Lollapalooza To Require Vaccination Card Or Negative Test To Attend The Festival

[babylonsister]

Good luck with this.


Lollapalooza To Require Vaccination Card Or Negative Test To Attend The Festival
July 28, 20216:26 PM ET
The Associated Press


CHICAGO — The hordes of people expected to descend on Chicago's Grant Park for the Lollapalooza music festival this week will be required to show proof that they've been vaccinated for COVID-19 or tested negative for the disease within the last three days.

The four-day festival starts Thursday and is expected to be back at full capacity, with roughly 100,000 daily attendees. After missing last summer because of the threat of the coronavirus, it will easily be Chicago's largest gathering since the pandemic started, and one of the country's.

This year's festival will look very different than in the past. To gain entry, attendees will have to present their vaccination cards or a printed copy of a negative COVID-19 test that is no more than 72 hours old. That means that anyone with a four-day pass who isn't vaccinated will have to get tested twice. Furthermore, anyone who isn't vaccinated will have to wear a mask.

Public health officials and others have raised concerns that such a large gathering, even outdoors, risks turning into a super-spreader event. Officials in the Netherlands were shocked after a much smaller music festival attended by 20,000 people over two days early this month led to nearly 1,000 cases of COVID-19, CNBC reported. That festival had similar safeguards to Lollapalooza's.

Despite the recent spike in cases caused by the highly contagious delta variant, Dr. Allison Arwady, the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, said this week that she feels comfortable with Lollapalooza going ahead as planned because of the precautions organizers are taking, saying they have gone "above and beyond." In addition to the entry requirements, organizers have looked at air ventilation for any indoor spaces, made sure backstage workers are vaccinated, will make masks available and will test ticket-takers.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/1021946563/lollapalooza-to-require-vaccination-card-or-negative-test-to-attend-the-festival

[dalton99a]

1. What a joke

All it takes is a computer and a printer

[Jim G.]

2. If You Have To Wear A Mask...

[EYESORE 9001]

4. A grass mask

Haven’t seen one of those in many MANY years.

[TexasTowelie]

6. I haven't used one in about 20 years.

I rely on either a small bong or a small glass pipe these days.

[Initech]

3. Don't let the unvaccinated in. Period.

The Foo Fighters didn't allow anyone who wasn't vaccinated in their shows and guess what? No cases. Letting people in with only a negative test is reckless and stupid!

Get vaxxed or go home!

[mucifer]

5. Mayor Lightfoot wants the money from the event. I don't have a good feeling about this...

[snowybirdie]

7. Worried about

this festival. Three grandchildren are attending. All vaxed, thank goodness.

[Phoenix61]

8. This is going to turn out every bit as well as Sturgis. nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Two of the triplets are attending.

They're vaxxed.