Without vaccines there will be no show

When a concert is promoted aimed at fully vaccinated people, this applies to any human being in the coliseum, stadium or theater. That is, if the audience is to be vaccinated to enjoy the show, so must the artists, musicians, technicians, and production staff in charge of offering the show.

The alternative to not complying with the protocol of the Department of Health, is to hold an event with distancing, which allows strictly 50% capacity.

The concert of the singer José Luis Rodríguez “El Puma”, held last Sunday at the Coliseum in Puerto Rico, was an event for vaccinations, because the promoter requested it – in this case produced by Rolando Santa and Angie García – and a once the Department of Health discovered that three of the musicians did not have the two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, it asked them to leave the venue and almost canceled the event, “based on the same producer requested that everyone should have the vaccines, “said Jesús Hernández, director of the Research Office of the Department of Health.

As a solution, the event at the last minute became one with distancing, so the team of the coliseum and production, had to redistribute the 850 people who went through the metal detectors, according to the figure given by Hernandez.

The general manager of the Coliseum of Puerto Rico, Jorge Pérez, also reiterated that the policy of ASM Global, the firm that manages the venue, requires that everyone who attends any event, be there or in the new Coca- Cola Music Hall, must be vaccinated.

“Section 4 of the new government ordinance states that the operator may take additional measures as it deems necessary to safeguard the safety of its visitors and employees. At ASM Global, and in coordination with the Convention Center District Authority, we have agreed to make this parameter compulsory for all the facilities we manage in Puerto Rico, including the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, the Convention Center, the Coca Cola Music Hall and the Antic Casino. (yesterday), evidence of total vaccination must be submitted, exclusively, in all the premises we operate, “added, in a written statement, Jorge Pérez, CVE, regional manager of ASM Global.

Between November and December, the band Cultura Profètica and the draper Bad Bunny will perform on another stage: Hiram Bithorn Stadium, in Hato Rei. Do the rules change to be an open space? The answers of the Department of Health and the Municipality of Sant Joan agree that they do not change and apply equally to everyone.

Move Concerts, in charge of the production of the Bad Bunny concert, promotes the two functions – which will bring together a total of around 60,000 people – as those exclusively for vaccinations and must present physical or digital evidence. Similarly, Dynasty Corp, a company that appears on the ticket sales page for the Prophetic Culture concert on the Ticketera platform states that “every customer who buys a ticket must show: ID and COVID-19 vaccination card with full doses. In addition, you must comply with the safety protocols established by the staff. “

Prophetic Culture, as a group, has publicly expressed its rejection of the policies established by the Government on vaccination, arguing that they are “discriminatory”.

“It is more than clear that we do not agree with the discriminatory impositions of the state with respect to compulsory vaccination. We understand that health is also a lifestyle and a personal decision that the state itself has failed to promote. “, establishes a post on the Instagram account of the group led by artist Willy Rodríguez. “In the absence of sufficient resistance to these new rules in PR, we saw ourselves at the crossroads of playing, or not playing a concert scheduled since the beginning of the year. We have decided to impact and heal our people with love from from our front: the platform. We will be working so that there are alternatives that respect personal freedoms “, closes the message, which until yesterday afternoon had 8,313 messages, between people who support the position and those who reject it.

In the event that Prophetic Culture -who was asked to comment on this matter and no answers were received by any of the two press contacts- maintains its position and some of its members are not vaccinated, what would happen to the concert announced ?, the director of research of the Department of Health was asked.

“Here we have several scenarios: We have the scenario of a promoter stating that they must be one hundred percent vaccinated. We have a municipal institution that states that they must be one hundred percent vaccinated, so we will continue with our inspection as If there is any change, we will evaluate the matter, but the reality is that they must be vaccinated, “said Hernandez, who has already seen events canceled at the last minute because someone in the production does not have the complete vaccines, these are activities for 100% inoculated people.

“We are talking about the promoter himself setting the rules and the institution, and again, we respect the rights of all citizens, but there are some basic rules set that tell us the executive orders and the courts have already expressed themselves on this issue, so in that sense they set the rules themselves, however, I can change them for me to be the artist, no. We will follow the same rules and the clear example was yesterday (Sunday), ”he argued.

We’re not going to give up on auditing. This is a matter of life or death, we are not talking about it being a light matter, so we will do our job according to the protocols established by our scientific group. “

–Jesús Hernández, director of the Research Office of the Department of Health

On how the Bad Bunny production team, which fell ill with COVID-19 but has not spoken openly about vaccination, is handling this vaccination issue, the Health researcher noted that “they are working together”.

“With a lot of these promoters, we sat down and worked together. We saw it last weekend with a person of this genre of reggaeton or urban music (Eladio Carrión, at Coca-Cola Music Hall) where we work hand in hand with this promoter and in the same way we will work with this other artist (Bad Bunny), so we have had very good communication. ‘be vaccinated and have complied,’ he said.

Move Concerts and Noah Assad Presents responded to the request for a statement made by this newspaper.

Last weekend figures from the culture and entertainment industry, such as singers Andrés Jiménez and José Nogueras, producer Raphy Pina and urban music artist Natti Natasha made public their vaccination process, each in different stages. Ricky Martin has also spoken out in favor of vaccination.