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FLEEING THE CITY: New Yorkers Temporarily Escaping COVID-19
Smartphone location data have found that hundreds of thousands of New York City residents left the city as it became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. Approximately five percent of the city population has left since the crisis began, roughly around 420,000 people.
New Yorkers primarily fled to Long Island, Upstate, or counties in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. A large number went further, most noticeably to South Florida. Not surprisingly, it was the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods that saw the largest decrease in residential population.
This map created by geospatial analysis company Descartes Labs for the New York Times, depicts the share of people who lived in New York City over a two-week period in February 2020 but who were not living there on May 1, 2020.
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NEVER FORGET ABOUT 2020 LOCKDOWNS.
The more I think about the 2020 “lockdowns” the angrier I get. Hospitals were nowhere near being overwhelmed. The course of the virus was not altered. People giddily lined up for their to-go cocktails, placed their grocery delivery orders, and thought they were saving lives.
Many people I know permanently lost their businesses, careers, bands, self-respect, health, life savings. Some committed suicide. Some have children now years behind in their education. All for nothing. So the upper middle class could LARP “pandemic” and bake bread at home.
The service industry lost their shirts, or continued to work serving those who thought they were morally superior because they can send emails from a laptop on the couch. “Safety” became contingent on the neuroticisms of the most sheltered. The working class kneeled.
Primary care and the basic health needs of society dropped off a cliff. ERs became family doctors as family doctors insisted they only see patients virtually. Covid myopia buried all rationality. And what we got is a society now coming apart at the seams.
I’ll never forget the shoddy journalism, corporatism, bogus Government programs, decisive separation of people and political spectrums, and the politics that went into the pandemic to make it happen.
It was all theater.
