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Who wants to wear a mask when everyone is wearing a mask?
Who wants to scare anyone when reality is scary?
How to finally go out into the street on the scariest night?
Oblivious to the uncontrolled coronavirus and the looming electoral panic, Americans threw themselves in hordes to celebrate their deepest tradition of Celtic origin, resistant to all kinds of vicissitudes and pandemics.
Dozens of cities imposed restrictions or outright outlawing
door-to-door
trick-or-treating
, but New York once again became a showcase of horrors.
The popular Sixth Avenue parade was called off, yes, but people moved the party to the iconic
Washington Square
fountain
.
Trump masks shook hands with killer clowns.
Little Red Riding Hood was holding Wonder Woman's hand.
The bogeyman was crossing the traffic light with a bag of bones.
A professional trickster was handing out fake dollars ...
Extinction Rebellion
activists were also there
,
disguised as endangered animals, inviting locals and strangers to celebrate "the dance of democracy."
"It is scary to think about it but our most basic rights are threatened and that is why it is so important to vote this Tuesday," stressed Martha Higgins, an activist dressed as a tigress.
"For that and to put the climate crisis back at the heart of politics."
In Washington Square, the "Niuyoricans" Luis and Jay Hernández, father and son, exhibited their peculiar tribute to President Trump face to face: twelve white molds with the president's face and with his most representative gestures ... " "You have to dress up. He scares us every day. He has been doing it for four years.
All year long it's Halloween under his mandate and we have to do everything possible to make sure the party ends this Tuesday
.
"
In this peculiar symbiosis of Halloween and the Day of the Dead, the city is populated with skulls, Mexican sweets and street altars, such as the one built in honor of
Juan de León Gutiérrez,
a young Cuban watched over by his entire family, in the middle of the night traffic of people dressed for an endless party.
Lines wound around the corner at Abracadabra, the Village's most popular costume shop, where Trump's masks weren't exactly the most coveted.
"This year, people have" customized "their costume
to suit the times we live in," explained Joe, one of the clerks.
"They were looking for masks that were not very seen, they mixed accessories from here and there, they wanted something that was surprising but not especially terrifying."
Despite the initial fear of a Halloween "blackout", the truth is that the costume sector has weathered the storm badly than well.
It is estimated that Americans have spent
$ 8 billion on Halloween trousseau
this year
, compared to $ 8.8 billion in 2019. "We have sold more decorative motifs for houses and windows than in the 55 years we have been open." , certifies in the
New York Times
wholesaler
Scott Morris
, in charge of Morris Costumes in Charlotte.
People who have not gone out have celebrated it at home.
Or they have made custom photos on Instagram, like so many celebrities.
Or they have arranged zoomed-in encounters to frighten or exhibit at a distance.
Or they haven't been able to suppress an impulse and have dusted off last year's wig and mask at the last minute ...
"I have done it above all for the children," excuses herself Marion Depuy, a French woman living in New York, who attends the Halloween party on Seventh Street with a dinosaur mask and her two children by the hand, Anette and Oscar.
"They have endured a lot this year and they were excited to come. We all need this kind of escape deep down:
we have to shake off fear, and this is our great occasion, even if only for a few hours."
Oscar and Anette, dressed as princes and princesses, shake hands with little confidence with a witch who leads them from place to place in the middle of the street.
The kids are freaked out as soon as the first ghost that comes their way tells them to open their bags for the "trick-or-treat" and get ready for a plentiful shower of chocolates.
In New York, it was kids and college students who made the difference.
"Goodbye to masks and social distancing, at least for a day,"
boasted a certain "Lucy in the Sky", dressed as John Lennon and taking photos with three other friends (Paul, Ringo and George) in one step of Zebra from Second Avenue.
Two of them study Politics at NYU and despite everything that is happening they have not lost faith in the future:
"Everything will start to improve if we can at least change tenants in the White House."
In the East Village, meanwhile, a group of "trash metal" summoned all demons before an audience between goth and apocalyptic.
After the last howl, with the horns on and the blood of glue dripping down his forehead, the singer launched a proclamation that was subversive: "And don't forget to vote."
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