Do you think the Rose Bowl parade should have happened January 2021?
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January 2nd, 2021
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They cancelled the parade. Some of the floats have been worked on for a year. Do you think it would have been better to have the parade with distancing and controlling attendance?
If people can work on the float together it seems like they can ride on the floats and walk beside them in a parade.
I thought schools have their marching bands practicing and performing. They could have been in the parade. Maybe in California the bands aren’t performing together? I’m not on top of everything happening in California.
Or, are you on the side of take as much caution as possible and it was good to skip the parade this year.
Extra questions that are related: how did you feel about the Macy’s Day parade happening and what about New Years Eve in Times Square allowing some first responders to watch the ball drop and party in the street.
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No.
How would you keep everyone 6 feet apart (marching bands are shoulder to shoulder) the crowds watching are four or five people deep on a sidewalk ?
It’s over – New Years was yesterday.
In December 2021, let’s talk about NYD for next year.
Maybe they could have done the bands virtually, so the parade would be just floats, like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was this year. However, there would undoubtedly be people working closely together to get the floats out and on the road and so, better safe than sorry.
The Macy’s parade looked good only on the sponsoring TV stations. There were tightly packed crowds on the sidewalks on the routes to and from the staging areas. Where I live, NBC had lovely, audienceless shots, but the CBS station had shots away from the Macy’s front reviewing stand. Lots of crowds.
Nope. What’s to celebrate anyway? We can have lots of big bashes when at least 80 percent or more of the population is vaccinated.
No. The US is currently approaching almost double the number of deaths as 9/11–every single fucking day. Our hospitals are at or past their breaking point. Public gatherings are moronic and communicate the exact wrong message.
Absolutely not. Los Angeles County is a covid hot spot right now.
Los Angeles providers decline to transport certain patients due to hospital capacity
– “Paramedics and emergency medical technicians are declining to transport some less severely ill patients whom they might take to the hospital under ordinary circumstances, one of the many extreme steps being taken in Los Angeles County to deal with the COVID-19 surge crippling hospitals.”
The Rose Parade has lived way beyond its raisond’etre and should be retired.
Colorado Blvd on New Year’s Eve is midwestern families staking out their spots and explaining to their kids why that teenager just puked all over the sidewalk.
The game was moved to Texas.
I heard the parade was virtual. Does anybody know if that was true?
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