By Shelby Mitchell
Feb 16, 2021
MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) The Mobile parading organization The Comic Cowboys have a unique solution for making their parade happen Tuesday February 16 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since 1884 the Comic Cowboys have highlighted the missteps and irony of local events and leaders, always without malice, using humor, satire, and sarcasm with signage on board our anything but glamourous floats. It is without question one of the most anticipated parades of Mobile’s famed Mardi Gras, as revelers can’t wait to see who ‘made the parade’ that year.
In the 137 years of our existence, only World War I and World War ll have cancelled our parades.
‘Do the right thing’: Alabama’s top health officer concerned about Mobile Mardi Gras risk
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
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Mardi Gras Day in Mobile represents a concern for Alabama’s leading public health officer who implored revelers on Friday to “do the right thing” and avoid large crowds.
Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer, said he sees a large gathering for Mardi Gras having the potential of causing a COVID-19 super spreader event one year after the 2020 Carnival activities in New Orleans were blamed for creating an early coronavirus hot spot that led to a surge in cases and deaths in the Big Easy.
Without the Mardi Gras parades, Mobile rolls on with road construction
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Posted Feb 13, 2021
Crews are busy at work along Royal Street in February 2021. Typically, road work is halted during Mardi Gras in Mobile so the roads are cleared for the parades. But without any parades in 2021, the road work has continued without much delay. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
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Gina Jo Previto is not about to spread a conspiracy theory involving the carved up Royal Street in front of her downtown business and the lack of Mardi Gras parades.
But she’s wondered why the downtown Mobile road project in front of the nightclub she manages has lasted well into Mardi Gras season. The road is part of the regular parade route during Carnival, and any road construction would have disrupted the annual two-plus-weeks of revelry.
Dec 9, 2020
Alabama Govenor Kay Ivey, as expected, extended the statewide mask mandate today.
The Governor says, Even though the vaccine’s delivery is right around the corner, we shouldn’t lull ourselves into complacency by thinking that we’re out of the woods yet. The facts are indisputable. Our cases continue to rise, and we have more Alabamians diagnosed with #COVID19 than ever before.
The Governor did not announce any other changes to existing COVID-19 regulations. And she said she has no plans to cancel Mardi Gras (though yet another Mobile Mardi Gras organization, the Order of Venus, has announced plans to cancel their parade and ball)