Dear Live Event Industry professional,
Thank you for responding. The success of COV-AID will be reliant on an organic, on the ground response in each city. Just as was done with #RedAlertRESART in 2020, we are reliant on the vast network of Live Event Industry professionals in each city to come together in your city and develop and deliver a plan. Local promoters will work with local tour managers, production managers, the production community, the local production companies, the chosen venues, the local health department, and medical providers. Think national, act local.
There will be a lot of details and a lot of hours and hard work to achieve a high quality, rapid vaccine distribution in every city. But this industry can and will deliver because it is what we do. The solutions will be different in every city. You will not need permission from anyone to make this happened aside from your local team, your local health department and your local medical suppliers that are involved. Appoint a leadership team in every city and begin.
Our goal is to offer a well-organized, rapid system of vaccine delivery in every market. There is expected to be a large supply of vaccine in mid-February and it is our goal to be prepared to help meet that demand.
The COV-AID Leadership Team is connected with the Biden Transition Team, the HHS, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, the National Governors Association and several Senators and Representatives across the nation. The COV-AID Leadership Team includes leaders from across the industry including Live Nation, AEG, C3, Red Light Management and the many organizations that have worked for the industry in the past months.
Organizing the Live Event people, resources and venues is the easy part. The local promoters will have relationships with venues, vendors, and personnel. Connecting with the local medical community dealing with the vaccine distribution may the part you struggle with the most. We suggest you begin with the local health
department in your community and work from there. If you cannot create a path, respond to We Make Events and we will assist. We strongly suggest you leverage all your knowledge and relationships in your city to make this work, just as you did with #RedAlertRESTART.
Our ultimate goal in COV-AID is to assure that the vaccine is distributed as rapidly and safely as is possible. The medical community can and should provide all PPE items that are needed. If we can accelerate the distribution to achieve herd immunity by one month, that is one month earlier we can get back to work.
This is our chance to shine and our moment to show America that the Live Event Industry is here for them in the country’s moment of need. Thank you all in advance for all that you do and remember, you don’t lose until you quit. We will never quit!
To sign up or obtain further information please go to this website:
https://forms.gle/KeAFrGCfvRUYWvRb9
COV-AID Vaccine Delivery Assistance Plan
In the spirit of Live Aid and Farm Aid, the Live Event Industry is prepared to offer their services, in the form of COV-AID, in order to assist with increasing the speed and efficiency of vaccine inoculations. The Live Event Industry is one of the best prepared, best equipment, most experienced industries in the world to manage and control large crowds in a rapid fashion. Moving people swiftly and safely is one of the cornerstones of the foundation of the Live Event Industry.
With that in mind, here are the key points for you to focus on:
– The entire Live Event Industry has been largely idle since March 13, 2020. There are over 10 million Live Event people sitting dormant. These people are, for the most part, highly skilled and highly trained in organization, crowd management, dealing with people and constructing sites. Many have offered to volunteer to assist in COV-AID vaccine distribution. There is no need to look any further for a labor force when this highly qualified, well trained labor force is at the ready.
– There are several thousand Live Event Companies also currently dormant and many of these firms own the equipment and infrastructure required to safely manage, control, and move people in an orderly fashion. This infrastructure already exists in many places, is sitting idle and is paid for. Therefore, there is no logical reason for this equipment to be replicated by an entity (or entities) attempting to assist with vaccine roll out.
– Thousands of large venues across the country (arenas, stadiums, amphitheaters, etc. and perhaps even empty or under-utilized shopping malls and/or their parking lots ) currently sit empty or underutilized. Each feature the size, parking facilities and necessary infrastructure to through-put large crowds rapidly, if properly coordinated.
– Several industry organizations currently exist, and are willing to get involved, which can quickly mobilize to set up vaccine inoculation centers. These organizations can design, deliver, and manage the infrastructure as well as the people needed to staff them.
Here is the simple view of how we propose it will work:
– In each market a venue or venues will be identified. Local health and medical officials will work with Live Event people to design the set up for that particular area.
– The Live Event teams will execute the physical set up and provide needed infrastructure from local production firms.
– The local Live Event staff in each market will serve as labor (directing and coordinating ‘people traffic’) each day while the local medical staff handle all of the actual medical details.
Much of the Live Event Industry has offered to assist; from venues to concert and production companies to labor firms and individuals. These teams of Live Event professionals will deliver a swift, safe, high quality solution just as they do every day, worldwide for concerts (large and small), festivals and special events.
The biggest names in the industry including Live Nation, AEG, C3, Red Light Management, IATSE, IAVM, IAFE, NIVA, NITO, IPA, NAPA, TPA, WME, SLEN, ESA and many others are all ready to move into action. We will begin at the top with the Biden Transition team, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients,
Congress, Governors, Mayors, HHS, Local Health Departments, and the medical community in each area.
A coordinated effort by the medical teams with the Live Events Industry will assure the fastest, safest delivery vaccine inoculations in the U.S. by managing large crowds in a manner which the Live Event Industry do, virtually every day!
The entire Live Event Industry looks forward to assisting in speeding up the delivery of the vaccine inoculations with their talent and energy.
To sign up or obtain further information please go to this website:
https://forms.gle/KeAFrGCfvRUYWvRb9
Thank you.
Michael T. Strickland
mstrickland@banditlites.com
