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All New Orleans bars closed through Mardi Gras, NOPD enforcing COVID-19 protocols
#1
Talk about a wet blanket! A big wet blanket...

The New Orleans Police Department along with other law enforcement agencies held a news conference Friday to address enforcement of COVID-19 protocols heading into the Mardi Gras weekend.

NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson announced that all bars would be closed starting Friday and will be closed through Mardi Gras day.

This also applies to bars operating as restaurants with the A.R. conditional permits.

Street closures in the French Quarter also include the closures of Bourbon Street, Frenchman Street, and the Claiborne Avenue corridor.

There will be no sales of packaged liquor in the French Quarter.

No pedestrians or vehicles will be allowed on Bourbon, Decatur and Frenchmen streets between the hours of 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. with the exception of residents, employees, hotel guests and restaurant/retail goers.


https://www.wdsu.com/article/nopd-provid...s/35484641
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#2
I thought Covid topics go to the other side
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#3
We were there Fall of 2019...watching the parade in 2020...then Austin Shut down SXSW (which brings in nearly half a million people) and San Antonio 'delayed' Fiesta, which concentrates 3.5 million!

And Louisiana became a hot zone. Right after wards there were more cases in LA population 4.6 million than the Houston Metro Area, pop 7 million!
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#4
If only they had done that in 2020, but they were not sufficiently warned.
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#5
I thought they had decided that about 10 days ago.

This is on the right side. It's party news.
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#6
Without forcing this to be moved to the other side, I can say that a number of the local residents have turned Mardi Gras into Yardi Gras by way of house floats. Here is a map: https://www.kreweofhousefloats.org/map

... I do suspect, however, that some folks aren't going to abide by the restrictions, and it will become a problem. For me personally, I'm more concerned about the inevitable fireworks and gunshots, often accompanied by violence -- which is a problem every year, and more likely to be a bigger problem this year because people feel so cooped up and limited by all the restrictions.
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#7
.......naw......lins.......
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