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Munich's Oktoberfest celebrations canceled amid coronavirus pandemic: 'The risk is just too high'
Fox News ^ | April 21 2020 | Michael Bartiromo

Posted on 04/21/2020 7:49:59 AM PDT by knighthawk

Markus Soeder, the governor of Bavaria, along with Dieter Reiter, the mayor of Munich, announced on Tuesday that the region’s annual Oktoberfest festivities would be canceled due to the health risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

“Difficult decision with Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter,” Soeder wrote on social media, per a translated tweet. “The Oktoberfest 2020 must be canceled. The risk is just too high. You can neither keep your distance there nor wear a face mask. Living with [coronavirus] means living cautiously until there is a vaccine or medication.”

The festivities, which were scheduled to begin on Sept. 19 and run through Oct. 4, would have been the 187th celebration of the beer-themed event.

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KEYWORDS: germany; munich; oktoberfest
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1 posted on 04/21/2020 7:49:59 AM PDT by knighthawk
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2 posted on 04/21/2020 7:51:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Risk of what? This isn’t the Black plague.


3 posted on 04/21/2020 7:52:28 AM PDT by dljordan
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Sh*t just got real!
4 posted on 04/21/2020 7:53:07 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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I’m sure a fair bit of it is having to put money down on the front end now, not knowing if you’d get any return. In other years it was just a given. This year, not so much.


5 posted on 04/21/2020 7:53:53 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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Look honey, everybody is out of step but our Johnny.


6 posted on 04/21/2020 7:54:51 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: knighthawk

The Muslim population likely will hold their own celebration in mock.


7 posted on 04/21/2020 7:56:21 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: knighthawk

Doesn’t figure. For the first time in 30 years I was gonna go.


8 posted on 04/21/2020 8:03:01 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Joe Biden: The gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: knighthawk

Good grief. They can’t risk the virus in October, but they can trust an East German as PM all these years.


9 posted on 04/21/2020 8:03:18 AM PDT by txrefugee
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It’s pathetic, what has become of humanity.

Have we become so coddled and spoiled by modern conveniences that we can succumb to fear so completely and so easily?

Or is it a risk/return financial decision, like someone else mentioned in this thread?


10 posted on 04/21/2020 8:08:23 AM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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Now we will see if the German men still have balls.


11 posted on 04/21/2020 8:10:58 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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12 posted on 04/21/2020 8:11:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Move it to Poland!


13 posted on 04/21/2020 8:12:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It seems odd that this event is five months away, and they already decided to cancel.

Are they just expecting the world will still be on lockdowns and restrictions then?


14 posted on 04/21/2020 8:21:20 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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It seems odd that this event is five months away, and they already decided to cancel. Are they just expecting the world will still be on lockdowns and restrictions then?

I would check to see if they just want to cash in on insurance claims this one year.

15 posted on 04/21/2020 8:26:56 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: NorthWoody

My own personal $.02 is that when a country has too much prosperity for too long a period of time, its people become soft. If generations go by without anyone experiencing any significant degree of hardship, they become not only soft, but also lazy, shallow, apathetic, and cowardly. They want complete and instantaneous victory, without any personal cost or risk to themselves.

The ancient Romans are a case in point. From a valiant Republic, to the gilded Imperial era with its bread and circuses, to the sacking of rome by the various barbarian hordes. By that time, the Romans had lost all memory of how to fight, and all will to re-learn it.


16 posted on 04/21/2020 8:29:05 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ
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To: dfwgator
Funny, that was exactly the clip that came to mind. Along with the song Rush used to play on one of his updates.

Seriously though, the two world wars really reduced the testosterone stock in Germany.

17 posted on 04/21/2020 8:29:12 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

alot of it has to do with the fact that the primary brewers start brewing their inventory for this event in April.

by cancelling it now, the main brewers wont have to overproduce.


18 posted on 04/21/2020 8:32:02 AM PDT by QualityMan
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

that gal is painfully gorgeous.


19 posted on 04/21/2020 8:33:40 AM PDT by QualityMan
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To: VeniVidiVici

It used to be on my bucket list too.. A ‘Hajj’ to LagerLand... right below running a marathon with Sasquatch.


20 posted on 04/21/2020 8:33:58 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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