Following Jazz Fest Cancellation, More COVID Measures Could Be on the Way for New Orleans

[MisterNiceKitty]

https://nola.eater.com/2021/8/11/22619067/jazz-fest-cancellation-more-covid-measures-new-orleans

With Jazz Fest called off and additional restrictions looming in New Orleans, the fate of remaining fall festivals and events is up in the air


"For the second year in a row, organizers behind the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival have canceled the world-renowned music, food, and cultural event at the Fairgrounds, citing the “exponential growth of new COVID cases in New Orleans and the region.” Jazz Fest announced that the festival would no longer take place this October as scheduled on Sunday, August 8, about a week after tickets for the Rolling Stones’s October 13 performance went on sale.

Though Jazz Fest organizers made the decision to cancel the festival independently, as event producers and city officials both noted, the major move comes less than a month after New Orleans officials sounded the alarm regarding fall festivals amid a concerning uptick in COVID-19 cases in July, locally and statewide. On Monday, organizers canceled Red Dress Run, an annual charity run and day-drinking party in the French Quarter scheduled for this weekend, and last week, the downtown block party that accompanies White Linen Night was called off days before it was set to take place."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And I just don't understand why NYC is going to go through its "Welcome Home" concert

in Central Park. I know it's outdoors. I know a majority of the concert attendees will have been vaccinated.

But the Delta Variant has changed the landscape.

I'm not convinced that someone (even just one) person won't die after the concert as a consequence.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Because $$$$$$$

CNN has been advertising the shit out of the concert, so they probably want to make sure it happens.

[MisterNiceKitty]

3. The Mayor is urging attendees to spend money with local businesses