is New York City dead?

Third consecutive day of record death toll in New York. Not sure why it plateaued at the weekend. Maybe people aren't allowed to die then.

there's the thing going around in other countries where the ppl doing the counting don't ingest numbers over the "weekend" so there's a bump or revision on monday and tuesday. prob the same thing here

You can't expect people to count corpses on Sundays - they've got to get to church.

ulysses I'll see your NYC and raise you one DC

respect to anybody who slogs it out there too!

with the obvious notable exception of the administration

I am suuuuure

On Thursday afternoon, Governor Andrew Cuomo assured the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who are struggling to file for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic that his administration is doing everything it can to streamline the process. "The system just crashed because of the volume, it's one of those unanticipated consequences of a situation like this," Cuomo told reporters. "We're working with Google to come up with an online mechanism that bypasses any phone certification. You have the phone certification because you want to make sure that people who are applying are also qualified."

But lawmakers and legal experts say that this emphasis on eligibility to prevent overpayments—with weekly phone check-ins and prohibitions on part-time work—is a huge reason for the bottleneck in the first place....

https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-unemployment-insurance-system-website-google-coronavirus

"working with google"???

who else

google’s partner verily was also supposed to get testing program up and running by early March and it has gone nowhere

At the daily briefings when they ask the unemployment system fail question I have little confidence in the woman to cuomo’s left who always answers, but I can’t tell exactly why. She seems nervous ? Admittedly I wouldn’t want that job

I wouldn’t want my job to bring me within 100 yards of Andrew Cuomo let alone 6 feet. He seems like a throwing-staplers kinda guy.

dickhead

BDB: "[Open streets] is not enforceable the way we need it to be and it disrupts other important things we need at the moment."

He urges New Yorkers to keep "bobbing and weaving."

I hate this guy.

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) April 10, 2020

So I read this, about the worst affected NYC zip codes and googled 11368 to find it's an area of Queens actually called Corona. Forgive my ignorance as a recent arrival but I honestly assumed someone had fiddled with Google Maps as a prank.

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/nyc-coronavirus-deaths-race-economic-divide/

rosie queen of corona

<3

Second place goes to the lemon ice king of corona obv

indeed he does rule

Cecil Taylor was from Corona, Queens, and named several albums after it:

https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/corona

https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/looking-berlin-version-corona

https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-of-corona

also where Louis Armstrong lived for decades
https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/

oh, I totally forgot about Corona, Queens.

it is where the Mets play (not Flushing)

i am a bad queens resident.

I wrote about the sirens https://t.co/geMSB6RHyU

— Samer (@Samer) April 10, 2020

in corona yo it's better to take than to receive - ju ju

No systems fail question today sadface lolz

every time I see this I feel like I am living in an entirely different city because I haven't consciously registered a single siren since this all started

(and there are several hospitals near me, my zip code is in the middle in terms of COVID cases; there's no reason why I wouldn't hear sirens, and yet I can't remember a single one)

Essential workers were waiting for the subway on a crowded platform. The NYPD told people to socially distance even though they literally couldn't.

One man told the police that they couldn't spread out and THIS is how they reacted.

Absolutely outrageous and dangerous. pic.twitter.com/1RbTDZ6tej

— Real Justice (@RealJusticePAC) April 10, 2020

Andy-Billy slapfight will never stop, this time about school year ending

https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-april-11-de-blasio-claps-helpers-bellevue

(and there are several hospitals near me, my zip code is in the middle in terms of COVID cases; there's no reason why I wouldn't hear sirens, and yet I can't remember a single one)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-help-healthcare-workers.html

“You see people donating pizza to hospitals over and over,” Father Merz remarked. “How much pizza does anybody really want? Who needs 3,000 granola bars?” Hospitals constantly dealing with triage don’t have the bandwidth to manage the random delivery of food at unscheduled hours. He and Mr. Sheehan devised a plan to circumvent this kind of inefficiency, to feed Woodhull’s staff and also try to address the pandemic’s secondary crisis, the explosion of unemployment within the city’s restaurant industry.

They went to Josh Cohen, owner of Jimmy’s Diner in Williamsburg — north Brooklyn is restaurant country — who had closed his place and boarded it up. He lent his kitchen. North Brooklyn Angels rehired the cooks and dishwashers that Mr. Cohen had to lay off when he was forced to shutter. These workers prepare meals for Woodhull to be delivered three times a day. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Sheehan and a band of retired firefighters deliver them, each driver taking enough food to feed 100 people at a time. The operation began with 300 meals a day, this week, then almost immediately ratcheted up to 450 as military medical personnel arrived to assist the efforts at Woodhull. The plan is to keep scaling up from there; an Episcopal church on Long Island is working on replicating the model.

In Sandy’s aftermath, Father Merz was among the organizers of some of the most prominent relief efforts, efforts drawing from strong networks and deep embeds in communities, of the kind later studied by the Department of Homeland Security for an understanding of how so much volunteer work succeeded where bureaucracy could not. Some of what he saw immediately after the storm baffled him. “We were doing Sandy stuff out of my church,’’ he said. “One day, it’s 5 o’clock and I’m sitting here drinking a Pabst and I see someone reeling in a Ping-Pong table. A Ping-Pong table! I’m like, Do you really think anyone needs a Ping-Pong table, in the Rockaways? Now?”

That quote was actually punctuated by a liberal number of profanities.

https://gothamist.com/news/move-over-pizza-rat-heres-rat-eating-rat

“They start killing and eating each other right inside that nest,” he noted. “When things just aren’t available, and they get hungry. It’s the nearest rat that’s smaller and weaker that will be the protein.”

And if a rat colony were to take the risky step in infringing on another rodent colony’s turf—the result of an exodus from a food-depleted part of the city—expect a battle to break out.

“They will not give up that territory without a big battle,” said Corrigan, who’s personally witnessed such beefs occurring between rodents well before the coronavirus crisis. “It’s like something out of Ben-Hur.”

https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/04/17/soft-serve-defiance-ice-cream-trucks-ply-brooklyn-streets

I've been hearing the jingle!

me too, across the street

Just heard the first one 15 minutes ago

1 in 62 people in New York City have tested positive for coronavirus, 1 in 235 people in New York City have been hospitalized for coronavirus, and 1 in 582 people in New York City have died from coronavirus, according to data from the city and the US Census Bureau.

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 21, 2020

devastating numbers, what a failure of leadership

mta death count is now over 80

jesus are those tweet numbers accurate?

1 in 582 dead would be about 12,000 people. So yes.

where are the cops?

https://gothamist.com/news/ultra-orthodox-hasidic-yeshivas-classes-brooklyn-coronavirus

"I think I've been specific about it," de Blasio says when asked the specific reasons why NYC is different from other cities that have closed streets to cars.

— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020

He says in California, drivers stop at intersections even when there's no light or stop sign, and they stop for people crossing mid-block. There's a different culture in NY. CA people - is this right?

— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) April 22, 2020

failure to yield to peds is ticket + points in CA (as of like 3 years ago) WHICH IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE. the difference is enforcement for whatever reason. the NYS should be fining drivers constantly.

the sad thing is this is a historic opportunity to make progress here and we're giving it up because we have an idiot mayor

It’s too bad he’s an idiot :(

yeah the thing we're absolutely having confirmed rn is that deblasio is remarkably flopsweaty in crisis

America’s Mayo

do you guys remember when this guy actually ran for president

he has neither rose nor shone