Variants be damned! NYC to throw ticker tape parade in July to celebrate health care heroes and essential workers
Variants be damned! NYC to throw ticker tape parade in July to celebrate health care heroes and essential workers Just as the world was beginning to see the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, American leaders and especially those in New York City were still saying to go to large events, China Town, and Broadway. The inevitible happened. And now just as the planet is seeing new effects of a much more infective Delta, or Indian, variant, New York decided to throw a massive ticker tape parade to honor essential workers. Good idea. When the pandemic is over.. Somehow, the media decided it’s finished, while England extends their lockdowns into July and people are heading back into hospitals in various nations.. The event honoring New York City’s “hometown heroes” will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 7 in the Canyon of Heroes. The parade will kick off in Battery Park and end with a ceremony in City Hall Park. “This year that we’ve been through, it has literally been the great...