NYPD unfortunately not going to touch this with a 10 ft. pole now

By artappraiser on Fri, 06/12/2020 - 9:24pm |

Florida beaches, meet New York open-air bars. https://t.co/ur88cXFkFg
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) June 13, 2020

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from New York City Alcohol and Drinking Laws Guide

In New York City, it is illegal to drink alcoholic beverages in public places; this also includes possession of an open container of alcohol. This is true whether or not you are of legal age and applies to drinking alcohol or alcoholic beverages in parks, on streets, or in any public place. As of March 2016, police will not arrest offenders in Manhattan found with an open container, but they can still issue a summons, or a ticket. This change in enforcement only applies in Manhattan, so in the other boroughs, they will not necessarily be so lenient.

And you can still be arrested, even in Manhattan, but it's less likely that they will arrest you just for opening a bottle of wine in the park.

by artappraiser on Fri, 06/12/2020 - 9:29pm

Hey kids:

Israel's decision to reopen schools has backfired. More than 100 new infections of covid-19 were linked to a single school in Jerusalem https://t.co/Vjtdt25w1I
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 12:45am

Rumor has it:

This country is fucked. People have grown bored of COVID. https://t.co/eUp0vztZO5 pic.twitter.com/iOWBepDJgl
— Drew Savicki (@SenhorRaposa) June 13, 2020

"fuck the elderly, give me the playgrounds back".
— Drew Savicki (@SenhorRaposa) June 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 1:04am

Look at fully covered women in scorching Iran and Saudi Arabia, put on your tiny thin mask, and get on with your day, bunch of weak effing punks.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 1:22am

I'm worried that if there is another big surge in the NE, health care workers, especially hospital workers, will just quit or go on strike. They're burned out and there's not enough of them.

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 2:44am

My comment obviously meaning Ppl casually wearing, not line workers.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 7:23am

? Am confused by what you say. I was talking about that if there are not enough casual wearers then we will have another wave of infection that health care workers may not be able to handle. No one has presented the wearing of masks as a cure, it is simply a way of flattening the curve so that a health care system can deal with infection level over time. And hopefully give time to learn better treatment and a cure even further down the road.

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 4:54pm

My comment was re: people just running around not wearing masks that would, yes, flatten the curve, perhaps super drastically, vs. people in tough jobs where wearing a mask over 10-12 hours working can be exhausting.
But anyway, it's such an obvious way to slow the spread, and yet so many are resisting.
Saw yesterday that they're withdrawing the phrase "avoid it like the plague", since oddly a lot of people don't seem to want to avoid plagues.
At the same time, I doubt that walking around properly distanced without a mask is much of a danger, but I'm sure someone can create dangerous exceptions to this.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 5:07pm

it's basically been confirmed that the cohorts of the above in Asia were responsible for "most outbreak clusters"

14) BOTTOMLINE: Now months later, we have indeed confirmed from Japanese contact tracing of clusters, that most outbreak clusters all started from primary cases who were YOUNG, many NO SYMPTOMS, and in all the hotspots that public health officials have been warning about...
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 10:39pm

The Governor:

We have received 25,000 complaints of reopening violations.

Bars or restaurants that violate the law can lose their liquor license.

People with open containers in the street can be fined.

Police & protesters not wearing masks can be fined.

Local gov't must enforce the law.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 14, 2020

The violation complaints are predominantly from Manhattan & the Hamptons. Lots of violations of social distancing, parties in the street, restaurants and bars ignoring laws.

Enforce the law or there will be state action.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/14/2020 - 9:26pm

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