I go there on business a couple of times a month. I have meetings in a number of contractor facilities and government buildings.
Traffic both auto & pedestrian is scaled back because of the scamdemic. Government workers don't need to be told twice to stay home. Many are supposedly working from home.
Before retiremwnt my wife was in commercial real estate there. NoVa & DC are both way over built. Its been that way since the 90s. The scamdemic makes it effectively worse.
That's what I like about you. You never let facts stand in the way of a fantasy!
I think you are letting the scamdemic rhetoric cloud your thinking. For all intents and purposes our government is shutdown. Two years on and there is no current reason for all the govt buildings to be shuttered. You assume because that’s what you hear that all the workers are working from home. You have no evidence to prove that. All jobs can’t be done from home.
I have been to DC many, many times as I have family there. To say the traffic is scaled back is a joke. Its non existent in downtown. Businesses are closed, most major agency buildings are not open. There are hardly even any tourists walking around. It should be a beehive.
IMO there’s no money to run the govt except on a shoestring. My BIL who retired two years ago as the number two guy at a major agency and for a time was acting director has been called back due to a severe shortage of workers. They now have him working the maximum number of allowed hours for a retired employee, flying all over the world constantly because he can walk in anywhere and do any job and they just pay him hourly. No benefits because he’s already retired with benefits. Hes just doing it because he’s bored and likes to travel.
There are many more things happening than meet the eye. Nobody seems to have any curiosity about the strange goings on in DC at the Whithouse, Capital building and odd motorcades. I seriously doubt its fantasy. And I think fairly soon we will all know why.