Yeeehaw indeed….news reports surfaced this week that an area health agency sees a huge spike in pregnancies about five weeks after the Country Jam Music Festival in Grand Junction, Colorado.
According to Fox News (yeah, I know) Nurse-Family Partnership supervisor Wanda Scott said referrals to her agency from the Mesa County Health Department quadruple every year after the music festival known as Country Jam. Normally she sees 25 to 30 pregnancies a week, but about five weeks after Country Jam, that number skyrockets to 80.
There's a similar event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which is sponsored by Budweiser, even, and that doesn’t seem to have the same spike in pregnancies. Is it something about the mountains and the clear Western air that stirs thoughts of procreating (or at least forgetfulness of birth control) in the redneck soul, or is it something more?
I'm also wondering why all these people are still in Mesa County five weeks after. The festival seems to be a nationally promoted thing on the order of Bonnaroo, so why would enough attendees still be in the county five weeks later to take a pregnancy test?
Mysteries abound. As do babies in Mesa County in March-ish, apparently.
