They were vaxxed and waxed — but not masked. Thousands of people descended south of Market for the first LGBTQ street fair since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year — Folsom Street Market Sunday, July 25 — and its associated parties and events, many of which were indoors.
Many revelers didn't wear masks. It wasn't until the following week, however, that the need to rein in "hot vax summer" sunk into the consciousness of partygoers due to the highly-contagious Delta variant of COVID, against which vaccines are very effective but less so than for the other variants of the disease.
Folsom Market attendee Graylin Thornton told the Bay Area Reporter that at first it didn't seem odd to feel fatigued the Monday morning after a big