Posted on 05/01/2020 2:54:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan
If New York City doesn’t recover quickly and robustly from Covid-19, April 30, 2020 will mark the inflection point: when the city and state, afflicted with a historic crisis, decided to give up. That day, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York’s subway system will begin shutting down overnight, from 1 A.M. to 5 A.M. The shutdown is indefinite, so there’s a real chance that New York’s identity as the “the city that never sleeps” is gone. The ostensible reasons for the shutdown are public health and public safety. Earlier this week, Cuomo called conditions on the subway “disgusting.” The state and city want the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority to shutter the subway system so that it can deep-clean stations and trains. “During this overnight period, the MTA will intensify disinfecting operations, cleaning its fleet of thousands of cars and buses every night, and further testing new and innovative cleaning solutions, including UV, antimicrobials and electrostatic disinfectants,” the authority said. The city also wants these closures to discourage the estimated 2,000 people— mostly adult men—who regularly use the subway system as overnight shelter. Though it’s hard to get a firm count during a pandemic, this number is likely higher now, as homeless individuals’ usual refuge points—public libraries and fast-food seating areas—are closed.
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Rhetorical question....
I’m glad to be among those for whom NYC never had any appeal.
(or any city for that matter)
From packed subways to packed elevators. What could have possibly gone wrong?
Packed nursing homes.
I’m glad I visited NYC in the days when it was still a fun place to go.
I don’t have an answer for the mass transit issue, except I know mass transit is always going to be a disaster in waiting.
I’ve told this story before but it’s so funny I’ll tell it again:
At UD I had a colleague who was a self-avowed “soft” socialist in the “East German” mode. (I know, I know-—don’t get me started). He truly waxed romantic about East German socialism. Voted full lefty here, even though he thought they were a bunch of “corporate stooges.”
But we could put politics aside and talk history, and a few other subjects. Once he came from downtown Dayton to visit me in the suburbs. He took the RTA bus. It broke down. They sent a second bus. It broke down. I’m still not sure how he got to my house.
COVID 19 patients were sent to NURSING HOMES instead of the nearly empty makeshift COVID 19 DESIGNATED HOSPITALS.
It has always been about POWER, GET TRUMP and receiving FEDERAL DOLLARS per dead person.
EVIL.
Guess he was a big fan of Erich Honecker and the STASI huh?
Me too, right? I’ve been to Fox studios many times, also to Penguin Headquarters. “Fox and Friends” always put me up in what I’m sure they thought was a “nice” hotel: it was a room as small as my office. Everything crammed on top of everything else. Had to always go “out” to eat anything. Noise constantly, even at night as the garbage guys did their pickups. Sirens. People yelling.
If I took a cab, it cost a fortune, and the streets were jammed with delivery trucks, constant workmen working on something. Hated it.
I did get to go in the green room with three Miss USA contestants though! (Wow, were they . . . SKINNY. I mean, not just svelte, but rail thin).
Honestly, he didn’t think they were “that bad.” “Oh, you should see family socialism . . . .”
Uh huh.
We call it “starvation.”
I just got my check! $1200.00. Trump’s name is on the check, NOT his signature.
I’m just glad MY NAME is on the check.
I have SS direct deposit to my Direct X debit card account. I have been waiting to see a deposit to that account of $1200.00. Instead they sent me a paper check in the mail.
New York will rebound, meaner, nastier and better than ever.
New York is a sewer. Let it wallow in it’s own dung.
Fence it off, then open it up.
Yes.
NYC is obsolete.
I had an experience like that flying into San Diego.
The airline sent my luggage to Seattle (I guess because they are both on the west coast and start with the letter “S”).
The airline put me up at a YMCA in a closet that had a window overlooking hookers in latex skirts.
I’ve been there twice, and both times it was all the things you mentioned, minus the skinny Misses ;-)
The crowds, the noise, the dirt, the expense - no thanks !
A visit is understandable if one has a sufficiently lucrative business reason for going and then getting the hell out asap.
But anyone who wants it can surely have my share of it .. some folks are wired that away I suppose.
We may not have Broadway out here in PAlabama, but it’s quiet and most folks are still sane.
After this settles down some, watch the mass exodus of the elite “Agenda 21/30 - Green New Deal” advocates from the Progressive Ghetto deathtraps to the suburban/rural areas.
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