For this virus, their job is like catching water with a strainer.
"Coronavirus bandits"? How about coronavirus mobs. If we are disgusted by two recent incidents, in Bed-Sty and in Crown Heights, of groups of young men attacking lone women for their sneakers and cell phones -- pummeling and stomping on them for good measure -- then wait until New York City schools are closed down and these kids have even more time on their hands.
In the good old days of the 1980s, kids were robbed, yes, all the time, for their jackets, for cash. These new attacks have a level of viciousness I do not remember.
Ten boys leaping onto a girl's face. Let's hope school stays in session.
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Maybe the Governor should put some unemployed people to work making masks that are appropriate for this virus?
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Maybe spread the scary news with an upbeat feeling and that will get them moving?
Tune of “Make ‘Em Laugh”
Make them masks
Make them masks
Don’t you know everyone wants a mask?
The Veep says that’s what everyone says
But someone, go tell the Prez.
Give them work, fill their void.
They have fun when they’re un-unemployed.
Hey, you can just do nothing and keep germs spreading fast.
And more folks staying home may put the growth in the past
So never give them time to see their cash will not last.
Make them masks.
Make them masks.
Make them masks.
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'Some progressive lawmakers said they were leery of relying on prison labor. “I’m concerned that we are asking the incarcerated to save the public from a health crisis, but won’t give them the dignity of a fair wage,” said State Senator Zellnor Myrie, a first-term Democrat from Brooklyn, who introduced a bill last year to guarantee prisoners a minimum wage $3 an hour.'
I dunno. Why shouldn't prisoners work? The rest of us do.
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Quite frankly, only a few weeks in and I'm already showing signs of Coronavirus fatigue.
It's in the news everyday, in every headline, on every page and it's rarely good.
Time to think of something else and that article on how neighborhoods got their names is just the ticket!
How else would you know those great Dutch names for some areas in Brooklyn?
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To quote you:
"In the city’s four other boroughs, where real estate pressure was less intense, some of the old neighborhood names are still in use."
Then you proceed to cite examples from only three boroughs.
Staten Island is apparently the "forgotten borough" to the NY Times as well as NY City and NY State government.
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@Ken
If you follow the link to the main article, you'll find the section on Staten Island names. Don't judge the coverage by NY Today's (necessarily) condensed version.
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@Ken
No offense. But anyone who has ever any spent time living on Staten Island (I have!), knows why it's the "forgotten borough".
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"No offense"? Really?
"My colleague at the hospital said that at times like this, we can either be a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer measures temperature and is reactive. A thermostat sets the temperature and is proactive. Thermostats impact how people feel and behave."
This is an extremely good quote.
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Only a small section of the Upper West Side was ever called "San Juan Hill." The UWS runs from 59th Street to 96th, or more recently, as high as 110th, and from Central Park West to the Hudson River. SJH extended from 59th to 65th and from Amsterdam to the Hudson -- basically, the area west of Time Warner Center and Lincoln Center. Similarly, the other neighborhoods in the NY Today article were never as large as described.
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