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"Be sure and get in on the Covid-19 Super Spreader event of the summer! Ride the Ventilator!"
This State’s Fair Is Set to Be a Cesspool of COVID & the Unvaxxed
TOTAL INSANITY
Thousands of fairgoers could be in peril as organizers forge ahead despite a virus surge and low vaccination rate.
Michael Daly, Special Correspondent
Published Jul. 21, 2021 4:57AM ET
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Bad enough that the Ozark Empire Fair went ahead last year when much of the country was closing down. Things are better elsewhere, but they are worse than ever in this area and yet the fair is doing it again this year. Never mind that the Delta COVID-19 variant is rocking Springfield-Greene County with its highest number of COVID hospitalizations in the pandemic—259 with “severe illness” by Tuesday’s count, more than 90 percent of them unvaccinated.
The city of Springfield is a partner in the Route 66 festival, but has no vote in the doings of the Ozark Empire Fair.
And the nine-day event draws tens of thousands of people from Springfield and the surrounding counties. Organizers are seeking to boost attendance with a logo that notes this is Missouri’s bicentennial as a state.
“Summer’s Biggest Party,” it promises.
A retired Springfield 911 supervisor named Bill Blevins put it another way in a Facebook post.
“Be sure and get in on the Covid-19 Super Spreader event of the summer! Ride the Ventilator!”
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/ozark-empire-fair-in-springfield-missouri-will-unite-covid-and-the-unvaccinated?ref=home
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