New Year’s celebrations in Florida adjust to omicron

“Sushi,” portrayed by Gary Marion, is lowered to the ground in a giant facsimile of a woman’s red high heel on Duval Street on Jan. 1, 2015, at the Bourbon Street Pub in Key West. (BOB O'NEAL/Associated Press)
“Sushi,” portrayed by Gary Marion, is lowered to the ground in a giant facsimile of a woman’s red high heel on Duval Street on Jan. 1, 2015, at the Bourbon Street Pub in Key West. (BOB O'NEAL/Associated Press)

MIAMI — There are no plans for the neon Big Orange to rise up the side of the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami this year, and a festival with food trucks and performers in a northeast Florida beach tow…