 posts)damage from the mass event IF they masking up, (doubtful), and trying to maintain social distances, (also doubtful)
risk verses reward
I don't know the answer
LisaL
(44,972 posts)So I don't see how it outweighs them attending an event with thousands of other people.
JohnSJ
(92,061 posts)offered or not at those events
Of course there would be a window of opportunity for the infection, but not everyone will get infected who attends, and it is for those people where there would be benefit
LisaL
(44,972 posts)What pandemic?
pstokely
(10,522 posts)at Your Name Here Field at Arrowhead
LisaL
(44,972 posts)NT
maxsolomon
(33,244 posts)Risks of outdoor transmission are likely less than 0.1%. Virtually all transmission is indoor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covid-transmission-cdc-number.html
LisaL
(44,972 posts)"While the outdoors is generally less risky for coronavirus transmission because of circulating air, Yonatan Grad, an associate professor at the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said to stay aware of your exposure to other people, noting that an outdoor music festival in the Netherlands in early July has since been linked to nearly 1,000 new infections."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/17/delta-cases-rising/
Rebl2
(13,462 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Aristus
(66,286 posts)I know he's personal friends with Bill and Hill. And he's never, to the best of my knowledge, written the kind of glorification of redneck fascism that Toby Keith has.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Vaccininations undermine trumpers, as do fox people who acknowledge Jan 6 truths.
Aristus
(66,286 posts)They won't get it because an immunologist encouraged them to, but they'll get it from a guy with a cowboy hat and a twang.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)the no vax trumpers.
progree
(10,890 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 28, 2021, 09:40 AM - Edit history (3)
After #1 Lousiana, #2 Florida, #3 Arkansas, #4 Mississipi.
#5 Missouri, #6 Alabama, #7 Oklahoma, #8 Nevada, #9 Alaska, #10 Texas, #11 Kansas, #12 Georgia, #13 S. Carolina
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
Louisiana is going crazy with a 79 per 100,000 average daily new infection rate, and that number has risen 307% in the last 14 days [1]
Missouri's rise in the last 14 days [1] is 59%
[1] actually the average of the 7 days ending 7/27 compared to the average of the 7 days ending 7/13
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Remember that those types of events were planned awhile ago and were probably done based on "CDC guidance" at the time, which was basically -
"Ditch the mask if you're fully vaccinated and if you're not vaccinated, well... please please pretty please wear a mask because we can't prove if you are vaccinated or not and well... besides, you should be okay if you are 'outside'".
With the hockey and basketball seasons done for now, the indoor arenas are not really being used that much (other than for concerts or special events, which would be a big concern now). But Delta is going to cause some issues with how to handle indoor arena events going forward.
The Garth Brooks concert in that stadium is outdoors, but it remains to be seen what might happen. I wouldn't be surprised if they do nonsensical "temperature checks" at the door as if that will indicate anything.
twodogsbarking
(9,674 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)but it's doubtful that MO would cancel anything.
LisaL
(44,972 posts)Where are they going to put all these people?
twodogsbarking
(9,674 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)where these will need to be brought back out again-
They will need to do like we did here (also done in a number of places including NYC) a year ago - "surge facilities" -
Sgent
(5,857 posts)so much better than an indoor concert. That said its still questionable.
LisaL
(44,972 posts)Much higher viral load. Especially with no social distancing.
Bengus81
(6,928 posts)But...they thought all these idiots were going to get the shot months ago and all would be good for September. They didn't realize how Trump and the Republican party has turned their base into a death cult.
pstokely
(10,522 posts)even the Jets
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)moreland01
(736 posts)but perhaps not for the reason you think
twodogsbarking
(9,674 posts)Just wonderin'
Bengus81
(6,928 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,674 posts)tanyev
(42,516 posts)BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)Bengus81
(6,928 posts)aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,674 posts)I see.
Initech
(100,038 posts)They'll stick with that white trash country hip hop or Ted Nugent and Lee Greenwood.So I think we're safe there.
But I do hope this will convert some run of the mill anti-vaxxers who got swayed by bad advice on Facebook or elsewhere.