Posted on 01/01/2021 8:37:59 AM PST by Phillyred
For the first time in decades, the new year has dawned in Philadelphia without a formal Mummer’s Parade to accompany it.
Mayor Jim Kenney canceled the parade in July out of concern about the pandemic. Rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths are now far higher in the city compared to the summer, and parade leaders are cooperating with the city and urging people to stay home.
Still, thousands of people say they plan to go to a Mummer’s March in South Philadelphia on Friday anyway for what they are saying is not a “parade,” but a protest.
2,900 people said they are participating in a “Mummers/New Year’s Day Peaceful Protest Against Mayor Kenney” on Facebook, with another 8,500 expressing interest. The event is styled as such to give it the constitutional cover of the First Amendment, which protects the right to free speech and assembly.
“It should go without saying that everyone will be on 2nd Street New Years Day, strutting their best, to peacefully protest his administration in true, centuries old fashion, as we usually do every New Years,” the event description reads
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Excuse my ignorance but what the hell is a Mummers parade? First time I’ve ever heard of this group of people. Is that like the gay parade?
My ex was from the Philly area, and we went to the Mummers Day Parade a few times in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I have no clue about its history, but it’s interesting and weird.
...it is called COLDER WEATHER!!
As I wrote elsewhere, lest anyone think otherwise, we are seeing a SEASONAL RISE in cases and fatalities, and likely not a "surge" or a "new strain of the virus" or "carelessness" requiring cancelling everything.
The majority of deaths in most countries can be attributed to causes that feature a distinct seasonal pattern. The figure depicts the relative monthly frequencies of nine selected causes of death in the United States for women and men combined for the years 1959–2014. The reported number of counts in parentheses in the title of each panel is the actual number of deaths.
Viruses gonna virus. Even non-viruses gonna non-virus.
Based on this chart, the City should cancel the Mummers Parade forever. Somehow, I suspect when the sensationalism of this bug is over, the parade will come back and nobody will whine about the "surge" in influenza etc.
Open up the economy - the only thing that will cause an abatement is the vernal equinox.
Ditto! Just call it all a “Protest”.
Fun and interesting
Use to be very non PC. Just last year some of the clown division dressed in blackface (They were dressed as Phila Flyers. Another year they dressed as Chris Jenner, and the wore outfits as Cereal Boxes. ( Fruit Loops)
Even more fun if you open a tab for the YouTube link I posted to listen to Mummers’ style music as you read!
Awesome
Do you mean Bruce Jenner?
LOL no way! It’s been around a long time. Guess I’m aware because I’ve neighbored Philly all my life here by Baltimore.
That's just awful!
Yes I did. Senior moment sorry.
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