I can see why these Hmong are grieving, this coming weekend is money

[theking]

...but not for them due to COVID  :

Hmong Community Grieves Cancellation Of Its Fresno New Year Celebration, Largest In Country

This year will be the first time that the largest Hmong New Year celebration held in the United States will be cancelled. It's estimated that 100,000 people attend the celebration at the Fresno Fairgrounds. The cancellation has wide-reaching impacts on the Hmong community, economically and culturally.

[Visualmon]

Dayum! I don't get to see and touch things this year:

• beautiful gals in short dress
• ball tossing
• music festival
• food vendors
• DVD and CD vendors
• hugs for free booth
• house of arcade games
• MMA wannabe gangstas fight

[Kong Vang]

Dayum! I don't get to see and touch things this year:

• beautiful gals in short dress
• ball tossing
• music festival
• food vendors
• DVD and CD vendors
• hugs for free booth
• house of arcade games
• MMA wannabe gangstas fight

It was once a beautiful and good thing...  acceptable prices, a great social event and a distraction from my routine life. But now it has morph into a business, driven by profits, over priced venues and products. What little attention that was given to the cultural aspect of our Hmong people died a long time ago. In my humble opinion, Hmong New Year is dying a slow death and without CPR, fresh ideas from honest leaders, it will not survive.

 

[DuMa]

Yall got 9 months to get used to not having the luxury in life

I'm ok with it.  I'm not missing much.  Heard a article out that after this pandemic, more people are going to have sex.  I can't wait.