Why festivals are waiting for local governments to force coronavirus cancellations
Festivalgoers attend the 2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 13, 2018 in Indio, Calif.
Since launching last week, a petition requesting that South by Southwest be canceled or rescheduled over concerns about the coronavirus garnered more than 55,000 signatures and spawned a slew of media coverage. But even under that kind of mounting public pressure, the annual music, tech and film conference resisted those calls until Friday , when Austin Mayorand forced SXSW to shut down for the first time in its 34-year history.
“For coronavirus -- if not specifically excluded and they do have the potential for a claim -- the fear that people might contract the coronavirus is not sufficient,”previously. “The threshold in the policy is the event is ‘necessarily’ cancelled, ‘necessarily’ implies that there is a benchmark of severity that leaves you no choice, or prevents you from doing the show -- as opposed to a voluntary decision to avoid exposure.
Now that two major spring festivals have shut down this week, fans and other observers are eagerly awaiting a decision on Coachella, the Southern California behemoth that is widely seen as kicking off the official summer festival season.
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