is New York City dead?

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.

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/