Mardi Gras 2021 (Parades, Some Krewes going Virtual) Not Happening!

St. Widge said
I'm sure the politics and the nation wide criticism she took for having Mardi Gras last year influenced her decision, but there really was no choice. 2020 Mardi Gras was probably the main reason that New Orleans was such a hot spot early in the pandemic and we started from zero cases in New Orleans and not many in the country. If we had parades in 2021 with the level of cases we have now in New Orleans and then add in people from around the country from areas that have outbreaks, it would be exponentially worse this time around.

I don't really remember the criticism I guess. We as a nation were still pretty naïve about the virus. We thought that the first confirmed cases in the country were the actual first cases. And I had people at my work who were very sick with bad breathing problems a good 3 weeks before Mardi Gras. I really think those were likely cases of Covid and we just were not testing yet. In retrospect, with the number of people who congregate for Mardi Gras, the only surprising thing is that it wasn't worse.