Festival in the Park has been held in Charlotte's Freedom Park since 1964, and canceled just twice including for the coronavirus last year. A smaller version is back this weekend with about half the vendors and some COVID-19 precautions that include no shuttle buses for off-site parking.
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“It s kind of weird going from no one wearing masks at all, to masks again,” Anson Millard said. “It seems like just a weird backstep.
The evolving guidance isn t necessarily the problem. As the virus changes, the guidance also has to change, to keep people safe.
“This is a new virus for us frankly, Dr. Cameron Wolfe with Duke Health said. Because of that, this will continue to ebb and flow in ways that are hard for us to predict, try as we might.
But the CDC may have a communications crisis. Clear messaging is key in influencing the audience s behaviors, but this message doesn’t seem to be sticking. It was vague and didn t point out the specific areas in the country most at risk, leaving many wondering if it applied to them.