COVID’s Got Legs

There will be no high kicks in Midtown this year: The “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes,” a New York City institution, has been canceled.

For the first time since it debuted in 1933, there will be no dance numbers to the “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” or “The 12 Days of Christmas.”

Why not? You guessed it: “uncertainty associated” with COVID-19, says MSG Garden Entertainment, which manages the Rockettes.

The virus’ toll on entertainment is now stretching to December. “Christmas has officially been canceled,” Samantha Berger, who has been performing with the Rockettes for 15 seasons, sighed on social media, adding two broken-heart emojis.

MSG will also lay off 350 people, about a third of its corporate workforce, as the pandemic socks live-performance venues.

Also last week, organizers canceled this year’s Columbus Day Parade, due to the virus.

At this point, Americans — people the world over, actually — are asking: When will this nightmare end? COVID has taken 700,000 deaths, wrecked economies and caused untold misery. And doomsayers keep saying there’s no end in sight, even as several vaccines race toward completion.

“It seems, to me, unlikely that a vaccine is an offswitch or a reset button where we will go back to pre-pandemic times,” says Yonatan Grad, an assistant professor of infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Please. Man has gone to the moon and put rovers on Mars. We invented cars and computers. And ice cream! We beat polio — and numerous other diseases. Hang in there. We’ll high-kick COVID to the ashes of history before you know it.