Fully vaccinated people can do without face masks, museums and theaters are reopening: New York, which has been particularly hard hit by Corona, is slowly returning to life – but skepticism is also mixed in with the soul of the residents.
“Burn, baby, burn”, three elderly gentlemen sing in front of a steak restaurant in Manhattan, not far from the Chrysler Building. The disco hit comes from the seventies, when the Trammps, represented today by the aged trio, celebrated their greatest successes. After the musical introduction, Curtis Sliwa pulls a lighter out of his trouser pocket and holds it up to a pale blue surgical mask. Seven masks dangle from a broomstick, which two helpers hold horizontally like a high jump bar. Sliwa wants to set them on fire, one after the other. He wants to celebrate what he calls the masked solstice. Or the day of liberation.
“We have to bring the nightlife back to New York.” Curtis Sliwa According to the latest rules of the American Disease Protection Agency, fully vaccinated people can do without mouth protection, both indoors and outdoors, unless an authority or a private company still insists on wearing a mask. Sliwa, a dazzling original from the conservative scene in New York, takes the relaxation as an opportunity to put itself in the limelight for television. 42 years ago, at the time head of the night shift in a …
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