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the argument against the

artappraiser — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:53:15 +0000

In reply to (pdf) >The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City

the argument against the above, found retweeted by Yglesias (who is notoriously pro mass transit):

NYC is very dense and has a lot of public transit. But that's not the reason it became the most-severe epidemic in the U.S.
COVID-19 is worst in the most car-dependent, least urban parts of New York City and in some very hard-hit suburban counties.https://t.co/1VvrZLX3f1
— Salim Furth (@salimfurth) April 20, 2020

DT is playing a video

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:03:09 +0000

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DT is playing a video presentation at the virus presser to prove some point about him being awesome. This is how he wore his wives down pic.twitter.com/BVnunNIQxJ
— Chris Stein (@chrissteinplays) April 13, 2020

Donald after another 3 weeks

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:01:55 +0000

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Donald after another 3 weeks of daily press conferences: pic.twitter.com/tmJfm5DjOD
— Chris Stein (@chrissteinplays) April 14, 2020

Holy shit

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:00:17 +0000

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Holy shit
What people (and obviously doofus here) don't know is that there's a human vaccine that was knocked off the market by idiot anti vaxers. Over 200,000 cases a year. Dogs can get the vaccine though https://t.co/81WvyCmIog
— Chris Stein (@chrissteinplays) April 14, 2020

his latest made me laugh

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:35:59 +0000

In reply to I do like Chris Stein's feed.

his latest made me laugh

I do like Chris Stein's feed.

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:27:01 +0000

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I do like Chris Stein's feed. Life after punk? Expected something else.

pic.twitter.com/UYHUUptpBQ
— Chris Stein (@chrissteinplays) April 12, 2020

good example of Manhattan

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:28:13 +0000

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good example of Manhattan the ghosttown, this is going into midtown from the north on the West Side Highway, usually it is bumper to bumper here, going back a half mile, waiting for the light at the bottom to change.

NYC West Side Highway yesterday.
I feel like Will Smith w all this pic.twitter.com/Q9bCN9ZkVJ
— Chris Stein (@chrissteinplays) April 15, 2020

in comparison in the Bronx there are plenty of cars zipping around all day, probably the equivalent of a normal day in a flyover suburb or like August every year when lot of people are out of town. After dark the streets get pretty quiet, though, because everything is closed except a few 24 hr. bodegas and drug stores, there is nowhere to go.

Also I am right next to an exit of the major highway, I-84, the "Deegan" which goes north south from Manhattan, through the Bronx and all the way up to Albany, and can see it from my front door. There is still always traffic on it both ways, night and day but unlike the usual, no traffic slowdowns. Lifelong Bronxites are basically getting an idea of what it's like to live in the burbs in flyover, how quiet life can be.

Thanks.

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 21:48:18 +0000

In reply to (pdf) >The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City

Thanks.

It was already a hellish situation before coronavirus.

Mass transit is over here for the foreseeable future. Can't see how Manhattan doesn't die way back for a very long time.

People already posting pics of all the new skyscraper condos and labeling them "vanity towers" or odes to death. Nobody liked them to begin with, as they were built as investments for wealthy internationals, pied-a-terres empty most of the year. Thing is, people are needed to staff maintain and clean them. Those people need to take the subway from the boroughs and couldn't afford rent close by.

Manhattan right now is truly a ghost town, truly a prison island (I know only from pics, like others, haven't gone since lockdown, why bother, there's nothing there except open street parking). Anyone who has the ability to leave to a second home did so. I am surprised there have not been more robberies and looting type incidents. I am also surprised they still have stocked shelves and cashiers as those people would also have to take the subway, don't have vehicles.