Posted on 05/04/2020 12:54:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The dash to overnight millennial celebrity can take abrupt detours.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist from the Bronx in New York City, was propelled from an anonymous existence as a bartender after her upset victory in 2018 straight onto magazine covers, late-night TV and the top of every partisan love-hate list in America. It made her perhaps the most exposed and fixated-on House freshman in history.
Today, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress - known simply as AOC - owns another distinction, this one far grimmer: She represents the nation’s most devastated hot zone of the coronavirus outbreak.
New York’s 14th Congressional District, which includes the working-class immigrant clusters of the Bronx and Queens, has had 19,200 coronavirus cases as of April 30, more than all of Manhattan, despite having almost 1 million fewer people. Residents of the neighborhoods of Corona and North Corona in her district - the names are an eerie coincidence - have had more coronavirus cases than any ZIP code in the country.
Ocasio-Cortez, 30, knows many who have died, as well as others who were sickened with the virus, or left hungry or jobless. She sends notes and makes calls to as many surviving family members as she can, serving as a kind of legislative first responder. But it can be hard to keep up.
“I’ll be on calls with service workers, front-line workers, and they’re the ones who have to pull bodies out of apartments,” she said, sitting in her empty and freezing campaign headquarters in the Bronx on a recent afternoon, surrounded by bags of donated food she was preparing to deliver to families in her district. The usually crowded streets were quiet, except for a steady assault of rain and sirens.
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Socialist Dissonancing
It’s all about MEEEEEE....
Two thumbs up
She should go home
No one really wants to go down the rabbit hole as to why her district is the most effected in the country....
You forgot 5.5... “I CAN’T UNDERSTAND A WORD SHE IS SAYING!”
“For AOC, ‘Existential Crises’ as Her District Becomes the Coronavirus Epicenter”
i’m guessing that there’s a pretty strong correlation between LIVs and suscepectabiltiy and contagion of C-19 ...
She wants to put everyone in America on the subway trains.
And where is she? You can BET she’s at her parent’s house in Weschester..... Westchester (the center of “down for the struggle” rich a@@holes who want nothing to do with the hoi polloi).
FRAUD. Thieving, lying, che-loving FRAUD!
You win the internet today.
LMAO. That graphic is epic.
She’s form posh westchester county, she aint no sista from da bronix. Shes full of sh## is what she is
What a ridiculous and OUTRAGEOUS insult to all first responders, paramedics, EMTs, firefighters and police.
"...hard to keep up" -- yeah, she's working 24 hour shifts five days a row saying "I feel your pain."
How many people would want this piece of shit dirtying their front stoop?
The author if this crap hasn't a clue about the real world.
#9: Hope someone remembers to notify my next of kin.
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