Parades, street festivals and other large gatherings have all been cancelled this year. But organizers in Duesseldorf, one of the German Rhineland's main Carnival strongholds, didn't want to let Rose Monday in 2021 go completely without the traditional caricatures of current events. “It's a small signal that we're alive,” float builder Jacques Tilly told the German news agency dpa. Another depicted the brain flying out of the head of an activist against coronavirus restrictions. This year authorities are taking no chances, with public consumption of alcohol banned in some places.

Source: ABC News February 15, 2021 15:33 UTC