is New York City dead?

my mom, in pennsylvania, has texted me about admiring cuomo

(i told her to fuck off that he's better than trump, but good lord what a low bar. give me inslee)

they saw him on the television

(Rudy was worse than BdB, you clown)

i know it goes without saying, but helena bonham fucking christ essentially any random person off the street would be better at this than trump, but

DeBlasio said on TV tonight that April's gonna be worse than March, and May might be worse than April.

well, i mean it's good they are finally being realistic.

Rhode Island Police to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/rhode-island-police-to-hunt-down-new-yorkers-seeking-refuge

I wonder when the doctor will tell me coming for chemo is too risky

I've seen the map of cases by neighborhood, and religious funamentalism is a helluva drug

Have other Brooklyn ppl had the Mandatory Wiring/Equipment service call I just had from V3riz0n? It was on, then it was off, then I found out it was definitely on when they arrived. I need my phone and web badly, so I feel like I had no choice but to let em in. I wonder at what point they'll suspend these visits?

This is from this morning. I know certain jobs like first responders/ medical staff/ grocery store employees/ etc. have to get to work but NYC, what are we doing with packed platforms??? #whatisnewyork pic.twitter.com/V5ufNHoeQC

— WhatIsNewYork (@whatisny) March 27, 2020

They’ve cut service due to sick conductors and lack or ridership. Really cool. Maybe nows not the best time for that?

NYT (shut down the fucking park gatherings and the goddamn houses of worship, for fuck's sake):

New York City officials are expected to decide this weekend whether to impose $500 fines on residents flouting social-distancing rules during the coronavirus outbreak by gathering in large groups at parks and ignoring police orders to disperse.

Mr. de Blasio also said that a few houses of worship were continuing to hold religious services and that they risked fines or having their buildings permanently closed if the police found congregations in them this weekend.

The mayor also said he was working with state officials to freeze rents this year for 2.3 million tenants in rent-stabilized apartments.

Officials said late Friday that the number of coronavirus cases in New York City had climbed above 26,000. The city’s death toll was 450.

At least 500 New York Police Department employees have tested positive, and more than 4,000 officers — about 11 percent of the uniformed work force — were out sick on Friday, officials said.

In a force of 36,000 officers, that translates to an infection rate of about one in every 80 officers, or about 1.2 percent.

Officials also reported the first death of an officer in the department: Detective Cedric Dixon, who worked in the 32nd Precinct, in Harlem, and had worked for the department for 23 years.”

I hear hundreds of NYPD have tested positive for the Coronavirus.

When the funerals begin they should bury them in these shirts. pic.twitter.com/dJuPveVbNH

— William Gillis 🏴 (@rechelon) March 27, 2020

This RI thing is so weird.

the city should've been endorsing universal masking (even handmade) like weeks ago.

RI and Kansas now have stay-at-home orders

If you have health insurance in New York, are you covered in RI if you’re hospitalized for coronavirus? Or in NJ? More generally, is health insurance in one American locale usable in others? Despite living in the USA for almost 40 years I don’t know, because I never lived near a state border and didn’t travel much domestically. I remember that things cost more “out of zone”, but I don’t know what zones are.

i believe so, yes. but regular/scheduled things would likely be 'out of network', which would be more expensive (but probably still covered to a certain extent)

Oh God, we are going to be reading a lot of smug articles like this from now on: "Why I Am Not Leaving New York"

https://www.vogue.com/article/why-i-am-not-leaving-new-york

I can think of better reasons not to leave New York than an insufferable feeling of being a Real New Yorker TM. Think of all the people still working in supermarkets, transit, etc that can't leave because their jobs are here and they are working with the public everyday. Or people who don't have the option of a second house to escape to. Or people who don't have the money to go somewhere else. Reasons based on practicality and not snobbery.

also leaving is nonsensical on its face. you risk spreading the virus elsewhere, for what?

People think they haven't got it yet, so leave to where they think they're less likely to get it. A gamble, possibly stupid, definitely selfish.

self-preservation is an understandable instinct

I didn't leave bcz I couldn't, really

yeah, people will need to check about their insurance if they go out of state. I learned that the hard way that if you have blue cross blue shield for ex. there are like a thousand versions of it.

or they might not take the obamacare version of it.

My insurance card says right on the back "This member has limited benefits [read: go fuck yourself] outside of New Jersey."

the parks really need to stay open, people just need to be fucking smarter.
putting cops out by the entrances appears to be breaking up groups if my last visit is any indication.

New: NYPD has nearly 700 positive coronavirus cases; about 12% of the workforce out sick

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) March 29, 2020

cops are kind of the sweet spot for traveling around and interacting with lots of people while being totally cavalier about taking any precautions.

Also believing they are gods/invincible

In a meeting with the shelter’s director and staff, Ward even asked if residents could get gloves and masks.

“They just said it wasn’t in the budget,” he said. “After they said that, I had to shut my mouth because now I know they don't care.”

https://gothamist.com/news/living-20-room-nyc-homeless-face-high-risk-coronavirus-spread-congregate-shelters

hopefully the people making masks in nyc will distribute them to the centers and on the street.

https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/mount-sinai-builds-central-park-coronavirus-field-hospital

https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-april-fools-day-prank-riles-nypd
Comedy!

I have been getting mail and parcels w/out interruption. Youse?

https://gothamist.com/news/mail-coronavirus-staffing-postal-service-covid-19

people who play april fools prank, even before this, are the worst.

mail seems to be fine but no one sends me shit and i dont order much online

i get a lot of packages, no problems as of yet

Navy ship is useless thus far... NYT:

Such were the expectations for the Navy hospital ship U.S.N.S. Comfort that when it chugged into New York Harbor this week, throngs of people, momentarily forgetting the strictures of social distancing, crammed together along Manhattan’s west side to catch a glimpse.

On Thursday, though, the huge white vessel, which officials had promised would bring succor to a city on the brink, sat mostly empty, infuriating executives at local hospitals. The ship’s 1,000 beds are largely unused, its 1,200-member crew mostly idle.

Only 20 patients had been transferred to the ship, officials said, even as New York hospitals struggled to find space for the thousands infected with the coronavirus. Another Navy hospital ship, the U.S.N.S. Mercy, docked in Los Angeles, has had a total of 15 patients, officials said.

“If I’m blunt about it, it’s a joke,” said Michael Dowling, the head of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system. “Everyone can say, ‘Thank you for putting up these wonderful places and opening up these cavernous halls.’ But we’re in a crisis here, we’re in a battlefield.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-usns-comfort.html

terrorists have already won
https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/nyc-declares-war-on-rim-jobs-in-graphic-health-department-memo

i can tell who doesn't read their eating ass newsletter in a timely manner.

look it's a difficult time for all of us

and it really shows.

no need to brown nose the establishment

https://gothamist.com/food/free-grab-and-go-meals-now-available-anyone-need

My dad was a Queens paramedic long ago and still listens to the dispatch radio as background noise. He was wondering last night why he heard dispatchers start spelling out the names of streets. Mystery solved https://t.co/iHkSaOHyPP

— sethmpk (@sethmpk) April 4, 2020

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bill-de-blasio-rejects-claim-u-s-knew-asymptomatic-people-could-spread-the-virus-only-learned-that-in-the-last-48-hours/"> https://www.mediaite.com/news/bill-de-blasio-rejects-claim-u-s-knew-asymptomatic-people-could-spread-the-virus-only-learned-that-in-the-last-48-hours/

gah not good at zing

fundamentalist maniacs

https://gothamist.com/news/hasidic-funerals-crowds-ultra-orthodox-neighborhoods