Gotta agree with Charles Mudede here. Jason Rantz shows how tiresome it is to view everything through a partisan, political prism. Having said that, Rantz is right about one thing: "Will media fearmonger this as a superspreader event like they did with a country music festival?"

Sure, it's hard to take him seriously, kinda like when the boy who cried wolf finally saw a wolf. (I guess if we're talking the boy who cried wolf, you're talking The Wolf country radio, not The Bull country radio.)

But it's easy for us as Seattleites to heap scorn on the maskless bikers in Sturgis, SD. But the maskless fans at a Seahawks game? Is that left to those Seattleites who turn their nose up at spectator sports?

And Charles rightfully points out the policy implications of "the brazen rejection of official and unofficial mask mandates by Seahawks fans." How do you effectively enforce a law that almost nobody's bothering to follow?

Here's a related story that I'm still trying to wrap my head around. About San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who I think has been doing a doing a stellar job at an impossible job:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/london-breed-violating-san-francisco-mask-order/index.html

You'll need to show somehow that the 12's screaming at the top of their lungs without masks (and there were plenty) were Seattleites for the "Leftist Hypocrisy" charge to stick. Seahawks fans come in from everywhere in WA, not just Seattle proper: Granite Falls, Shelton, Enumscratch, Chelan, Fort Vancouver. Those fans made the choice.

It would be almost impossible to police that many people openly defying a masking requirement, and Lumen Field staffers are not paid that kind of money.

“ The new dispensation will be characterized by the death of mandates of any kind and from any source (city, county, state, federal), because they are clearly not universalizable (or, put another way, not a law).”

Ya, because when you say “this is a LAW!”, that will get you so much more compliance. Wether it’s a mandate, law, social construct/norm, or belief, if enough people don’t want to follow it, then it’s not going to be followed. Unfortunately, COVID doesn’t care.

So, let me get this straight. Every one of those fans has been immunized. The fans are outside. But the fans are getting special treatment, and allowed to ignore the rules. Holy shit, Rantz is calling Seahawk fans elitists. Wow.

Oh, and Breitbart: We really, honestly want all of you conservative dip-shits to get vaccinated for the same reason we want liberal dip-shits to get vaccinated. It is the same reason we want everyone to get vaccinated.

One more time folks. You don't get the vaccine to protect yourself, you get it to protect society. If enough people get vaccinated, the disease won't spread, and it really can be like the flu. Or measles.

It is the same reason I don't drive drunk. Yeah, I might hurt myself -- but I really don't want to kill anyone. Too many people -- and that includes you, Nicki Minaj -- are too stupid too understand that.

@7: "Every one of those fans has been immunized." This is a critical point that was left out of this story and which I myself knew but had forgotten. Technically, it's proof of vaccination or a negative test in the past 72 hours, but same difference.

So there's a huge difference between a Seahawks game where just about everyone was immunized and what went down at the Sturgis motorcycle rally. Looks like there was no proof of vaccine requirement either at the Watershed Music Festival at The Gorge, which I believe is the country festival in question. Now, if I'd been at that game yesterday, I would have masked up myself, but I'm someone who doesn't have a problem being the odd person out.

Everyone had to show proof of vaccination to enter. People wore their masks while inside the concourses, then took them off outside. Anyone know the risk of transmission for vaccinated people outside?

@2, so apparently you know what Mudede's ass smells like.