Posted on 12/11/2021 4:51:45 PM PST by Trillian
New York City's SantaCon returned this year as hundreds took part in drunken debauchery after the booze-fueled festival was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.
The event brought countless of maskless Santas, Grinches, reindeers and other holiday-themed characters to the Big Apple on Saturday to march, crawl through pubs and celebrate Christmas.
The fun times come amid concerns that the gathering might serve as a super-spreader for the COVID-19 Omicron variant, which has now been spotted in half of U.S. states, including New York.
At least 43 people in the country have contracted Omicron, with New York confirming 20 cases of the variant as of Friday, 13 of which were located in the city. New York has reported more than 11,000 new COVID cases over the past day and 80 new deaths.
The annual pub crawl usually results in revelers being flagged for public urination, littering, and the usual disorder that results from mass drunkenness.
Hundreds of this year's attendees also went maskless, even after outgoing NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio warned of further Omicron spread in the city.
'We gotta assume there's a lot more behind that and that it has been here for a meaningful amount of time,' he said, warning more cases of the variant 'were now inevitable.'
New York received its first confirmation of the Omicron variant in late November, after a Minnesota man attending the Anime NYC convention on November 22 tested positive for the virus.
Hochul also said Thursday that that man only suffered very mild symptoms, and has since recovered. She stated that there was no cause for alarm and that the state has the tools to stop the spread as Hochul reinstated New York's mask mandate for all indoor venues unless the business requires customers to be vaccinated.
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As if Omicron actaully means something.
Was Omicron released from The Lab to be an effective “vaccine” for COVID?
Good for them! I hope they have a great time.
Fewer and fewer people are falling for the fear porn.
Not me. I safely ensconced somewhere in PA.
WHY did they turn a story about what looks like a fun pub crawl into a story about covid? Aargh!
Omicron! Omicron! Omicron!
Oh you mean that horrible infectious disease that hasn’t killed one single person?
Yes! I hope the tide is turning toward sanity and against absurdity. The only word I can use is absurdity.
Around here, not yet reported.
I wanted so much to believe in Santa but after seeing this just can’t anymore.
I thought the pictures were funny, so I posted it. They make every story about covid now just like global warming/climate change. It’s so irritating with the amount of propaganda they have out there.
EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ABOUT COVID!!! or covid dies.
But...but...Omicron DOES mean something. ..MORONIC!!!
The only other thing I can say for certain. You do not mask or quarantine healthy people.
Masks don’t work let alone getting a virus outside where UV kills it.
Nope, and take your nose ring with you. How do you blow your nose?
And isn't that what Christmas is really all about?
I hope nobody gets the dreaded ohmygoshcrom virus. They may get it and not know it. Then they’d be asymptomatic and not get all stressed about it. maybe not get vaxxed or a booster shot.
Because they can’t stand seeing people going about their lives with no fear and no submission muzzles on their faces. :)
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