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    Florida concert promoter charging $18 for tickets if you're vaccinated, $1,000 if you

    A Florida concert promoter is getting creative with new ways to encourage his community to get vaccinated. At an upcoming punk-rock concert, he'll be charging $18 for tickets to people who are vaccinated and $1,000 to those who are not.


    Paul Williams of Leadfoot Promotions came up with the idea while brainstorming how to book the concert in a quick and efficient way, according to local station WFTS. With vaccines becoming widely available for people in the state and new CDC guidelines allowing the return of live events, Williams thought that offering a discounted ticket to vaccinated concertgoers was the first step to doing the show safely and creating an incentive for more folks to go out and get vaccinated, he told WFTS.


    “We’re just trying to do a show safely. And they should go out and get vaccinated to protect themselves and their families and their community,” Williams told WFTS.

    Earlier this month, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning vaccine passports in the state of Florida.

    “In Florida, your personal choice regarding vaccinations will be protected and no business or government entity will be able to deny you services based on your decision," DeSantis said in a statement.


    Knowing that he could not legally exclude non-vaccinated people from the concert venue, Williams said he encourages those who aren't vaccinated to buy the full-price ticket, and if they do, they'll be treated just like everyone else, he told WFTS.


    Still, no full-price tickets coming in at $999.99 have been purchased.


    The concert will take place on June 26 at VFW Post 39 in St. Petersburg, FL. In a promotion for the event on Facebook, requirements for the discounted tickets are laid out, saying, "To be eligible for the DISCOUNT, you will need to bring a government issued photo ID and your COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card (if you have lost it keep reading, we got you). You will need to have had your second shot of Pfizer or Moderna, or your single shot of Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on or before 6/12/2021."

    The concert will feature performances from punk-rock bands Teenage Bottlerocket, MakeWar and Rutterkin. Williams' vaccination incentive plan seems to have the support of the bands as well.


    "We're all vaccinated. We encourage everyone to get vaccinated so we can see you in the pit," Ray Carlisle, singer and guitar player for Teenage Bottlerocket, told WFTS.


    Williams compared this idea for a concert incentive to other businesses that have made special offers to vaccinated customers, and is hopeful that it will drive people to want to be vaccinated so they can get out and have good, safe fun.


    "I also wanted it to be a vaccine drive to get the fence-sitters off the fence," Williams told WFTS. "I wanted to get the kids that want to go to shows to go out and get their shots."


    Florida concert promoter charging $18 for tickets if you'''re vaccinated, $1,000 if you'''re not

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Teenage Bottlerocket
    Might get armstrong back into the mosh pit.


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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Earlier this month, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning vaccine passports in the state of Florida.

    “In Florida, your personal choice regarding vaccinations will be protected and no business or government entity will be able to deny you services based on your decision," DeSantis said in a statement.
    Staggeringly bloody minded and stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    Staggeringly bloody minded and stupid.
    Which is a euphemism these days for "Republican".

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Which is a euphemism these days for "Republican".
    Well, yes. They’ve out teapartied the tea party
    Last edited by Saint Willy; 29-05-2021 at 09:29 PM.

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    ...Eh?

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    Out tea partied. Was what I meant.

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    Making people dance. :-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post

    Could be rebranded as Ramones-182.

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    Excuse me, But any of you that think this is a good idea, of segregation, need a quick history lesson. IE, the jews in Germany?

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    Quote Originally Posted by havnfun View Post
    IE, the jews in Germany?
    that didn’t take long...*facepalm*

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    Quote Originally Posted by havnfun View Post
    segregation
    will it work for the recalcitrant stupid ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by havnfun View Post
    Excuse me, But any of you that think this is a good idea, of segregation, need a quick history lesson. IE, the jews in Germany?
    The jews didn't exactly have an option though did they.
    Here people do. Choose to get vaccinated for the general good of the community, or don't and be (rightly) spurned. No one wants a plague rat around. Up to you.
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    Here is a question for you all are pushing the vaccine.

    Ok you know it is EUA yes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    The jews didn't exactly have an option though did they.
    Why they did not an option? They had moved into many countries, many of them to USA. Isn't more Jews in USA than in Israel (Palestine)?
    BTW, before the idea with Palestine, wasn't one of the options to create a Jewish state somewhere in USA?

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    Quote Originally Posted by havnfun View Post

    Ok you know it is EUA yes?
    UK isn't in the EUA anymore?

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    Quote Originally Posted by havnfun View Post
    Here is a question for you all are pushing the vaccine.

    Ok you know it is EUA yes?
    What's that got to do with anything?
    What's your objection to the Vaccine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    What's your objection to the Vaccine.
    It is deeks ffs. He is a retarded knuckle dragging trumpanzee moron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    It is deeks ffs. He is a retarded knuckle dragging trumpanzee moron.
    That is an insult to even retarded knuckle dragging trumpanzee morons.

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    In the same vein, more discrimination against plague rats. Maybe we should make them wear some kind of symbol so we know who the plague rats are and can avoid them or turn them away.
    The problem is these idiots would wear it as a badge of honour,
    A hat shop in Nashville, Tennessee that reportedly sold “Not Vaccinated” badges resembling the yellow Star of David which Jewish people were forced to wear by the Nazis has removed a post promoting the item, following extensive criticism online.


    ‘Tyranny’: Idaho governor repeals lieutenant’s mask mandate ban
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    The now-deleted post on an Instagram account for hatWRKS showed a smiling woman touching the front of her shirt, to which a patch was affixed, with the caption: “Patches are here!!”


    The post said the patches cost $5 each and had a “strong adhesive back”. HatWRKS said it would be “offering trucker caps soon”.


    This utterly repulsive shop in #Tennessee is selling ‘not vaccinated’ yellow stars, desecrating the memory of all victims of the Holocaust. It should be shut down immediately. #Antisemitism pic.twitter.com/RhqP4KDHKD


    As reported by the Tennessean, social media users reacted with the hashtag #HateWorks, slamming the patch as antisemitic and “disgusting”. The Instagram post generated “thousands of comments”, the newspaper said.




    Such reports echoed controversy this week over comments by Marjorie Taylor Greene, the hard rightwing Republican congresswoman from Georgia who likened measures to mitigate the transmission of Covid-19 to Nazi repression of the Jews.


    Resistance to vaccinations, mask mandates and other public health measures has been a feature of the pandemic in the US. The Biden administration said this week that 50% of US adults were now fully vaccinated but among Republicans in particular, resistance to vaccinations has spread.


    Attempts to reach hatWRKS for comment were not immediately successful.


    High-profile figures were among those who slammed the shop online.


    A former US ambassador to Nato, Ivo Daalder, remarked: “As a young schoolgirl in Holland, my mother was forced to wear a yellow star by the Nazis to identify her as a Jew. It’s beyond grotesque to sell this evil symbol to proclaim one [is] not vaccinated. Where does this end?”


    The actor W Earl Brown commented: “I am ashamed to know that I’ve given these people business in the past; I’ve sent people there. This is vile and repulsive. They trumpet that they’re proud to ‘Stand Up Against Tyranny’. Well, I am proud to say GO FUCK YOURSELF. I’ll purchase my chapeaus elsewhere.”


    Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, a CNN analyst, said: “I like to think such stupidity, insensitivity and ignorance in America cannot be commonplace. It’s real.”


    The store defended its decision.


    A new Instagram message said “people are so outraged by my post” but asked: “Are you outraged with the tyranny the world is experiencing? If you don’t understand what is happening, that is on you, not me. I pay much more respect to history by standing up with the fallen than offering silence and compliance. That is the worse crime.”






    Many on the right in the US are opposed to so-called “vaccine passports” or any measures by which proof of vaccination is required to travel or to enter shops or venues.


    Another hatWRKS post stated the belief that as the US emerges from the Covid pandemic, people will not be permitted to go about their daily business “unless you show your papers”.


    “At the least, all unvaccinated people will be segregated from society, marked and must wear a mask. What comes next? … Much of this is happening right now. There is a historical parallel to fascism to be drawn. We can only fight back to not relive history.”


    On Saturday, the hatWRKS Instagram account also contained a post quoting David Icke, a former British professional footballer who became a leading peddler of conspiracy theories, some of them antisemitic. Last year, Icke was suspended from Twitter for sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.

    Tennessee hat shop in storm over ‘not vaccinated’ Star of David badges | Nashville | The Guardian
    “If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.

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