Chase Rice Claims Fan Safety Is a “Huge Priority” After Performing to a Giant, Mask-less Crowd

From Cosmopolitan

• Chase Rice responded to backlash over his packed concert (during which no one was wearing masks or social distancing).

• There is currently a global pandemic going on and more than 100,000 people in the United States have died.

Coronavirus cases are surging across the United States, yet for some inexplicable reason, Chase Rice (who you might remember from Peter Weber’s season of The Bachelor) decided it was a good idea to go on tour and pack a buncha people into a room with no masks. What could go wrong? Oh, right: the global pandemic we’re currently in the midst of.

Chase came under fire for performing to a packed audience in Tennessee—which recently reported its highest single-day increase in coronavirus cases—over the weekend, and he just responded to backlash, claiming he’s concerned for everyone’s safety.

Hmmm, if safety was a huge, huge priority you’d think the tour would be postponed, right? But it does sound like Chase is attempting to step things up at future venues. He urged fans to “take your trucks” to his next “drive-in show” in Kentucky, saying, “You can get out of your cars, you can get out of your trucks and party with me. Please do sing the songs, but stay in your own space and the people you came with.”

The country singer ended the video saying, “Please go by the rules. Please go by the laws on this Friday show coming up and the shows moving forward, so we can get to regular shows soon enough.”

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