A concert isn’t worth dying for

Think about standing on top of a mountain or a big hill outside of town, it’s always amazing how far and how much you can see. You can see little houses and trees and so many interesting things from up there. 

I’d imagine being on stage is pretty similar. 

I think that looking out from up there that the gaps and holes in the crowd where people were literally dying on the floor of a concert, would be pretty easy to see from an elevated position. 

When I first heard about the deaths and disaster that happened at Travis Scott’s concert, I couldn’t believe something like that could happen. 

How can people just die in a crowd like that, there’s so many people, certainly someone should want to help them. And while there were some people in the crowd who did nothing to help or made it harder to help many simply couldn’t help, or they might have faced the same fate.

Then I read and heard first hand accounts of people that were in crowd and of a medic at the concert. There was almost nothing those people could do. 

The medics tried their best to keep people alive and the people there were trying their best to stay alive. 

However, I believe that the people on stage and the people in charge of the event that were above the crowd weren’t as helpless as they claim to be. 

Travis Scott had been warned before about how dangerous his concerts have been and how dangerous this concert could potentially be before he performed.

He knew that in the past people have been paralyzed at his concerts and he still exercised no caution or awareness for his fans in the crowd.

Now eight people are dead, and even more are hospitalized.

In fact, there is currently a nine-year-old boy who has been placed in a medically induced coma due to the extent of his injuries from the concert. His favorite artist was Travis Scott so his dad thought it would be nice to take him to see the concert. That was a really nice thought with a terrible ending. 

His father woke up on the ground without his son after passing out at the concert and then found his son listed under John Doe in a hospital connected to a ventilator in a coma. 

That is just one of the cases of hospitalization due to injuries gotten at this concert. And there are plenty of more cases of people who have sustained severe injuries from the concert. 

If I had never heard about other artists stopping shows because they saw people passing out, I might have sympathy for Travis Scott and the backlash he has been facing. 

That isn’t the case, numerous stars have stopped shows and called security to help people in the crowd. 

Don’t believe me? 

Look it up, Adele, Nirvana, Panic! at the disco, A$AP Rocky, Harry Styles, Fall Out Boy, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Foo Fighters and so many other bands have taken it upon themselves to make sure their fans are okay. 

Shouldn’t artists care a little bit about their fans, especially the ones right in front of them?

How he continued to preform a concert where you could obviously hear and see the distress of the people in the crowd is astonishing to me. 

Travis claims he wasn’t aware but how could he not be? 

I’ve seen the videos where the crowd yelling to stop the show is louder than the music. It’s time he takes just an ounce of responsibility for the lives that were lost or permanently altered by the recklessness of him and his team.