Posted on 04/03/2020 2:12:49 PM PDT by C19fan
Terrified by the coronavirus, Liz and Ken Frydman fled their apartment in Manhattan for the relative safety of their country house in Connecticut. Then the heating system failed, and they called the local fuel company. Oh, you guys are from New York, the manager said. The Frydmans assured him their family was virus-free. But the manager agreed to send someone only after they promised that the furnace could be accessed through a cellar door, without entering the main house. My workers are very leery of New Yorkers, he said. In the fickle calculus of what defines fashionable, New Yorkers have always been a constant, the seen-it-all sophisticates whose idea of normalcy includes riding an impossibly overcrowded subway and inhabiting a ridiculously overpriced apartment.
But now Americas largest city is pandemic central, and New Yorkers have become the face of the fearsome infection virtual pariahs whose potential arrival has spurred anxious demands for roadblocks up and down the East Coast.
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New Yorkers have been stigmatized for a long time.
We haven’t wanted them in Florida for years.
New Yorkers have been stigmatized for a long time.
We haven’t wanted them in Florida for years.
Light a candle call me in 2 weeks.
“virtual pariahs whose potential arrival has spurred anxious demands for roadblocks up and down the East Coast.”
If we are honest, much of the country already felt this way.
New York City!?!
"New York City?!?!?!"
Start spreadin’ the flus....
Florida should have set up Patriot batteries on it’s northern border 2 weeks ago!
That we should feel sorry for city slickers that panic and spread CV all over?
No sale.
Didn't Trump just [virtually] move there from there?
That’s because Andrew Dice Clay wasn’t a caricature.
He really was typical of seventies and eighties New Yorkers.
The same a-hole paper that has been ripping/mocking Trump voters for years is now worried about stigmatizing groups? F them.
Yup, the old Pace commercials were great...until Campbell’s Soup (based in NJ) bought them out
Now we are finding that they really are just a third world sh!thole.
We don’t want them in Western NY state either.
If we are honest, much of the country already felt this way.
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Exactly right. Its not so much about them spreading the virus, its more about them infecting other states with their destructive liberal disease.
We have the same problem with Californians here in Arizona
Boo hoo. They came here to Florida and we see how that worked out.
Outstanding.
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