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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Read somewhere that the Omnicrome Variant has the same DNA as the common cold.
Not long ago I read an article that this variant could serve as an ideal “herd vaccination.” I haven’t heard much about it since then. Is there still talk about the positive possibilities?
Fauci saddened
During cold and flu season. Imagine that :)
It means moronic, in anagram world
Happened to go with friends & family to NY several years ago without knowing that there was such a thing as SantaCon weekend!
It was quite an interesting experience.
Seeing a drunken “Santa” peeing against a wall in a corner alley is something that I probably could have done without in my life experiences.
But it certainly was festive!!
It is the Oh My It Is A Crock virus.
Yes.
Watch recent Darkhorse podcasts [Two Evolutionary Biologists].
Thanks! I’ll do that.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Thank you...that one made me chuckle instead of spiking my blood pressure!
I don’t get that crap. Take a decent looking woman, and start sticking metal through various parts, and...well.
I guess I should be glad it isn’t those snot posts sticking out of the nose.
It’s just a fad, peer pressure motivates them for the most part. If their identity was grounded on something other than what their friends, peers thought of them, they could resist it. Unfortunately, no...
Sort of like a hangover.
Glad to see people out in the streets having some fun.
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