{"id":1494,"date":"2020-08-05T00:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2020-08-05T01:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:24:59","slug":"safety-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/safety-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"“Safety” theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you go to a restaurant in Gotham right now, you might be subjected to a temperature check. It\u2019s no big deal, it takes a second \u2014 but it\u2019s pointless; plenty of COVID-positive people don\u2019t have a fever. So why do we do it? It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Take masks. It\u00a0makes sense to wear masks\u00a0inside businesses or for any close contact with strangers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No it doesn’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But why are people wearing them outside, when they\u2019re not near anybody? Neighborhood message boards across the country are filled with complaints like: \u201cI saw a bicyclist without a mask today!\u201d<\/p>\n

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, \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask.\u201d Now he\u2019s gung-ho, yet his mask instruction is very convoluted.<\/p>\n

He wore a mask to throw out the first pitch at the Opening Day game at Nationals Park \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/em> standards<\/a> 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<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The governor of New York has begged the city\u2019s wealthy, who fled the coronavirus outbreak, to return and help it recover.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are in their Hamptons homes, or Hudson Valley or Connecticut. I talk to them literally every day. I say. \u2018When are you coming back? I\u2019ll buy you a drink. I\u2019ll cook,\u2019 \u201c Mr Cuomo told MSNBC, naming popular getaways for the rich.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers have proposed a wealth tax targeting the city’s 100 billionaires to help fill a $30 billion (\u00a323bn) budget shortfall created by the Covid-19 crisis.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Instead, he wants the federal government and New York’s congressional representatives to send billions of dollars in aid.\u00a0\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LOLGF<\/em>, asshole-eyes.<\/p>\n

Update!<\/span class=\"ud\"> What the hell, more NYC hilarity<\/a>.
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.@NYCMayor<\/a>: I\u2019m laying off 22,000 city workers if the feds don\u2019t give us a bailout pic.twitter.com\/iWkSh4N8yJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n