HUMBUG!
Posted on 12/18/2021 9:15:49 AM PST by lightman
There’s Misery on 34th Street.
. ...this year, St. Nick wears a creepy red mask while sitting behind a desk as if a detached CEO, socially distanced from bored toddlers, also masked.
Children sat on Santa’s lap the last time Santaland was open in 2019. Not anymore.
“Guests will visit Santa in his office this year and will be seated opposite Santa’s desk,” says an edict on the Macy’s website.
“What’s the point of going if your kid can’t sit on Santa’s lap?” one frustrated parent texted to friends after visiting the winter wonderland on the eighth floor of the Herald Square store.
And even before entering Santa’s office, kids and their parents take a Polar Express to pandemic depression.
The line through Santaland is filled with hand-sanitizing stations, social-distance warnings, and several mask-up reminders, noting “reindeer excluded” from the governor’s mandate. But the kids aren’t laughing as they wait 40 to 90 minutes in masks to visit with Saint Nick. ...
“Some of these experiences (for children) will never return to normal,” she fears.
Frustrated parents blamed an ongoing overreaction to a virus that has little impact on children, along with Gov. Hochul’s last-minute Grinch-like mask mandate.
“No other state is coming down as hard on children and it all goes back to the governor,” said the Manhattan mother of two, ages 9 and 6.
Parents are speaking with their feet. Attendance appears to be down dramatically at Santaland, though part of that decrease is by design...
Reservation slots have been booked days in advance, Veras added, while noting that families can no longer walk in off the street hoping to meet Santa, “in order to more effectively manage the overall capacity, limit lines and ensure ample space for social distancing.”
Maybe Christmas future will be better.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
HUMBUG!
Well they could always move the heck out of super high crime, high murder rate New York City.
Eeeeeeek!
It’s the guy wearing the ladies red underwear as a mask!
Believe it was read earlier there is a shortage
of Santa helpers this Christmas.
This, too, contributes to long lines and tiresome
waiting time.
What is a parent to do? Have the child sit atop
Santa’s desk in order to take a photo? As deer
are ‘supposedly’ carriers of the Chinese flu,
reindeer could do so as well.
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