Saturday, August 21, 2021

Curious About "Festival in a Field"?

A reader provided Gossips with these photographs of the event described by some as "an anti-vaxxer's Woodstock."


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16 comments:

  1. As wrong-headed as these people are on the subject of biology, using private drones to spy on our fellow citizens undermines the ethos and foundation of a free and virtuous society.

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    1. Airspace above this type of property is considered public domain.

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    2. Not on the approach path to runway 03 @ Columbia County airport which controlled airspace. That drone should not have been there especially at that altitude.

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  2. Underwhelming turnout, at least from those drone shots. Just as well, since this had 'superspreader event' written all over it.

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  3. Vaxx Facts has received objections from two leaders of the anti-vaxx group DoWeNeedThis? about the recent Vaxx Facts newsletter linking them to bad actors in the alt-right.

    Vaxx Facts is not responding except with this: “Your anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-public-health mis-dis-information campaign is killing people and making others very ill... so, stop it!!!”

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  4. COVID is bad in two respects-- it kills people, and reveals just how much stupid there is in our country.

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  5. Why be concerned with the civil rights of antivaxxers when they obviously do not care if they kill other people by spreading disease?

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    1. You demonstrate how one danger begets another in a chain of unforeseen negative consequences.

      With each adverse development, and systemic entropy approaching irreversibility, every participant in the breakdown owns his unique share of the culpability.

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  6. If this country bestows civil rights based on intelligence or empathy, a large part of the population would be in serious trouble...

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    1. No, we would ALL be in trouble. Everyone.

      Anything else is a misunderstanding of the Declaration and the Constitution, though we're seeing a lot of that lately.

      Lincoln faced this conundrum when he suspended habeas corpus. Pray it doesn't come to that again!

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    2. Absolutely right! And, a large part of the population IS in serious trouble. Empathy? What empathy!

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  7. when unvaccinnated and unmasked adults are ready to sicken and die without medical treatment I will be much more interested in hearing their rants about freedom and civil rights.

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  8. Two weeks on and the organizers are happy to report that no attendees at Festival in a Field have succumbed to any respiratory diseases. Hopefully that will ease the concerns of some of the more overwrought posters here.

    May I suggest those who have shown such concern for the well being of their fellow citizens now turn their attentions and protestations towards the dutchess and columbia county fairs, where there are many thousand more unvaxxed and unmasked county residents mingling for days on end.

    Interested to see if a similar concern for health and safety prevails regarding these events...

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