is New York City dead?

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

are there actually more sirens or am i imagining that

there is less noise in general on the streets so the sirens stand out

like right now i am hearing a baby crying from--seemingly--an apartment on the other side of 9th avenue

usually that wouldn't happen

treesh otm

I’m pretty into this clapping thing

Ugh

i've concluded the roar of motorcycles for 18 hours a day on my epically long street is just ONE guy, so I need to mess with his brake fluid.

Probably Cuomo

clapping in the bar [Started by calstars in April 2020]

several points of note:

How to get your groceries (being regularly updated) - https://ny.eater.com/2020/4/6/21208622/nyc-grocery-delivery-guide-coronavirus

Some are small scale and involve bicycles or hand carts to circumscribed neighborhoods; others are massive operations with fleets of trucks that cover the city and parts of New Jersey and Westchester, or involve shipping by FedEx or UPS. None are cheap, but some offer a few bargains. The emphasis may be on premium groceries and boutique produce, but on the positive side, some make closer connections between farmers and the food consuming public. And remember to tip — delivery and grocery store workers are among the most vulnerable populations in the city right now.

"COME DOWN THE BLOCK DE BLASIO"
https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/hecklers-demand-test-treatment-from-de-blasio-at-bronx-hospital/

Full absenteeism voting for June state primaries is a go, you fucking well know we would've voted for Bernie you fucking shitheels
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2020/04/09/coronavirus-in-nyc-update-new-yorkers-can-now-vote-absentee-in-june-primaries

Moe Albanese of Albanese Meats is dead to COVID, that dude was a local legend
https://ny.eater.com/2020/4/9/21214819/moe-albanese-butcher-little-italy-coronavirus

so fucked we haven't even voted yet.

who gives a shit what new yorkers think, we're not real americans

except we make the media and house the statue of liberty and rebuilt (slowly) after 9/11 and survived Sandy and are slogging through a pandemic and create the culture and embody the melting pot and symbolize the first thoughts of america to most of the world but hey fuggit

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.