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brianr:
Here, Daylight Saving ends on April 4 which is Easter Day.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on February 11, 2021, 12:12:18 pm --- Next week is Fat Tuesday
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Aka Mardi Gras. I haven't kept up with what they're doing in New Orleans this year. A normal MG is a PTO day for most people. You can't get anywhere in a car. Parades go on all day and the streets are packed with viewers trying to catch the plastic beads tossed out by people riding on the floats. Many of the parade viewers are wholesome families but in the French Quarter it gets a little wilder, and again Bourbon Street is usually wall-to-wall people. Will Mardi Gras be held remotely this year? Will the young men who customarily yell "Show us your tits!" have to yell it to women on a Zoom call?
Yet another population suffering due to COVID: drunk frat boys!
New Orleans was one of the original COVID hot spots, due to Mardi Gras before they knew COVID was a threat. During the George Floyd protests, people were packed in the streets and I figured another breakout would happen, but it didn't. That's when I realized the spread of COVID in NOLA must have happened more in parties and bars than in outdoor street activities.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on February 11, 2021, 03:06:29 pm ---Aka Mardi Gras.
New Orleans was one of the original COVID hot spots, due to Mardi Gras before they knew COVID was a threat. During the George Floyd protests, people were packed in the streets and I figured another breakout would happen, but it didn't. That's when I realized the spread of COVID in NOLA must have happened more in parties and bars than in outdoor street activities.
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Seemed like there were a lot of unmasked people crowded together for the Super Bowl parade. I saw some of it on TV and immediately thought, "Super Spreader Event!"
So it will be interesting to know what happens in NOLA.
I guess ordinarily what happens at Mardi Gras stays at Mardi Gras?
Sason:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on February 11, 2021, 12:12:59 pm ---My mom hasn't done my laundry in a long time. :laugh: The one time she tried to help, she created 'the bleach incident'.
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Exactly! That's what I meant. :laugh:
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 11, 2021, 04:41:41 pm ---
I guess ordinarily what happens at Mardi Gras stays at Mardi Gras?
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I suppose. I did once watch a guy gradually strip off his clothes, swaying around with his eyes closed as if listening to some inner music, ignoring the crowd of tourists standing in a circle around him taking photos like they were recording their vacation memories of Mount Rushmore.
But I don't know that guy's name, so I'm not violating any privacy.
I went to lots of parades but didn't spend much time in the thick of Bourbon Street. I had a friend with a condo and balcony overlooking Decatur Street, which runs along the river and gets pretty lively but is some blocks from the real madness.
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