COVID-19 is a global crisis, and the virus is spreading rapidly. While most festivals (music or otherwise) are canceling or postponing their events, Rolling Loud Music Festival in Miami, FL is still on schedule for May 8-10, 2020. This shows a lack of social awareness and responsibility that will not be tolerated by the American people at this time. Founded by Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler, Rolling Loud quickly became one of the festival circuit top festivals, drawing crowds of up to and beyond 40,000 people per year.

Recently the Imperial College in London released a study done through simulation, estimating the deaths of COVID-19 in the USA could reach approx. 4 million people if social isolation is not followed. This number was reduced to mere thousands if all individuals take social isolation seriously, follow institutional recommendations, and do not leave the home for nonessential activities. The CDC has also released scientific data that confirms that bodily fluids are the most common and easiest way for the virus to be transmitted from person to person.

Rolling Loud Music Festival has assured that it will provide free facemasks to its patrons but that is simply not enough. Taking place in Miami, FL these patrons will be participating in physical activity in a humid, tropical climate. They will sweat, and it is likely that through this and various other bodily fluids that if one infected person is in attendance the virus will rip through not just the attendees of Rolling Loud, but through Miami as well. This petition calls for Rolling Loud Music Festival to cancel or postpone its event to prevent the excessive spread of COVID-19 and keep the population of Miami and the United States as safe as possible