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I heard a lot of businesses shut down - Wholesalers being one of them.
Hard to recover when Mr. Dictator(BLM supporter Deblasio) - Made everyone close their doors, Plus The Restaurants, bars, etc.
But here is the kicker DeBlassio, remember he originally wanted to keep the schools open. I had several friends from back east who work as teachers in NYC and most were planning to sick out because they didn't want to subject themselves to the risk. Remember this was last March when most cases we heard about were the serious ones.
Bob, in your expert opinion, how many excess deaths would be an acceptable number to keep businesses open in NYC?
I'd leave the question to the analysts who determine it every day, regarding auto safety features, airline safety features, etc. They calculate the acceptable cost to save 1, and we could then answer the question as the GDP losses we can measure.
No one sane accepts any cost for any savings. If we did, we'd live as the first humans did, with no forms of transit beyond our feet. It was far safer before the car was invented. we lost 42,000 in 2020, on pace to lose about what covid cost every decade, and pre-existing conditions were a huge covid factor, but not an auto death factor. 25-44 was the largest group by age to die in car crashes. Want to ban cars, mkpunk?
But here is the kicker DeBlassio, remember he originally wanted to keep the schools open. I had several friends from back east who work as teachers in NYC and most were planning to sick out because they didn't want to subject themselves to the risk. Remember this was last March when most cases we heard about were the serious ones.
He did, as usual, cave in to the unions. Backbone is not his strong suit.
He did, as usual, cave in to the unions. Backbone is not his strong suit.
He did it before in 2014 with a snowstorm and Al Roker took him to task over it. de Blassio had the schools stay open because he followed the National Weather Service model in February 2014. On that day, it was heavier than projections and less than half of the students showed up. Couldn't find anything about staff...
de Blassio is always think about the children and often it comes off as short sighted. I mean should a teacher died in a car crash in the snow storm, how do you replace them? Had COVID taken the lives of many teachers and gotten students sick, how do you respond to that? It is a tough spot to be in because on both he was wrong no matter what.
There is no magical reset to an artificial, government mandated lockdown. NYC will never rebound to its pre shutdown economy.
If you're in New Jersey, you should know better than to bet against NYC. We were, after all, the only major city attacked on 9/11.
Of course we lost more. And anyone who thinks we should have recovered and rebounded already, when much of the country is still masked, with new covid cases still continuing, is very naive.
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