The evite to the event, a fundraiser for the Imperial Council of San Francisco and the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, notes attendees will have access to an outdoor heated patio until 1 a.m. Mighty Real & Juanita MORE! are co-hosting the party NYE 2022 Friday at The Phoenix Hotel in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. Most of the more potentially crowded events, like large-scale New Year's Eve parties, have not been canceled. Some bars are merely closing for a few days, while others remain open, showing very inconsistent precautions being taken amid news of the omicron variant's spread. "We take this action in an abundance of caution to keep our patrons and staff as safe as possible over the holiday, and with the hope that the coming year will bring health and prosperity to the community that calls the SF Eagle home." "For the health and safety of our patrons and staff, the SF Eagle will be closed until New Years Eve, December 31st, 2021," the management announced on the bar's website. In South of Market, both The Powerhouse and the SF Eagle have temporarily closed. We will remain closed until we have better information about the spread of the Omicron variant, and feel like it is safe to reopen." The Edge bar's management posted an announcement December 23 on its Facebook page, writing, "Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of our patrons and staff, we have decided to close today (Thursday) at 7 p.m. We didn't want anyone to get sick anymore," said Cappelletti in an interview with KGO. "We already had one of our employees with a COVID infection. Moby Dick will remain closed at least through New Year's Day. Moby Dick's owner Joe Cappelletti was one of the more cautious Castro bar owners through the initial COVID outbreak in 2020, as he kept his bar closed and boarded up until May 2021, a few months longer than others. Grant Colfax, a gay man who is the city's director of health, stated last Thursday as he pushed residents to get vaccinated or boosted ahead of the holiday week. "Omicron is rapidly spreading, and all evidence points to the fact that we need to do more to protect ourselves and others from infection," stated Dr. That was a near quadrupling of the 212 new cases reported on December 19. The San Francisco Health Department reported 964 new cases of infection on December 23. This is in response to the reported surge in omicron variant cases of COVID-19.
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Blackbird, The (new) Detour, The Edge, and Moby Dick have closed and posted notices on their locked doors.
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New Year's Eve celebrations in the Castro and South of Market districts will have fewer indoor options as nearly half a dozen bars and restaurants have temporarily closed out of pandemic health concerns.