Having written about the Super Bowl, below, I started thinking about the next event which is Mardi Gras/Carnival. It falls on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, the official beginning of Lent.
A quick check shows that both New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro have cancelled the celebration for 2021, because of the Chinese flu. Sad but probably a necessary precaution. One that will cost the merchants of both cities many millions of dollars in lost tourist revenue.
