MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Staten Island Immigrants Pivot to Mask-making after Job Loss
By artappraiser on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 8:23pm |as some immigrants tend to say: ah America, what a country?
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https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/staten-island-immigrants-pivot-to-mask-making-after-job-loss.html
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Taiwan, what a country! (Such a perfect contrast to the above, da socialist vs. da capitalist health care)
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 11:55pm
Meanwhile mass graves on Hart Island...
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-seizes-drone-photojournalist-documenting...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 04/22/2020 - 1:53am
Yes I have been following that. I wonder what to make of the censorship attempts. Doesn't make sense. Because it's really been our "potter's field" all along for the unidentified dead and I don't see any reason to hide it from us unless 1) they are trying to hide numbers--in which case I question why, doesn't make sense, or 2) some clueless cop is trying to "protect" us from knowing how many people abandoned bodies because they didn't want to or couldn't pay for funeral services in this situation, or WHAT? Again, because people have been buried there all along, it's what it's for, it's a cemetery island:
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/22/2020 - 2:14am
p.s. dealing with all the dead bodies IS a major problem:
Although I have always thought funerals a very important ritual, I think about what I would do if I were in charge of dealing with a family member's death now, and there was no plot or crypt already purchased and maybe I have to be quarantined because I was with the person, then there;s the fact that people can't gather and there is no travel: just let go-get real, why spend any money on the body? Have a memorial service later, forget the body, as hard at that would be, what else is there to do? Cremation or abandonment to potter's field.
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/22/2020 - 8:55am