70,000 people, all quarantined together in a fucking mudpit, rumor has it a highly contagious virus is spreading through the festival grounds and festival goers are walking around barefoot in the mood and are going to get all sort of nasty foot diseases. There’s food and water rationing in effect and really the only co conclusion I can get from this is that somebody is probably gonna die from this.
Like since covid I think we as a society realized but haven’t yet actually accepted is that large social gatherings are a societal danger and we shouldn’t be doing them for fun. Yes I never went out in college, my friend group consisted of my dnd group, normalize that instead of super spreader crowd crusher mass gatherings. My opinion on this is the same with guns and cars, abolition would be a good thing. Now I’m a realist, the people want their treats, sometimes a mass gathering like a protest is necessary. Can we at least all agree that there needs to be some change in the way we as a society do huge fucking events like this?
In conclusion burning man sucks, hippies aren’t communist.
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I agree with the general sentiment though, mass gatherings have lots of potential dangers and negative impacts on the surrounding area. A better organized society could probably mitigate that for the most part at least though.
They really should have planned for rain, not their brightest move to not have contingency plans for unexpected weather events.
They knew it was coming at least a week out.
They knew the heavy rain was coming to the desert where it couldn’t be absorbed well and didn’t prepare at all? Like not even the individual people going?