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Packed Lollapalooza wraps up with massive
crowds in Chicago amid fears the four-day
concert could become a COVID super-
spreader event

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Posted By: Imright, 8/1/2021 12:20:56 PM

The four-day Lollapalooza music festival was drawing to a close on Sunday, with health officials hoping that they haven't witnessed a super-spreader event. Organizers were estimating that 100,000 people would attend the event daily for the 30th anniversary celebrations, in Chicago's Grant Park.Concert-goers had to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test from 72 hours prior, and on the opening day - Thursday - Lollapalooza officials said that over 90 percent of attendees presented proof of a vaccination.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Highlander 8/1/2021 12:39:49 PM (No. 864347)
Instead of worrying about a “super-spreader,” just see it as an opportunity for developing herd immunity.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: red1066 8/1/2021 1:05:37 PM (No. 864376)
Everybody there was there because they wanted to be. Nobody forced them to be in the crowd. It was their personal decision to attend the concert knowing it would be crowded. The crowd consisted of mostly young people in somewhat healthy condition. Get over it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/1/2021 1:07:36 PM (No. 864381)
I thought Antifa/BLM RIOTS (ahem, Peaceful Protests) were immune to Covid...How can anything as nasty as Antifa/BLM catch anything worse?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Come And Take It 8/1/2021 1:32:29 PM (No. 864416)
The Democraps are doing a great job of undercutting their own message of fear when they do things like this. They are trying to reward their good little vaccinated sheeples with a return to normalcy, but what it really does is show they aren't as concerned about this social distancing and mask crap as they are trying to sell.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/1/2021 1:53:58 PM (No. 864432)
I would be more worried about catching 9mm lead poisoning than the China flu.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bighambone 8/1/2021 2:37:22 PM (No. 864465)
Didn’t the Mayor of Chicago skip that COVID super-spreader event in Chicago and travel to Cape Cod to hobnob with the Kennedy clan?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bad-hair 8/1/2021 4:25:02 PM (No. 864592)
Ditto #5 Lolla's got a lot of catching up to do.
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