I was referencing Walmarts alleged 200 sq ft per person restriction. The math might or might not work out on that, but in practice, people group up regularly.
Will the Iowa State Fair happen this year?
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I was referencing Walmarts alleged 200 sq ft per person restriction. The math might or might not work out on that, but in practice, people group up regularly.
I'm in Minnesota too. I don't expect they'll have the state fair. Walz is being more cautious than about any other governor out there, so I can't imagine it will proceed, even at a modified version. They do about 250,000 a day so that one is going to hurt a lot of people very bad. Hell, the chocolate chip cookie lady does $1-2m in business at the state fair every year.
Closed down the problem children and said he will pull liquor licenses, no warnings.
I'm not sure exactly. There's certainly a large ag presence. Lots of buildings full of animals and exhibits to look at. But then the midway/concerts are a huge draw, as well. They frequently draw 250,000 people a day though, so whatever they do, it draws a big crowd that I'm sure lots of vendors depend on for income.
Sweet Martha’s actually makes more like $6M a year at the state fair. $4.8 in 2018 but grew last year. Insane.
Davis Co. cancelled their County Fair this week, along with their 4th of July rodeo and their June celebration, Hairy Nation Days.
Don't get me started about the June celebration name.
Don't get me started about the June celebration name.
They have probably one of the best hands on ag setups of any state fair. Beyond that you’re right.
Saw where the nurse at the Wisconsin bar is now self quarantining at home. Really smart person stating she had a 4 year old at home and need to get out with friends. Mother of the Year material.
Yeah she walked back a bit and said she was out to support her sister who worked at or owned the bar.
She couldn't just send her sister some money?
Minnesota State Fair has basically double the attendees as the Iowa State Fair which is insane to me because Iowa's is huge. But thinking of holding the MN State Fair when people from all over the world come in...even if they dialed it back to minimal attendees it just isn't a smart decision to move forward with it. Who wants to be the state that has a massive 2M attended event that causes massive spikes around the country?
Did I say they didn't? Of course they do. Not sure what you point is here...
The fairgrounds are larger and the fair lasts for one more day than Iowa's so that accounts for some of the additional people. But it is really crowded on a weekday and ridiculously crowded on a weekend day (I'm including Labor Day as a weekend day). I'm glad they cancelled it.
Puts a lot of pressure on the ISF board to pull the plug for this year. It may be a difficult decision but it's not like you can wait till the day before to make the decision. When August rolls around and if deaths and cases are down to next to nothing there will be those that throw a fit about the fair not happening. People need to remember the circumstances and info available at the time when the decision had to be made.
We've lived in MSP for 5 years now and have been a few times. The first time we went, we took our then 2 yr old daughter. We went on a Saturday and made the mistake of staying too long. We were trying to leave as people were flooding in for that night's grand stand concert. It was insane. People jam packed in every direction and we're trying to get out with a stroller. Hard lesson learned.
Also, here's my other experience. I was told I had to try the roasted corn on the cob. You give your money to this guy in a booth about 50 ft from the corn stand. He gives you a ticket. You fight your way through a mob to get to the front. You literally stick your hand out of the crowd with ticket-in-hand. Someone from the stand grabs your ticket and shoves a searing hot cob of corn back into your hand. You fight your way back out of the crowd. I cannot imagine that in the post-COVID environment.
