Matt Mayes, 34, Kelton George, 24, and Brian Kennedy, 36, enjoy a drink at Beaux, a well-known gay bar in the Castro District of San Francisco as indoor dining in the Bay Area resumes after being closed for months due to coronavirus disease restrictions in San Francisco, California, U.S. March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Brittany Hosea-Small
“It feels awesome,” said civil engineering specialist Matt Skelton, 39, leaving a concession stand on Saturday afternoon clutching a bag of popcorn at TD Ballpark in Florida’s West Coast city of Dunedin, seasonal home of the Toronto Blue Jays. In North Carolina, college students whose university experience was rocked by the pandemic drew solace from watching a basketball game between UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University men’s teams, only the second game this season with spectators.
Against that backdrop, President Joe Biden said decisions by the Republican governors of Texas and Mississippi last week to order complete rollbacks of their mask mandates and other COVID-19 mitigation measures amounted to “Neanderthal thinking.” “The dream is real,” software engineer Brian Kennedy, 36, said as he nursed a bourbon by the bar on Friday night. “It feels relaxing and slightly normalizing.”
In Chicago, freelance worker Knyckolas Davis was relieved to be able to celebrate his 35th birthday out at Rizzo’s Bar & Inn, across the street from Wrigley Field ballpark, but he could not help longing for full normality.
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