Posted on 09/24/2020 10:30:04 AM PDT by C19fan
New York's Times Square will bid farewell to 2020 without the usual huddled masses jamming the streets on New Year's Eve officials have announced, amid fears that crowds could spread coronavirus.
The New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square is among the biggest in the world, typically drawing about a million people to the streets of midtown Manhattan, with more than a billion more tuning in on television.
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I keep saying that the dems want to remove everything from us that unites us as a country and that holds special tradition for us, that gives us identity.
They started with Easter, then Memorial Day. They tried to scrap Fourth of July but we outdid anything that would nhave normally gone on.
Labor Day - out.
they are trying to cancel voting in person. I’m sure Thanksgiving and Christmas are on the docket as well although I don’t recall hearing anything about them.
So this is our new normal. A country they are redesigning to remove everything that gave us cultural identity.
Nope. We’re celebrating anyways and keep those traditions and what they represent alive.
[But mostly peaceful protests are allowed and encouraged.]
One of the most inane events in recent decades.
No legit NYer would be caught dead there—yet always a massive crowd, with people wearing adult diapers because they knew they wouldn’t have access to facilities once they got past security into the penned in areas.
Perfect for Nadler and Biden.
I’m shocked at the left’s ability to drag this thing on beyond the couple of weeks it deserved.
It’s kind of dividing the nation between the mask Karens and the rest of us that ignore it all.
This is what happens when you forget the scare tactics were only meant for certain people. They are now believing their own lies.
NYC seems intent on going broke. Imagine all the money spent in that city during late December up to Jan 1.
Poof! gone.
Who cares about New York’s Ball dropping
The marxist in charge is very happy to cancel anything that New Yorkers do for fun. They want to make as many people as miserable as they can.
Next: Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But not ramadamn or juneteenth, or White Guilt month.
“I keep saying that the dems want to remove everything from us that unites us as a country and that holds special tradition for us, that gives us identity.”
Yes.
Most who go along don’t even understand this.
This may be because of the virus. But the reality is that the city can’t afford anything. Just after the election you will be told how bad these cities are in debt.
I had to look to make sure this wasn’t the Babylon Bee.
I wouldn’t be in the 5 boroughs let alone in Manhattan on any 12/31!
Exactly ! screw the stupid Democrats
But protesting can still go on.........................!!
Here is to hoping NYC becomes a ‘virtual’ ghost city.....
Fuck you, de Blasio.
NO. APOLOGY.
Just cancel New York period.
“They cancelled the lights on 9/11...”
The “tribute in lights” was done this year - but I believe a group stepped in to fund it. This is about a bankrupt city, not public health. It is hard to conceive just how badly this whole thing has damaged the finances of NYC, and the work-arounds by employers have exacerbated it - businesses are doomed, and the city and state are losing a ton of revenues.
More and more places are returning to some semblance of normal; it just isn’t happening in cities where 1) they can’t pay the police overtime to provide for public safety, and 2) they can’t keep people safe anyway.
Ridership is down on the NYC subway but crime is up; think about that.
Spot on. Also run by authoritarian thugs drunk on power.
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