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Carnival Highs and Tabanca Lows: Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic (and a New Project!)

 

Note: This blog was co-written with Sherine, a Caribbeanist public health practitioner and Carnival aficionado.

We are officially in September, still in this twilight zone/reverse time warp that COVID-19 has made of 2020. Labor Day (U.S.) was this past Monday and in keeping with all the unwanted, but necessary, cancellations of Carnival; there was no official West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. Can’t be mad at it, since health and people-first should be our priorities, and the world literally had to “shut down” to manage and tackle the uncertainty of the pandemic. We did see footage of street fetes and impromptu “band sections” (cue tears for missing another round of Dutty and Pretty Mas), but if you’re like us, you kept your behind inside, ‘cause we need to dodge and outlast Rona long enough to fill the streets, cross another stage, and get on bad again “when de quarantine ting done and everybody touch road”…

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