COVID-19

You May Be Over the Pandemic but the Pandemic Isn’t Over

Nero fiddled while Rome burned and idiots dance as Delta rampages

Chris Zappa
4 min readAug 3, 2021

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Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash

I don’t understand people, and people obviously don’t understand science.

Or mathematics. Or odds.

This past weekend in Chicago’s Grant Park, Lollapalooza celebrated its 30th anniversary, crowding more than 385,000 people together over a period of four days.

While Lollapalooza — one of the biggest music festivals in the U.S.— was happening in the midwest, many smaller festivals were held recently, with many more planned for the remainder of summer.

The Hard Summer Festival, an EDM/hip-hop festival in Southern California, was held just over a week ago and attracted more than 160,000 people to San Bernardino.

That same weekend, the Global Dance Festival took place in Denver, Colorado, with tens of thousands in attendance over the weekend.

These are only a couple of the dozens of large music festivals being held in the middle of a worsening pandemic wave that’s set to be more destructive and deadly than the preceding waves we’ve seen since Covid began ravaging the planet around 18 months ago.

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