The Mississippi Book Festival issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Book Festival announced today it has cancelled the in-person event scheduled for Saturday, August 21.
According
to Holly Lange, the Festival’s Executive Director, “We are disappointed
to have come so close to the finish line, but growing concern and
cancellations from many of the authors and panelists scheduled to attend
has led our Board of Directors to make the hard decision and forgo the
in-person event. While we could have continued to wait, the trend lines
were moving against us, so we all thought it best to give everyone
enough notice so that schedules and travel plans could be changed.”
Lange
went on to say that even though the in-person event was cancelled, the
Festival plans to move as many of the author panels and conversations as
they can to virtual presentations in the coming months. “We had more
than 180 authors signed up for 49 very exciting panels,” Lange said, “So
our hope is to bring those authors and moderators together online in a
variety of formats. We are moving forward with a renewed commitment to
engage our book-loving community and continue the spirit of the
festival. We encourage everyone to stay tuned for updates on our virtual
package coming soon.”
Hundreds
of people work year-round to make the Mississippi Book Festival a
success, and it wouldn’t be possible without the help of generous
sponsors and donors from across the state. The Community Foundation for
Mississippi is this year’s presenting funder. Other top funders include
the Mississippi Legislature, Visit Mississippi, The James and Madeleine
McMullen Family Foundation, The Selby and Richard McRae Foundation, The
Phil Hardin Foundation, Donna and Jim Barksdale, The Crooks Foundation,
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, The Mississippi
Humanities Council, Trustmark National Bank, Mississippi Public
Broadcasting, The University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi State
University, The University of Mississippi, The National Book Foundation
Literary Fund, Mike McRee, and Carol Puckett and John Palmer.
For more information, visit msbookfestival.com. You can also connect with the Mississippi Book Festival on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
16 comments:
At least the authors are smart enough to know when to call it off. From the announcement it sounds like the organizers were still going to push through with this super-spreader event until the star guests cancelled.
Time for Tater to reinstitute restrictions on gatherings like we had last year.
I don’t want a bunch of authors drinking heavily while talking in the Sanctuary of my church anyway..
But a 700 person Obama birthday party is totally fine
It is fascinating to see which large events are deemed too dangerous/super spreader events, and which are allowed to proceed with little objection.
Based on the media's tacit blessing of Obama's party, I am guessing profitability and/or the level of power and nobility of the host is the true key to earning that Covid-safe label.
Karma got Julia.
someone needs to tell the clarion liar. they are still running a banner ad.
At least the people can still go to a library though! Oh, wait. . .
As if there is much overlap between the unvaccinated and people who go to book festivals. Give me a break.
@1:01
The vaccinated are literally walking super spreaders.
An interesting discussion with Dr. Bret Weinstein and Dr. Robert Malone, the creator of the mRNA therapy (but not the Covid-19 one)
Last time I heard anything about the Book Festival, it was being held OUTDOORS - in the middle of Jackson. Is that still the case? Who in their right mind, holds an event outdoors, in early August, in Mississippi? ...particularly an event for people of different ages and levels of fitness?
Cities are heat islands. Parking lots are heat islands. Maybe if the event were being held in the Northeastern corner of Mississippi - in deep woods, and beside a lake... ...and if there were enough electric fans.
Outdoor events, in August, in the Deep South, are only viable for reasonably-fit, reasonably-young people in bathing suits - people who can quickly jump into lakes, oceans, or swimming pools.
But expecting book fair attendees to brave that level of thermal stress, is INSANE.
@1:19 - Is that the conclusion you took from that video you posted? Are you intentionally trying to make anti-vaxxers look dumb?
@4:48
Right on cue. You can't attack the message so you attack the messenger.
Enjoy your damaged organs because you let cable news scare you over a bad cold with a 97% survival rate that you took a took a poorly engineered and poorly tested experimental mRNA therapy.
1:19, as said on the other site, your "inventor of mRNA, Dr. Malone" didn't invent mRNA although he did work on its development, but just because he doesn't like that his pharmacutical company didn't succeed in developing a vaccine for COVID, we don't have to buy into his b/s crap that he is selling - largely through idiots like you - through he paid 'interviews" wherein he spreads more of his claims which have been totally discredited by anybody with a real epidemology education. Unlike your PhD in epidemology that you received yesterday from Manav Bharti University.
352, obviously you have never been to the MS Book Festival.
Yes, there are parts of it that are held outdoors - kinda like a picnic on the grounds of the Capitol (under shade trees, rather than a picnic on the beach). But the major attractions are discussions with authors that are held indoors - in various locations surrounding the Capitol grounds.
Maybe try coming to the next one before you decide to declare those attending or those putting on this festival as INSANE
7:06 - he wasn't attacking the messenger, but his point was valid. 1:19 continues to push his hero Dr Morgan as being a genius that knows all (because he claims albeit falsly that he invented mRNA) when in fact he is nothing but an individual who's pharmacutical company tried and failed in their development of a vaccine and therefore wants to demean all the successful producers as being a fraud.
Morgan has been proven to be a nutjob - now 1:19 is trying to join his club.
4:48 - well, because of the "bad cold" you mentioned, UMMC is building a tent-hospital in a hot as hell parking garage to put the high school students in beds.
The middle and elementary school students will have beds inside the hospital.
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