Posted on 11/27/2022 6:05:52 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The District is still stuck in a pandemic funk. Most days, the city, especially the core downtown blocks around the White House, looks more like a ghost town than a vibrant capital city. Before the coronavirus shutdown, visitors to Washington were often in awe of how many cranes punctuated the skyline. Now, it’s hard to find a building without a “for rent” sign. Coffee shops and restaurants are serving limited hours, if they’re open at all.
Hopes were high for a revival this fall. Schools reopened. Covid cases were way down. Businesses were calling their employees back. But the city has remained at about 45 percent of workers back in the office since Labor Day. That’s worse than New York, Chicago, Houston and the national average for major cities, according to data from the security firm Kastle Systems.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Just leave it comatose. Our country will be better off for it.
The pandemic is an excuse for the systemic failures of DC and other Democrat controlled cities to properly protect their citizens while actively encouraging felonious behavior.
A 1 MT explosion would help, assuming it’s a Tuesday and Congress is in session. About 10:00 am.
And DC is about to pass “criminal justice” reforms. That will solve the problem. /s
Keep pissing off Putin and you’ll be able to start from a clean slate.
Darn, how sad.
Love the comments posted already. Sorry, but couldn’t bring myself to go to the link and give the WP an undeserved hit.
I’m heading to DC tomorrow.
I won’t be entertaining downtown for certain.
In fact, my trip to DC inner-sanctum will be brief since I can’t wear a hazmat suit...
Should be easier to get around unless you are driving on the Beltway.
Is all of DC working from home? /sarcasm
The newspaper owned by Amazon/Bezos is worried about brick and mortar businesses? Okay.....
That means the lockdown was a tremendous success.
Well they could have federal workers go back to the office like much of the rest of the world.
Yeah, I want that activity number a lot lower, for all our sakes.
Why? They don't want to have to go to work? And their daddy Joe said it's okay for them to stay at home and collect their paychecks.
I had to work in DC a couple of weeks ago. I stayed at Hotel Washington across from the US Treasury building and around the corner from the White House.
The urban campers had set up tents along the sidewalks.
I hopefully will not have to go back often.
The authors are trying to make us feel SORRY for D.C. that it is no longer an insular, insulated, EXPENSIVE place and that people who work for the government cannot be so easily schmoozed.
I, along with the 99.99% of Americans who do not work inside the beltway, think this is a GOOD thing that strengthens the fabric of the country.
I pray it is permanent.
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