Shijo-dori street at dusk, with hanging lanterns to celebrate the cancelled Gion Matsuri, a festival of purification and pacification of disease causing entities that takes place throughout July, including two large parades. The Gion Matsuri has been an annual event for over a thousand years, but not this year.

Seems like this year might be a good time to pacify disease causing entities, but science has won out over superstition.