The unspoken truth is that in some cities (including NYC) fear of the Simbas is much stronger than fear of the Red Chinese virus. A friend that goes into NYC occasionally as part of a rotation staffing offices describes the scenes between the train station and his office; just disgusting and nothing that would have been allowed before (with junkies and such).
This virus just drove home what many already knew: Many cities had outlived their usefulness. Before the home offices of today, suburban office parks were taking a lot of jobs from cities.
Cities can be great places if the mayors are determined to keep them safe with tough law and order policies.
Otherwise—they turn into dangerous wastelands.
NYC was such a dynamic playground and concentrated land of opportunity for the young, however, that they had ever more looking to move and stay there until DeBlasio’s malevolent influence started the Cities slow decline.
Then their apparently intentional Covid mismanagement and most recently support for rioting, looting and violence over law and order pand open commerce put the City’s collapse into overdrive.
Hmmmn. Simbra’s and Simbro’s o’ de Hood?