Odd how closely it parallels our farcical post-9/11 Security Theater, innit? Why, it’s almost as if the goobermint only has one tune in the whole hymn book.
If you go to a restaurant in Gotham right now, you might be subjected to a temperature check. It’s no big deal, it takes a second — but it’s pointless; plenty of COVID-positive people don’t have a fever. So why do we do it? It’s part of a growing trend of COVID-19 security theater. We do things that have no bearing on our actual safety but that make us feel safe.
Take masks. It makes sense to wear masks inside businesses or for any close contact with strangers.
But why are people wearing them outside, when they’re not near anybody? Neighborhood message boards across the country are filled with complaints like: “I saw a bicyclist without a mask today!”
The problem is messaging from the top. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coronavirus guru, is the man we all look to for direction. In March, he said, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Now he’s gung-ho, yet his mask instruction is very convoluted.
He wore a mask to throw out the first pitch at the Opening Day game at Nationals Park — while standing more than 60 feet away from the nearest person. Then he sat down in the stands with his wife and friend, and they all took turns wearing and removing their masks.
In restaurants in New York, you must wear a mask to your seat. But then you take it off to eat, drink and talk, which is clearly where all the danger lies.
Not to worry; once the dwindling few NYC restaurants still hanging on by their fingernails are driven under too, that little conundrum pretty much solves itself. Of course, the, ummm, flexible standards the “elite” hold themselves to are yet another indicator that this whole shamdemic thing is just so much smoke. But speaking of NYC, there IS some truly hilarious news:
The governor of New York has begged the city’s wealthy, who fled the coronavirus outbreak, to return and help it recover.
Andrew Cuomo said he was extremely worried about New York City weathering the Covid-19 aftermath if too many of the well-heeled taxpayers who fled to second homes decide there is no need to move back.
“They are in their Hamptons homes, or Hudson Valley or Connecticut. I talk to them literally every day. I say. ‘When are you coming back? I’ll buy you a drink. I’ll cook,’ “ Mr Cuomo told MSNBC, naming popular getaways for the rich.
Lawmakers have proposed a wealth tax targeting the city’s 100 billionaires to help fill a $30 billion (£23bn) budget shortfall created by the Covid-19 crisis.
However, Mr Cuomo, a Democrat, said he could not support greater taxes on the ultra-wealthy as rich people already have one foot out of New York City and he fears they will leave for good if their taxes go up.
Instead, he wants the federal government and New York’s congressional representatives to send billions of dollars in aid.
LOLGF, asshole-eyes.
Update! What the hell, more NYC hilarity.
.@NYCMayor: I’m laying off 22,000 city workers if the feds don’t give us a bailout pic.twitter.com/iWkSh4N8yJ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 4, 2020
Aww gee, my heart is just breaking over here.
Killer Cuomo. That’s who he is, a cold blooded killer of old folks.
I’ve been trying to get “Granny Killer Cuomo” trending, but no luck so far.
As for his “threat” — BWAHAHAHAHAHA! What do you call 22,000 laid of NYC government workers? A good start!
No bailouts for the blue hellholes. They regularly claim that they subsidize all us poor, un-edumacated red state hillbillies, yet somehow they always have multi-billion dollar budget gaps that need federal tax dollars to fill. Cut the parasites oFf to starve.
Ditto!
I’m partial to Pol Pot Cuomo as he sent sick people into the Killing
FieldsHomes.I do hope to God Trump tells NY in general and NYC in particular to bend over, put their heads between their legs and kiss their own asses.
Fuckem both and all, including the morons that voted repeatedly to put them in office.
They can all eat shit and die.
Let NYC sink.
Let NYS sink.
During stock boom years, NYC sometimes sent more money to the state than it got back, because of high taxes on bonuses and capital gains. Most years, NYC is a tax sink for the state. I don’t know the numbers regarding federal taxes and handouts but suspect it’s about the same.
More broadly, if the entire is suffering because of the Election Flu (or more accurately because of shutdowns and house arrests justified by the Election Flu), why should NYC and Chicago and Minneapolis get priority for the bailout money? Every city hurting, so each should get a pro rata share of any bailout.
Election Flu. I like that. I’m going to use it as in;
The Election Flu Response is Killing US.
“Election Flu” is a good one. I think I’ll use it as well.