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A Tragedy is Unfolding
The New York Times ^ | April 9, 2020 | Annie Correal and Andrew Jacobs

Posted on 04/26/2020 11:35:18 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

Anil Subba, a Nepali Uber driver from Jackson Heights, Queens, died just hours after doctors at Elmhurst Hospital thought he might be strong enough to be removed from a ventilator.

In the nearby Corona neighborhood, Edison Forero, 44, a restaurant worker from Colombia, was still burning with fever when his housemate demanded he leave his rented room, he said.

Not far away in Jackson Heights, Raziah Begum, a widow and nanny from Bangladesh, worries she will be ill soon. Two of her three roommates already have the symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Everyone in the apartment is jobless, and they eat one meal a day, she said.

“We are so hungry, but I am more terrified that I will get sick,” said Ms. Begum, 53, who has diabetes and high blood pressure.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: GuavaCheesePuff

HEY NYC! Bob Dylan calls to YOU

“You used to laugh about

Everybody that was hanging out

Now you don’t talk so loud

Now you don’t seem so proud

About having to be scrounging your next meal. -

How does it feel???

“Like a Rolling Stone,”


21 posted on 04/26/2020 11:59:35 AM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. I WILL NOT WEAR THE WRISTBAND)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Airport still open?

Subway?

Bus station?

We know Uber is still running, although they're a driver short.

If things are this bad, they should lock this down so tight even Snake Plissken can't get out.

22 posted on 04/26/2020 11:59:51 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
"A Tragedy is Unfolding"

Clearly this needs a humane solution... Each of these wonderful people (and their friends) needs to be freed from this tragedy...

Anil Subba needs to be deported immediately, for humanitarian reasons, back to Nepal...
Edison Forero needs to be deported immediately, for humanitarian reasons, back to Columbia...
Raziah Begum and her friends need to be deported immediately, for humanitarian reasons, back to Bangladesh...

All of us might be able to sleep more soundly knowing that they are back home in countries that care for them...

23 posted on 04/26/2020 12:01:00 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
If the actual number of illegals that have died in the US from the virus were revealed, it is sure to be astonishing. They ill in cramped quarters, are ignorant to social distancing, many don't practice healthy hygiene, etc.
24 posted on 04/26/2020 12:01:19 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: The Fop

“This story from The New York Times is doomsday porn designed to scare people as the death...”

Doom sells, big. Same for getting federal research grants.

For “the news”’today, every blizzard with be “The Blizzard of the Century”, every hurricane the end of the eastern seaboard, and every new bug the end of mankind.

That is what they, in their hearts, want — calamity, catastrophe, suffering, anarchy, death and destruction. That’s a progressive’s heart.


25 posted on 04/26/2020 12:01:30 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Macoozie

I live in Queens, and it’s actually a wonderful place with a great mix of urban and suburban neighborhoods, amazing restaurants, and hard working, unpretentious people...and it is only in some of the Hispanic neighborhoods where language integration is a problem....BTW, the Asian immigrants have the lowest rates for the virus of any demographic.... On the other hand, both New York City and New York State government are among the worst in the country, and the transit system is a mess.... Please don’t lump the people who live here together with the people who are running things.... The Republican party in New York is the worst, so it’s not like we have a good alternative


26 posted on 04/26/2020 12:02:54 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Why would someone from Nepal come here? If they do, they should be able to provide for themselves.


27 posted on 04/26/2020 12:03:34 PM PDT by boycott
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Raziah Begum, a widow and nanny from Bangladesh,

Only 145 people have died in Bangladesh of the coronavirus. She would have been safe if she had stayed home.

28 posted on 04/26/2020 12:06:38 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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These people are worth more to New York DEAD ($39,000) than they are alive.


29 posted on 04/26/2020 12:09:29 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: Macoozie

A bit exaggerated but not far from the truth. Beginning to think that these Democratic governors have made it nearly impossible for primary physicians to treat COVID-19 patients in a timely, inexpensive manner as outpatients because they figure the Federal government will more than cover the expensive hospital charges for inpatient care. They have blood on their hands.


30 posted on 04/26/2020 12:12:17 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The problem is ventilators are killing people who should have been on oxygen instead of a vent.


31 posted on 04/26/2020 12:12:43 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: traderrob6
"... 80%-90% of the people that go on to a ventilator are so far gone ..."

Perhaps another way to look at this is that people are put on a ventilator because the alternative is to watch them quickly die.

When I recovered enough after two days to be taken off a ventilator, I had a serious cut on my nose. Now there is a very visible scar across the tip of my nose. Nobody ever said a word about how I was thus injured. My assumption is that it happened during the rush to get air into me to prevent my immediate death.

32 posted on 04/26/2020 12:13:20 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Darksheare

“Willie Green hardest hit.”

ROFLMAO!


33 posted on 04/26/2020 12:13:55 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

This is another downside of declaring yourself a “sanctuary city”. Many of these people would have failed the health exam at Ellis Island back when the USA had immigration standsrds.


34 posted on 04/26/2020 12:14:11 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

And what do they all probably have in common-—

Anil Subba, ILLEGAL Nepali Uber driver from Jackson Heights,

Edison Forero, 44, ILLEGAL restaurant worker from Colombia

Raziah Begum, ILLEGAL widow and nanny from Bangladesh, worries she will be ill soon


35 posted on 04/26/2020 12:14:38 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
… Doctors and community leaders say poverty, notoriously overcrowded homes and government inaction left residents especially vulnerable to the virus.…

”…and government inaction…”. how can that be? Don’t they all have (D) after their names? If the Times listed the names the list would start with Cuomo and deBlasio. Elections have consequences.

36 posted on 04/26/2020 12:15:26 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Anyone on a ventilator is lucky to see another year of life. Ventilators save few lives. Stay off them if possible.


37 posted on 04/26/2020 12:15:53 PM PDT by poinq
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“In the nearby Corona neighborhood,..”

Every neighborhood in New York is a corona neighborhood.


38 posted on 04/26/2020 12:16:01 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: The Fop; All

Queens has nice suburban areas...I agree. My family used to live in Queens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/realestate/floral-park-queens-urban-in-name-and-taxes-only.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/realestate/04livi.html


39 posted on 04/26/2020 12:16:08 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: Darksheare

Willie Green!!
I haven’t seen that name in years.
I liked him. Train guy.


40 posted on 04/26/2020 12:16:34 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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