As mask mandate looms, Philadelphians stick with traditions, routines on a sunny holiday weekend

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Despite a breast cancer diagnosis, Gerald said she is choosing to keep living her life as usual amid the rising COVID numbers.

Nicole Hands, owner and soap maker at Donna Mary’s Soaps, said she’s slightly worried about losing business if COVID-19 rates keep going up.

Larisa Mann, a Temple University media studies professor and DJ with a group called Subversion in Philadelphia, said she isn’t celebrating anything in particular this weekend.

And so, especially in the absence of federal and serious state funding for COVID response and treatment, everyone should still be masking indoors,” Mann said.

Al Bland, who was shopping at the farmers’ market with friends, said they are looking forward to going to a movie theater for the first time in a while this weekend.

“We all got COVID for Christmas.

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