His final humiliation. Even amid a pandemic, Biden's inauguration will be much larger than Trump's.

[CatWoman]

has me feeling all warm and fuzzy.

[elleng]

1. MUCH larger,

in spite of covid (I suspect.)

[Iwasthere]

2. I will be there

Will drive from Salem, Oregon because of Covid19

[Kittycow]

4. You lucky dawg

I'll be watching KOIN channel 6 probably. First time I can bear watching the news in four years

[coti]

3. Should be even bigger than Obama's.

We avoided losing our democracy.

[BannonsLiver]

5. It's unclear what the inauguration will look like with the pandemic

We’ll likely be at the worst of the winter wave by then. Maybe over 200k cases a day. More likely a dramatically scaled down event.

[moonscape]

8. Agree. Unlike 45, 46 values lives and safety first. n/t

[Hortensis]

21. Agree. I've seriously wondered about people "attending"

in their cars like our convention, only tens of thousands honking happily. What a mess. Doable? Avoidable?
Where might they channel vehicles? Virginia? Maybe Walmart would like to offer its parking lots; there're probably enough in the general area to hold a million vehicles.

The swearing in will be at the usual place, and no doubt pedestrians will be on the mall to whatever numbers allowed. Trump will still be president until noon, but unlikely the Park Service and Mayor of DC will be swayed by him.

It'd be a 9 hour drive for us, and one I'm in the mood to make.

[Raine]

6. I doubt it ...

there probably won't be much of an inauguration because of the pandemic

[brettdale]

7. theyvshould set up zoom like with the nba

Hell imgaine 10 million people there virtually.

[Progressive Jones]

9. Great idea !!! nt

[sfstaxprep]

10. The Inauguration Will Be Small

There's no way around it. The pandemic will be out of control in January.

[mnmoderatedem]

11. yeah but to be fair

many high school graduation ceremonies will have a bigger turnout than trump's inauguration.

[jmowreader]

12. But most of the crowd...

...will be standing outside the White House doors with what Arlo Guthrie called “implements of mass destruction” (shovels, rakes, baseball bats with nails sticking out of them, golf clubs, chain saws, motorcycle chains...) ready to go in and remove that fat fuck from Joe’s house if he won’t leave on his own.

The smart consumer will watch our president deliver his inaugural on television, where it’s warm and there’s no virus, and we can raise our glasses, cigars and reefers to the Savior of Democracy.

[Jspur]

13. I don't think he will be able to have a public inauguration. They will probably

have to do it inside of white house. Look at how the Lakers and Dodgers can't get a championship parade due to Covid. Why would Biden put people at risk when even professional sports teams are not willing to do so?

[Doreen]

14. Hell, I would not be surprised if his crowd was bigger than Obama's.

[Pompoy]

15. I'd rather we didn't n/t

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. There will be MAGA agitators in the crowd.

Plans should be made to deal with them when they start disrupting the inaugural. Using Super-Glue on their lips would be a simple solution.

[onenote]

17. not likely given where we'll be in the pandemic

[musicblind]

18. Given how bad the pandemic will be in January,

they need to come up with a plan. A traditional inauguration crowd would be more than dangerous; it would be disastrous

[Tech]

19. I hope there is a very small and classy gathering. Not the time for pomp.

There is a lot of work to be done.

[WePurrsevere]

20. While I think Biden 'could', I think this time there will only be...

A very small gathering due to the pandemic which, if it goes as predicted, will be in the midst of a large surge.

Biden follows science and experts contrary to Trump. I'd be surprised if there was the normal 'super spreader' type of gathering.