Posted on 04/26/2021 11:52:28 AM PDT by mylife
Officials in northern Spain’s Pamplona have called off the famed San Fermín bull-running festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pamplona Mayor Enrique Maya cited a prevalence of coronavirus outbreaks, a high occupancy rate in hospitals and a slow rollout of vaccines as reasons to call off this summer’s celebration.
“The festival cannot be organized overnight,” Maya said Monday during a news conference. “This is very hard. I never thought that this could happen.”
The nine-day festival in July is easily Spain’s most international event. The festival was popularized by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” and up to last year’s cancellation had last been called off during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
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mayo!
What about that town with the big annual tomato fight?....................
In know! right!
Good. We need less animal cruelty in the world. Let them run Dimmocommies if they need the sport.
Well, tomatoes are full of vitamin C!.................
Splash some COVID vaccine on their horns and let the bulls do the jabbing.
Wusses .
The vaccine is out, call off your heavy handed government control .
how did Spain ever become a world power? cuz the puss is strong there...
Title should have been.
Covid gives new lease on life to stupid.
was it Isabella?
Spanish people are currently not allowed to leave whatever province they live in. This is not only affecting festivals like the running of the bulls, it’s also ruining the Camino de Santiago in a Holy year. Commie Pope Francis has extended the Holy year to the end of 2022 because of the pandemic.
spain has been bowing since the madrid bombings, but bowing to what?
I don’t see why they can’t hold the festival as long as the bulls wear masks.
bet the muzzies walk about on their lil pilgrimages..
Ohh Jebus! you went there!
I predict it will never happen again. This two year hiatus will be the excuse to “reflect” and “move forward.”
All that you have loved and believed before the great reset will have to be surrendered if we keep supporting the GOP over a new party.
The GOP is nothing but the bitch arm of the Uniparty.
Now where the hell are we supposed to go to watch a good goring
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