Five years later, NYC nowhere close to building COVID memorial: ‘It’s disgusting’

Nypost ^ | 03/29/2025 | By Georgia Worrell and Rich Calder

[ChicagoConservative27]

New York City was the world’s epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, but five years and 46,000 deaths later a memorial to the victims and their caregivers is nowhere close to being realized.

A City Council bill to study building a memorial on Hart Island — the Potter’s Field where thousands were buried during the peak of the pandemic – remains stalled a year after being introduced, and state legislation to fund memorials going up throughout the Empire State sits dormant in Senate and Assembly committees.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I'll never forget t🥳 DeBlasio eating that cheeseburger saying you can get one if you get the covid shot. 🙄🙄 I believe he was moaning.

[blackdog]

A monument to the flu that threw an election.

[BenLurkin]

Americans sense, some perhaps only unconsciously, that the lockdowns exited primarily to conceal the Democrat Party’s malicious policy goals.

[Responsibility2nd]

New York City was the world’s epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, but five years and 46,000 deaths later a memorial to the victims and their caregivers is nowhere close to being realized.

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So what? Will taxpayers be footing the bill to memorialize a global scam?

Drop the plans.

[Lizavetta]

I don’t want a memorial. I want full acknowledgment of what the government did wrong and jail time/fines for those who hid negative vaccine info.

[DouglasKC]

Let me guess...there’s been a lot of money collected.

[beef]

I want a full and impartial investigation into where this virus came from. I, for one, do not believe the “wet market” theory.

[lightman]

The Coup flu.

[lightman]

So the monument will be a golden syringe with a height of 60 cubits?

[Tennessee Nana]

Good dont need one...

[jmaroneps37]

The rodents didn’t mean that it was just show business.

[blackdog]

Amazingly Failing in your observations. (A)mazingly (F)ailing.

[SaxxonWoods]

How many new headstones for crime victims? Those should count for something.

[simpson96]

Something seems a bit odd about these... Just slapping a name on something, where there's nothing in sight re: naming victims, or showing/explaining what Covid even was.

[lastchance]

I love when common sense sneaks in an appearance.

[Wallace T.]

Please explain why there needs to be a memorial to people who died of a disease. I doubt that New York City has a memorial to the 35,000 people who died due to the 1918 influenza outbreak. I see the need to honor the military, police, and first responders, but where is the need to memorialize ordinary citizens?

[hanamizu]

I was unaware that there were seals in Ohio. Do they live in Lake Erie?

[hal ogen]

Instead, NY should spend money on prosecuting all the murderers who promoted this fraudulent “epidemic” and prosecuting those medical losers who promoted it and their murderous “treatment” of patients.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“New York City was the world’s epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic,” <-—this is BS. New York had nothing more or less to do with COVID than any other place, other than CONCENTRATED governmental blunder.

Covid was a world-wide disaster, akin, perhaps, to a world war, and made far worse by government missteps. There’s plenty of argument that COVID was a trial run for a CCP attack on the rest of the world.

There’s no more reason to erect a COVID monument than to erect a new monument to Robt E. Lee or perhaps the worst slaveowner in the South, and we have assiduously removed all those monuments.

[Captain Walker]

There needs to be an acknowledgement that the “Greatest City in the World” embraced Jim Crow; the meaningless “never again” is not required.