http://millennialbachelor.com/2021/10/26/how-i-saw-nyc-change-throughout-the-pandemic/
How I saw NYC change throughout the pandemic
26 Oct 2021The Millennial
March 2020, or around that time as I like to imagine it, it was like a
normal night. I was in West Village having drinks with a girl I was
casually seeing as her brother and his friends were in town. As bad as
it sounds looking back at it now, so many people joked about COVID-19
and how it wont be serious. Then we all got an announcement that
weekend or around that time to stay at home, we would be working remote.
For a while, it seemed like no one wanted to be back in the office since >well, working remote has its perks.
My friend and I walked around, may have been April or May of that year,
and we could not believe it. NYC, Manhattan itself, the bumbling haven
of activity was now a ghost town. Rats became more prominent on the
streets as there was less foot traffic and the drugged out homeless
stuck out more. Never would anyone have thought that a city like NYC
would be turned into a ghost town, it was something else entirely. All
of the city had gone into lockdown. As the spring turned to summer,
racial tensions boiled over due to the murder of George Floyd.
I watched as once lively apartment buildings went empty in neighborhoods
that used to be full of energy. Even my own building saw a change as
Friday nights and Saturdays were drop dead silent. You heard almost
nothing anymore and rows of stores were now boarded up. Yet I stayed,
the truth is that very few cities can rival what NYC offers to a single
guy in his twenties.
Tensions got bad as cop cars in Union Square were set on fire and I
lived through it, seeing the riots happen all over the city. Some were >peaceful protests but as night came, those turned violent. Meanwhile,
the city was on lockdown, almost all of the bars closed and nightlife
dead. The parties still went on at the apartments and in some
underground destinations where you had to have an invite but it was
nothing like when the city was open. Most people with the means to do so
left NYC and opted to get out of the state entirely. I dont know much
of the city outside of Manhattan, for all I know, Queens and other
boroughs are the same.
I loved working remotely and not having to go to the office but it was >something else as the city had changed. The lockdowns, fear of COVID, >tensions boiling over, and restriction after restriction had changed
NYC. I dont mean change as in your favorite spots being closed, I mean >change as in change the character of the city and of Manhattan. At its
very core, New York was different because New Yorkers became different.
Maybe the tough times exposed traits of New Yorkers you do not see when
you are too busy trying to catch the train in the crowd, but it was >different.
What I witnessed were not just lockdowns but a roller coaster of rights.
At one moment, its back to normal, and at the other it is mandate after >mandate. NYC has recovered from a lot but this was kind of different, I
saw New Yorkers change.
New Yorkers went from kinda rude to hostile.
New Yorkers are stereotypically rude, they can be downright mean, but
they are not exactly hostile. In fact, Id say New Yorkers are good
people as a whole who want to help. I remember arriving here and
strangers happily helped me with directions and gave me feedback on >neighborhoods. There was a degree of trust in most strangers in
Manhattan, you felt it, and knew that there were good samaritans abound
in the city.
A New Yorker will be blunt with you and talk shit to your face but he is >never hostile in a territorial sort of way, at least not in Manhattan. >Waiting for food, being in line for groceries, and waiting on your
coffee were different experiences now. Perhaps the one demographic in
NYC that I saw change and become unbearable were older white women, >particularly in Manhattan, they took being Karen to a whole new level.
I remember waiting for the cashier to bag my groceries around April of
last year as an older woman accidentally bumped into me. She made eye
contact and immediately said get away from me, get the fuck away from
me as I was standing arms length away from her. Very unusual as the
cashier watched along with others. Throughout the city, I saw these
instances happening more and more often. In all fairness, this did come
from the older white population in the city.
In the younger population, there was frustration. We hated how the same
old people at risk for COVID were outside wondering around for their
walks while locking down was encouraged, some were even unmasked.
Frustration grew in the younger population as we dealt with the economy
being mostly shut down while those at risk wandered around carelessly, >expecting us to cater to their demands.
The less flattering aspects of the city became even more prominent.
I remember walking with a friend to see how the city looked like during
the lockdowns when they allowed us out. We got too close to a garbage
bag which had not been collected and saw about ten rats inside running >around, that scared the shit out of me. When NYC was open, you wouldnt >encounter this as much or even notice it because so much was going on.
The homeless struggles became a lot more prominent as well because you
could no longer ignore it compared to moving through crowds of people on >their way to work. You had a lot of instances where it would just be you >walking down the street and the only person you would encounter is a
homeless guy asking for change. I also noticed that the homeless
population started to become a lot more aggressive than usual, now
cursing at you more when you ignored their requests for change, which
brings me to my next point.
Crime went up.
While statistics will bring up the rise in hate crimes and rise in
shootings in the city, the truth is that NYC as a whole began to feel a
lot less safe. You did not want to take the subway during the pandemic, >especially not the one in Union Square. Walking around, especially at
night, felt a lot less safe as well. I noticed more shoplifting
happening at pharmacies and convenient stores, all of this in parts of >Manhattan that were usually seen as being safe.
The spike in crime is shown as being in areas where crime was already
bad, I think it is naive to think this way. The truth is that crime in
NYC as a whole went up, especially in safer parts of Manhattan. I used
to be able to walk around my neighborhood at night and it would be
people walking their dogs and everyone getting their evening walk in as
well. During the pandemic, I started noticing more homeless drug addicts
and overall a vibe that was a lot less safe. Its no surprise that when
the mayoral race happened, the winner on the Democrat side was a former
cop with more centrist policies.
The incompetent leadership was no longer tolerable.
It doesnt matter where you stand on the political spectrum, New York
has not elected good leaders recently. Our previous few governors seem
to always get caught up in some sort of scandal and our mayor is
considered to be one of the worst in America. In all fairness, the
mayors before the current mayor did do a good job. When things were
open, you kind of tolerated it. The drinking, partying, and hooking up
with attractive women took your mind off of how incompetent and corrupt
some of the people running the city were.
Once the lockdowns happened, nightlife ended, jobs gutted, crime
skyrocketed, and the rich fled; you were forced to pay attention to it.
The chickens came home to roost for the leadership which became a
laughing stock of the entire country. Now New Yorkers were forced to ask >where the hell those tax dollars were actually going. New Yorkers hit
the polls and selected someone different for mayor, but it was a tale of
two New Yorks.
Racial tensions got much worse.
While it does not get talked about as much and might catch others by >surprise, NYC has quite a lot of racism going on under the surface. The >wealthy whites who vote Democrat in the city will play up the hero act
but there is a reason they prefer not to live too close to Harlem. I
wont take the time to bash out of touch liberals too much.
As it showed in the race for mayor and Democrat primary, well-off whites
in the city do not vote like minorities do. One group was facing rising
crime rates and found defunding the police to be a baffling proposal. >Meanwhile, the Uber Eats Work From Home class was all onboard for
defunding the police as they hid out in their doorman secured buildings.
While wealthy whites cheered for vaccine mandates, minorities who are
less vaccinated on average were not nearly as enthusiastic. The Carmine >Incident represented these tensions boiling over, even though the family
was from Texas. Vaccine mandates were a tale of one privileged side
cheering for them while the other side which was less privileged did not
see as much value in them because they had pressing issues like rising
crime staring them in the face.
For decades, these tensions existed. Many New Yorkers of color were
aware of what I will call the Reddit New Yorker for the sake of this
post, the type to pretend to care about people of color but only hang
with their white and/or hipster crowd. Somehow, during the pandemic, the >tensions bubbled up to the surface. Vaccine mandates almost gave some of
the wealthy closet racists a way to be prejudiced while just hiding
behind the theyre unvaccinated act.
People got nosier.
New Yorkers are stereotyped as being in their own world and out of
everyones business. As the mandates came, New Yorkers got nosier and
nosier. Once again, the biggest culprit here were middle-aged and older
white women being Karens. Now, it became their duty to ask everyone if
they were vaccinated and then give them a lecture if they were not. Your >conversations had a much bigger chance of being overheard.
As angry as I was at these types, I felt for them now looking back at
it. So many of these people lived easy lives in their Manhattan bubbles, >believing every word of what mainstream media told them, and once the >pandemic came it was as if their world had been shattered. I may have
been annoyed and angry at first but I realized that these people were
just really scared and adversarial as a result.
More people questioned why they live in the city now, and many moved.
In all fairness, a lot of people have also moved into NYC because they
think that things will be back to normal soon. Rents have gone up in >Manhattan for a reason and in my heart, NYC will always hold a special
place. Despite the love I had for NYC, I realized that with being able
to work remote and nightlife being mostly closed, there was very little >incentive to pay the high taxes and high rents.
You paid the high taxes and high rents because you loved the nightlife
the city offered and the fact that it attracted a non-judgmental crowd
that didnt care if you werent married with kids by 35. Once nightlife >started to close down and the mandates kicked in, you started to
question why you lived in the city. When jobs allow you to work remote
and nightlife becomes more stringent on proof of vaccination, you really >start to second guess what you are actually paying for.
What does the future hold?
I moved out of NYC and seeing how the city handled the pandemic, am left >wondering how they might handle future crises. Some of what NYC offers
in the form of a great hookup culture will be tough to rival for most
cities. NYC has its charm and it will always attract tourists from
across the world. With remote work being the norm now, it is anyones
guess how much livelier Manhattan will be. Given the good years it gave
me, I will always be in NYCs corner and rooting for it. I am only left >asking if I would want to go back.
MichaelE wrote:
http://millennialbachelor.com/2021/10/26/how-i-saw-nyc-change-throughout-the-pandemic/
How I saw NYC change throughout the pandemic
26 Oct 2021The Millennial
March 2020, or around that time as I like to imagine it, it was like a
normal night. I was in West Village having drinks with a girl I was
casually seeing as her brother and his friends were in town. As bad as
it sounds looking back at it now, so many people joked about COVID-19
and how it won’t be serious. Then we all got an announcement that
weekend or around that time to stay at home, we would be working remote.
For a while, it seemed like no one wanted to be back in the office since
well, working remote has its perks.
My friend and I walked around, may have been April or May of that year,
and we could not believe it. NYC, Manhattan itself, the bumbling haven
of activity was now a ghost town. Rats became more prominent on the
streets as there was less foot traffic and the drugged out homeless
stuck out more. Never would anyone have thought that a city like NYC
would be turned into a ghost town, it was something else entirely. All
of the city had gone into lockdown. As the spring turned to summer,
racial tensions boiled over due to the murder of George Floyd.
I watched as once lively apartment buildings went empty in neighborhoods
that used to be full of energy. Even my own building saw a change as
Friday nights and Saturdays were drop dead silent. You heard almost
nothing anymore and rows of stores were now boarded up. Yet I stayed,
the truth is that very few cities can rival what NYC offers to a single
guy in his twenties.
Tensions got bad as cop cars in Union Square were set on fire and I
lived through it, seeing the riots happen all over the city. Some were
peaceful protests but as night came, those turned violent. Meanwhile,
the city was on lockdown, almost all of the bars closed and nightlife
dead. The parties still went on at the apartments and in some
underground destinations where you had to have an invite but it was
nothing like when the city was open. Most people with the means to do so
left NYC and opted to get out of the state entirely. I don’t know much
of the city outside of Manhattan, for all I know, Queens and other
boroughs are the same.
I loved working remotely and not having to go to the office but it was
something else as the city had changed. The lockdowns, fear of COVID,
tensions boiling over, and restriction after restriction had changed
NYC. I don’t mean change as in your favorite spots being closed, I mean
change as in change the character of the city and of Manhattan. At its
very core, New York was different because New Yorkers became different.
Maybe the tough times exposed traits of New Yorkers you do not see when
you are too busy trying to catch the train in the crowd, but it was
different.
What I witnessed were not just lockdowns but a roller coaster of rights.
At one moment, it’s back to normal, and at the other it is mandate after >> mandate. NYC has recovered from a lot but this was kind of different, I
saw New Yorkers change.
New Yorkers went from kinda rude to hostile.
New Yorkers are stereotypically rude, they can be downright mean, but
they are not exactly hostile. In fact, I’d say New Yorkers are good
people as a whole who want to help. I remember arriving here and
strangers happily helped me with directions and gave me feedback on
neighborhoods. There was a degree of trust in most strangers in
Manhattan, you felt it, and knew that there were good samaritans abound
in the city.
A New Yorker will be blunt with you and talk shit to your face but he is
never hostile in a territorial sort of way, at least not in Manhattan.
Waiting for food, being in line for groceries, and waiting on your
coffee were different experiences now. Perhaps the one demographic in
NYC that I saw change and become unbearable were older white women,
particularly in Manhattan, they took being Karen to a whole new level.
I remember waiting for the cashier to bag my groceries around April of
last year as an older woman accidentally bumped into me. She made eye
contact and immediately said “get away from me, get the fuck away from
me” as I was standing arm’s length away from her. Very unusual as the
cashier watched along with others. Throughout the city, I saw these
instances happening more and more often. In all fairness, this did come >>from the older white population in the city.
In the younger population, there was frustration. We hated how the same
old people at risk for COVID were outside wondering around for their
walks while locking down was encouraged, some were even unmasked.
Frustration grew in the younger population as we dealt with the economy
being mostly shut down while those at risk wandered around carelessly,
expecting us to cater to their demands.
The less flattering aspects of the city became even more prominent.
I remember walking with a friend to see how the city looked like during
the lockdowns when they allowed us out. We got too close to a garbage
bag which had not been collected and saw about ten rats inside running
around, that scared the shit out of me. When NYC was open, you wouldn’t
encounter this as much or even notice it because so much was going on.
The homeless struggles became a lot more prominent as well because you
could no longer ignore it compared to moving through crowds of people on
their way to work. You had a lot of instances where it would just be you
walking down the street and the only person you would encounter is a
homeless guy asking for change. I also noticed that the homeless
population started to become a lot more aggressive than usual, now
cursing at you more when you ignored their requests for change, which
brings me to my next point.
Crime went up.
While statistics will bring up the rise in hate crimes and rise in
shootings in the city, the truth is that NYC as a whole began to feel a
lot less safe. You did not want to take the subway during the pandemic,
especially not the one in Union Square. Walking around, especially at
night, felt a lot less safe as well. I noticed more shoplifting
happening at pharmacies and convenient stores, all of this in parts of
Manhattan that were usually seen as being safe.
The spike in crime is shown as being in areas where crime was already
bad, I think it is naive to think this way. The truth is that crime in
NYC as a whole went up, especially in safer parts of Manhattan. I used
to be able to walk around my neighborhood at night and it would be
people walking their dogs and everyone getting their evening walk in as
well. During the pandemic, I started noticing more homeless drug addicts
and overall a vibe that was a lot less safe. It’s no surprise that when
the mayoral race happened, the winner on the Democrat side was a former
cop with more centrist policies.
The incompetent leadership was no longer tolerable.
It doesn’t matter where you stand on the political spectrum, New York
has not elected good leaders recently. Our previous few governors seem
to always get caught up in some sort of scandal and our mayor is
considered to be one of the worst in America. In all fairness, the
mayors before the current mayor did do a good job. When things were
open, you kind of tolerated it. The drinking, partying, and hooking up
with attractive women took your mind off of how incompetent and corrupt
some of the people running the city were.
Once the lockdowns happened, nightlife ended, jobs gutted, crime
skyrocketed, and the rich fled; you were forced to pay attention to it.
The chickens came home to roost for the leadership which became a
laughing stock of the entire country. Now New Yorkers were forced to ask
where the hell those tax dollars were actually going. New Yorkers hit
the polls and selected someone different for mayor, but it was a tale of
two New Yorks.
Racial tensions got much worse.
While it does not get talked about as much and might catch others by
surprise, NYC has quite a lot of racism going on under the surface. The
wealthy whites who vote Democrat in the city will play up the hero act
but there is a reason they prefer not to live too close to Harlem. I
won’t take the time to bash out of touch liberals too much.
As it showed in the race for mayor and Democrat primary, well-off whites
in the city do not vote like minorities do. One group was facing rising
crime rates and found defunding the police to be a baffling proposal.
Meanwhile, the Uber Eats Work From Home class was all onboard for
defunding the police as they hid out in their doorman secured buildings.
While wealthy whites cheered for vaccine mandates, minorities who are
less vaccinated on average were not nearly as enthusiastic. The Carmine
Incident represented these tensions boiling over, even though the family
was from Texas. Vaccine mandates were a tale of one privileged side
cheering for them while the other side which was less privileged did not
see as much value in them because they had pressing issues like rising
crime staring them in the face.
For decades, these tensions existed. Many New Yorkers of color were
aware of what I will call the Reddit New Yorker for the sake of this
post, the type to pretend to care about people of color but only hang
with their white and/or hipster crowd. Somehow, during the pandemic, the
tensions bubbled up to the surface. Vaccine mandates almost gave some of
the wealthy closet racists a way to be prejudiced while just hiding
behind the “they’re unvaccinated” act.
People got nosier.
New Yorkers are stereotyped as being in their own world and out of
everyone’s business. As the mandates came, New Yorkers got nosier and
nosier. Once again, the biggest culprit here were middle-aged and older
white women being Karens. Now, it became their duty to ask everyone if
they were vaccinated and then give them a lecture if they were not. Your
conversations had a much bigger chance of being overheard.
As angry as I was at these types, I felt for them now looking back at
it. So many of these people lived easy lives in their Manhattan bubbles,
believing every word of what mainstream media told them, and once the
pandemic came it was as if their world had been shattered. I may have
been annoyed and angry at first but I realized that these people were
just really scared and adversarial as a result.
More people questioned why they live in the city now, and many moved.
In all fairness, a lot of people have also moved into NYC because they
think that things will be back to normal soon. Rents have gone up in
Manhattan for a reason and in my heart, NYC will always hold a special
place. Despite the love I had for NYC, I realized that with being able
to work remote and nightlife being mostly closed, there was very little
incentive to pay the high taxes and high rents.
You paid the high taxes and high rents because you loved the nightlife
the city offered and the fact that it attracted a non-judgmental crowd
that didn’t care if you weren’t married with kids by 35. Once nightlife >> started to close down and the mandates kicked in, you started to
question why you lived in the city. When jobs allow you to work remote
and nightlife becomes more stringent on proof of vaccination, you really
start to second guess what you are actually paying for.
What does the future hold?
I moved out of NYC and seeing how the city handled the pandemic, am left
wondering how they might handle future crises. Some of what NYC offers
in the form of a great hookup culture will be tough to rival for most
cities. NYC has its charm and it will always attract tourists from
across the world. With remote work being the norm now, it is anyone’s
guess how much livelier Manhattan will be. Given the good years it gave
me, I will always be in NYC’s corner and rooting for it. I am only left
asking if I would want to go back.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
NYC & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
MichaelE wrote:I am wonderfully hungry!
http://millennialbachelor.com/2021/10/26/how-i-saw-nyc-change-throughout-the-pandemic/
How I saw NYC change throughout the pandemic
26 Oct 2021The Millennial
March 2020, or around that time as I like to imagine it, it was like a
normal night. I was in West Village having drinks with a girl I was
casually seeing as her brother and his friends were in town. As bad as
it sounds looking back at it now, so many people joked about COVID-19
and how it wont be serious. Then we all got an announcement that
weekend or around that time to stay at home, we would be working remote. >>> For a while, it seemed like no one wanted to be back in the office since >>> well, working remote has its perks.
My friend and I walked around, may have been April or May of that year,
and we could not believe it. NYC, Manhattan itself, the bumbling haven
of activity was now a ghost town. Rats became more prominent on the
streets as there was less foot traffic and the drugged out homeless
stuck out more. Never would anyone have thought that a city like NYC
would be turned into a ghost town, it was something else entirely. All
of the city had gone into lockdown. As the spring turned to summer,
racial tensions boiled over due to the murder of George Floyd.
I watched as once lively apartment buildings went empty in neighborhoods >>> that used to be full of energy. Even my own building saw a change as
Friday nights and Saturdays were drop dead silent. You heard almost
nothing anymore and rows of stores were now boarded up. Yet I stayed,
the truth is that very few cities can rival what NYC offers to a single
guy in his twenties.
Tensions got bad as cop cars in Union Square were set on fire and I
lived through it, seeing the riots happen all over the city. Some were
peaceful protests but as night came, those turned violent. Meanwhile,
the city was on lockdown, almost all of the bars closed and nightlife
dead. The parties still went on at the apartments and in some
underground destinations where you had to have an invite but it was
nothing like when the city was open. Most people with the means to do so >>> left NYC and opted to get out of the state entirely. I dont know much
of the city outside of Manhattan, for all I know, Queens and other
boroughs are the same.
I loved working remotely and not having to go to the office but it was
something else as the city had changed. The lockdowns, fear of COVID,
tensions boiling over, and restriction after restriction had changed
NYC. I dont mean change as in your favorite spots being closed, I mean
change as in change the character of the city and of Manhattan. At its
very core, New York was different because New Yorkers became different.
Maybe the tough times exposed traits of New Yorkers you do not see when
you are too busy trying to catch the train in the crowd, but it was
different.
What I witnessed were not just lockdowns but a roller coaster of rights. >>> At one moment, its back to normal, and at the other it is mandate after >>> mandate. NYC has recovered from a lot but this was kind of different, I
saw New Yorkers change.
New Yorkers went from kinda rude to hostile.
New Yorkers are stereotypically rude, they can be downright mean, but
they are not exactly hostile. In fact, Id say New Yorkers are good
people as a whole who want to help. I remember arriving here and
strangers happily helped me with directions and gave me feedback on
neighborhoods. There was a degree of trust in most strangers in
Manhattan, you felt it, and knew that there were good samaritans abound
in the city.
A New Yorker will be blunt with you and talk shit to your face but he is >>> never hostile in a territorial sort of way, at least not in Manhattan.
Waiting for food, being in line for groceries, and waiting on your
coffee were different experiences now. Perhaps the one demographic in
NYC that I saw change and become unbearable were older white women,
particularly in Manhattan, they took being Karen to a whole new level.
I remember waiting for the cashier to bag my groceries around April of
last year as an older woman accidentally bumped into me. She made eye
contact and immediately said get away from me, get the fuck away from
me as I was standing arms length away from her. Very unusual as the
cashier watched along with others. Throughout the city, I saw these
instances happening more and more often. In all fairness, this did come >>>from the older white population in the city.
In the younger population, there was frustration. We hated how the same
old people at risk for COVID were outside wondering around for their
walks while locking down was encouraged, some were even unmasked.
Frustration grew in the younger population as we dealt with the economy
being mostly shut down while those at risk wandered around carelessly,
expecting us to cater to their demands.
The less flattering aspects of the city became even more prominent.
I remember walking with a friend to see how the city looked like during
the lockdowns when they allowed us out. We got too close to a garbage
bag which had not been collected and saw about ten rats inside running
around, that scared the shit out of me. When NYC was open, you wouldnt
encounter this as much or even notice it because so much was going on.
The homeless struggles became a lot more prominent as well because you
could no longer ignore it compared to moving through crowds of people on >>> their way to work. You had a lot of instances where it would just be you >>> walking down the street and the only person you would encounter is a
homeless guy asking for change. I also noticed that the homeless
population started to become a lot more aggressive than usual, now
cursing at you more when you ignored their requests for change, which
brings me to my next point.
Crime went up.
While statistics will bring up the rise in hate crimes and rise in
shootings in the city, the truth is that NYC as a whole began to feel a
lot less safe. You did not want to take the subway during the pandemic,
especially not the one in Union Square. Walking around, especially at
night, felt a lot less safe as well. I noticed more shoplifting
happening at pharmacies and convenient stores, all of this in parts of
Manhattan that were usually seen as being safe.
The spike in crime is shown as being in areas where crime was already
bad, I think it is naive to think this way. The truth is that crime in
NYC as a whole went up, especially in safer parts of Manhattan. I used
to be able to walk around my neighborhood at night and it would be
people walking their dogs and everyone getting their evening walk in as
well. During the pandemic, I started noticing more homeless drug addicts >>> and overall a vibe that was a lot less safe. Its no surprise that when
the mayoral race happened, the winner on the Democrat side was a former
cop with more centrist policies.
The incompetent leadership was no longer tolerable.
It doesnt matter where you stand on the political spectrum, New York
has not elected good leaders recently. Our previous few governors seem
to always get caught up in some sort of scandal and our mayor is
considered to be one of the worst in America. In all fairness, the
mayors before the current mayor did do a good job. When things were
open, you kind of tolerated it. The drinking, partying, and hooking up
with attractive women took your mind off of how incompetent and corrupt
some of the people running the city were.
Once the lockdowns happened, nightlife ended, jobs gutted, crime
skyrocketed, and the rich fled; you were forced to pay attention to it.
The chickens came home to roost for the leadership which became a
laughing stock of the entire country. Now New Yorkers were forced to ask >>> where the hell those tax dollars were actually going. New Yorkers hit
the polls and selected someone different for mayor, but it was a tale of >>> two New Yorks.
Racial tensions got much worse.
While it does not get talked about as much and might catch others by
surprise, NYC has quite a lot of racism going on under the surface. The
wealthy whites who vote Democrat in the city will play up the hero act
but there is a reason they prefer not to live too close to Harlem. I
wont take the time to bash out of touch liberals too much.
As it showed in the race for mayor and Democrat primary, well-off whites >>> in the city do not vote like minorities do. One group was facing rising
crime rates and found defunding the police to be a baffling proposal.
Meanwhile, the Uber Eats Work From Home class was all onboard for
defunding the police as they hid out in their doorman secured buildings. >>>
While wealthy whites cheered for vaccine mandates, minorities who are
less vaccinated on average were not nearly as enthusiastic. The Carmine
Incident represented these tensions boiling over, even though the family >>> was from Texas. Vaccine mandates were a tale of one privileged side
cheering for them while the other side which was less privileged did not >>> see as much value in them because they had pressing issues like rising
crime staring them in the face.
For decades, these tensions existed. Many New Yorkers of color were
aware of what I will call the Reddit New Yorker for the sake of this
post, the type to pretend to care about people of color but only hang
with their white and/or hipster crowd. Somehow, during the pandemic, the >>> tensions bubbled up to the surface. Vaccine mandates almost gave some of >>> the wealthy closet racists a way to be prejudiced while just hiding
behind the theyre unvaccinated act.
People got nosier.
New Yorkers are stereotyped as being in their own world and out of
everyones business. As the mandates came, New Yorkers got nosier and
nosier. Once again, the biggest culprit here were middle-aged and older
white women being Karens. Now, it became their duty to ask everyone if
they were vaccinated and then give them a lecture if they were not. Your >>> conversations had a much bigger chance of being overheard.
As angry as I was at these types, I felt for them now looking back at
it. So many of these people lived easy lives in their Manhattan bubbles, >>> believing every word of what mainstream media told them, and once the
pandemic came it was as if their world had been shattered. I may have
been annoyed and angry at first but I realized that these people were
just really scared and adversarial as a result.
More people questioned why they live in the city now, and many moved.
In all fairness, a lot of people have also moved into NYC because they
think that things will be back to normal soon. Rents have gone up in
Manhattan for a reason and in my heart, NYC will always hold a special
place. Despite the love I had for NYC, I realized that with being able
to work remote and nightlife being mostly closed, there was very little
incentive to pay the high taxes and high rents.
You paid the high taxes and high rents because you loved the nightlife
the city offered and the fact that it attracted a non-judgmental crowd
that didnt care if you werent married with kids by 35. Once nightlife
started to close down and the mandates kicked in, you started to
question why you lived in the city. When jobs allow you to work remote
and nightlife becomes more stringent on proof of vaccination, you really >>> start to second guess what you are actually paying for.
What does the future hold?
I moved out of NYC and seeing how the city handled the pandemic, am left >>> wondering how they might handle future crises. Some of what NYC offers
in the form of a great hookup culture will be tough to rival for most
cities. NYC has its charm and it will always attract tourists from
across the world. With remote work being the norm now, it is anyones
guess how much livelier Manhattan will be. Given the good years it gave
me, I will always be in NYCs corner and rooting for it. I am only left
asking if I would want to go back.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
NYC & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
Michael
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: The LORD says "Blessed are you who hunger now ..."
He is trying to pull a fast one. His scripture bit is found among these:
'14 Bible verses about Spiritual Hunger'
Psalms
81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: >open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Proverbs
13:25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of >the wicked is in need.
Joel
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
Psalms
107 For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Acts
14:17 "Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by >giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying
your hearts with food and gladness."
someone eternally condemned & ever more cursed by GOD perseverated:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: a very very very simple definition of sin ...
John:Does andrew's "definition" agree with scripture? Let's see in 1
John wrote this to christians. The greek grammer (sic) speaks of an ongoing >> status. He includes himself in that status.
1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, >> and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is >> not in us.
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:05:49 -0700, Michael Ejercito
<MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
MichaelE wrote:I am wonderfully hungry!
http://millennialbachelor.com/2021/10/26/how-i-saw-nyc-change-throughout-the-pandemic/
How I saw NYC change throughout the pandemic
26 Oct 2021The Millennial
March 2020, or around that time as I like to imagine it, it was like a >>>> normal night. I was in West Village having drinks with a girl I was
casually seeing as her brother and his friends were in town. As bad as >>>> it sounds looking back at it now, so many people joked about COVID-19
and how it won’t be serious. Then we all got an announcement that
weekend or around that time to stay at home, we would be working remote. >>>> For a while, it seemed like no one wanted to be back in the office since >>>> well, working remote has its perks.
My friend and I walked around, may have been April or May of that year, >>>> and we could not believe it. NYC, Manhattan itself, the bumbling haven >>>> of activity was now a ghost town. Rats became more prominent on the
streets as there was less foot traffic and the drugged out homeless
stuck out more. Never would anyone have thought that a city like NYC
would be turned into a ghost town, it was something else entirely. All >>>> of the city had gone into lockdown. As the spring turned to summer,
racial tensions boiled over due to the murder of George Floyd.
I watched as once lively apartment buildings went empty in neighborhoods >>>> that used to be full of energy. Even my own building saw a change as
Friday nights and Saturdays were drop dead silent. You heard almost
nothing anymore and rows of stores were now boarded up. Yet I stayed,
the truth is that very few cities can rival what NYC offers to a single >>>> guy in his twenties.
Tensions got bad as cop cars in Union Square were set on fire and I
lived through it, seeing the riots happen all over the city. Some were >>>> peaceful protests but as night came, those turned violent. Meanwhile,
the city was on lockdown, almost all of the bars closed and nightlife
dead. The parties still went on at the apartments and in some
underground destinations where you had to have an invite but it was
nothing like when the city was open. Most people with the means to do so >>>> left NYC and opted to get out of the state entirely. I don’t know much >>>> of the city outside of Manhattan, for all I know, Queens and other
boroughs are the same.
I loved working remotely and not having to go to the office but it was >>>> something else as the city had changed. The lockdowns, fear of COVID,
tensions boiling over, and restriction after restriction had changed
NYC. I don’t mean change as in your favorite spots being closed, I mean >>>> change as in change the character of the city and of Manhattan. At its >>>> very core, New York was different because New Yorkers became different. >>>> Maybe the tough times exposed traits of New Yorkers you do not see when >>>> you are too busy trying to catch the train in the crowd, but it was
different.
What I witnessed were not just lockdowns but a roller coaster of rights. >>>> At one moment, it’s back to normal, and at the other it is mandate after >>>> mandate. NYC has recovered from a lot but this was kind of different, I >>>> saw New Yorkers change.
New Yorkers went from kinda rude to hostile.
New Yorkers are stereotypically rude, they can be downright mean, but
they are not exactly hostile. In fact, I’d say New Yorkers are good
people as a whole who want to help. I remember arriving here and
strangers happily helped me with directions and gave me feedback on
neighborhoods. There was a degree of trust in most strangers in
Manhattan, you felt it, and knew that there were good samaritans abound >>>> in the city.
A New Yorker will be blunt with you and talk shit to your face but he is >>>> never hostile in a territorial sort of way, at least not in Manhattan. >>>> Waiting for food, being in line for groceries, and waiting on your
coffee were different experiences now. Perhaps the one demographic in
NYC that I saw change and become unbearable were older white women,
particularly in Manhattan, they took being Karen to a whole new level. >>>>
I remember waiting for the cashier to bag my groceries around April of >>>> last year as an older woman accidentally bumped into me. She made eye
contact and immediately said “get away from me, get the fuck away from >>>> me” as I was standing arm’s length away from her. Very unusual as the >>>> cashier watched along with others. Throughout the city, I saw these
instances happening more and more often. In all fairness, this did come >>> >from the older white population in the city.
In the younger population, there was frustration. We hated how the same >>>> old people at risk for COVID were outside wondering around for their
walks while locking down was encouraged, some were even unmasked.
Frustration grew in the younger population as we dealt with the economy >>>> being mostly shut down while those at risk wandered around carelessly, >>>> expecting us to cater to their demands.
The less flattering aspects of the city became even more prominent.
I remember walking with a friend to see how the city looked like during >>>> the lockdowns when they allowed us out. We got too close to a garbage
bag which had not been collected and saw about ten rats inside running >>>> around, that scared the shit out of me. When NYC was open, you wouldn’t >>>> encounter this as much or even notice it because so much was going on. >>>>
The homeless struggles became a lot more prominent as well because you >>>> could no longer ignore it compared to moving through crowds of people on >>>> their way to work. You had a lot of instances where it would just be you >>>> walking down the street and the only person you would encounter is a
homeless guy asking for change. I also noticed that the homeless
population started to become a lot more aggressive than usual, now
cursing at you more when you ignored their requests for change, which
brings me to my next point.
Crime went up.
While statistics will bring up the rise in hate crimes and rise in
shootings in the city, the truth is that NYC as a whole began to feel a >>>> lot less safe. You did not want to take the subway during the pandemic, >>>> especially not the one in Union Square. Walking around, especially at
night, felt a lot less safe as well. I noticed more shoplifting
happening at pharmacies and convenient stores, all of this in parts of >>>> Manhattan that were usually seen as being safe.
The spike in crime is shown as being in areas where crime was already
bad, I think it is naive to think this way. The truth is that crime in >>>> NYC as a whole went up, especially in safer parts of Manhattan. I used >>>> to be able to walk around my neighborhood at night and it would be
people walking their dogs and everyone getting their evening walk in as >>>> well. During the pandemic, I started noticing more homeless drug addicts >>>> and overall a vibe that was a lot less safe. It’s no surprise that when >>>> the mayoral race happened, the winner on the Democrat side was a former >>>> cop with more centrist policies.
The incompetent leadership was no longer tolerable.
It doesn’t matter where you stand on the political spectrum, New York >>>> has not elected good leaders recently. Our previous few governors seem >>>> to always get caught up in some sort of scandal and our mayor is
considered to be one of the worst in America. In all fairness, the
mayors before the current mayor did do a good job. When things were
open, you kind of tolerated it. The drinking, partying, and hooking up >>>> with attractive women took your mind off of how incompetent and corrupt >>>> some of the people running the city were.
Once the lockdowns happened, nightlife ended, jobs gutted, crime
skyrocketed, and the rich fled; you were forced to pay attention to it. >>>> The chickens came home to roost for the leadership which became a
laughing stock of the entire country. Now New Yorkers were forced to ask >>>> where the hell those tax dollars were actually going. New Yorkers hit
the polls and selected someone different for mayor, but it was a tale of >>>> two New Yorks.
Racial tensions got much worse.
While it does not get talked about as much and might catch others by
surprise, NYC has quite a lot of racism going on under the surface. The >>>> wealthy whites who vote Democrat in the city will play up the hero act >>>> but there is a reason they prefer not to live too close to Harlem. I
won’t take the time to bash out of touch liberals too much.
As it showed in the race for mayor and Democrat primary, well-off whites >>>> in the city do not vote like minorities do. One group was facing rising >>>> crime rates and found defunding the police to be a baffling proposal.
Meanwhile, the Uber Eats Work From Home class was all onboard for
defunding the police as they hid out in their doorman secured buildings. >>>>
While wealthy whites cheered for vaccine mandates, minorities who are
less vaccinated on average were not nearly as enthusiastic. The Carmine >>>> Incident represented these tensions boiling over, even though the family >>>> was from Texas. Vaccine mandates were a tale of one privileged side
cheering for them while the other side which was less privileged did not >>>> see as much value in them because they had pressing issues like rising >>>> crime staring them in the face.
For decades, these tensions existed. Many New Yorkers of color were
aware of what I will call the Reddit New Yorker for the sake of this
post, the type to pretend to care about people of color but only hang
with their white and/or hipster crowd. Somehow, during the pandemic, the >>>> tensions bubbled up to the surface. Vaccine mandates almost gave some of >>>> the wealthy closet racists a way to be prejudiced while just hiding
behind the “they’re unvaccinated” act.
People got nosier.
New Yorkers are stereotyped as being in their own world and out of
everyone’s business. As the mandates came, New Yorkers got nosier and >>>> nosier. Once again, the biggest culprit here were middle-aged and older >>>> white women being Karens. Now, it became their duty to ask everyone if >>>> they were vaccinated and then give them a lecture if they were not. Your >>>> conversations had a much bigger chance of being overheard.
As angry as I was at these types, I felt for them now looking back at
it. So many of these people lived easy lives in their Manhattan bubbles, >>>> believing every word of what mainstream media told them, and once the
pandemic came it was as if their world had been shattered. I may have
been annoyed and angry at first but I realized that these people were
just really scared and adversarial as a result.
More people questioned why they live in the city now, and many moved.
In all fairness, a lot of people have also moved into NYC because they >>>> think that things will be back to normal soon. Rents have gone up in
Manhattan for a reason and in my heart, NYC will always hold a special >>>> place. Despite the love I had for NYC, I realized that with being able >>>> to work remote and nightlife being mostly closed, there was very little >>>> incentive to pay the high taxes and high rents.
You paid the high taxes and high rents because you loved the nightlife >>>> the city offered and the fact that it attracted a non-judgmental crowd >>>> that didn’t care if you weren’t married with kids by 35. Once nightlife
started to close down and the mandates kicked in, you started to
question why you lived in the city. When jobs allow you to work remote >>>> and nightlife becomes more stringent on proof of vaccination, you really >>>> start to second guess what you are actually paying for.
What does the future hold?
I moved out of NYC and seeing how the city handled the pandemic, am left >>>> wondering how they might handle future crises. Some of what NYC offers >>>> in the form of a great hookup culture will be tough to rival for most
cities. NYC has its charm and it will always attract tourists from
across the world. With remote work being the norm now, it is anyone’s >>>> guess how much livelier Manhattan will be. Given the good years it gave >>>> me, I will always be in NYC’s corner and rooting for it. I am only left >>>> asking if I would want to go back.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
NYC & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
Michael
You are wonderfully hungry for Chris Morton's black dick.Wrong,. for I am a normal men.
reputation has already been tainted by your association with that
useless ape.
opinions.
(NYC) 10/31/21 Again praying here ...
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.bible.prophecy/c/zfi3p3YPEdQ/m/CL5XsV1JBAAJ
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 293 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 220:08:53 |
| Calls: | 6,622 |
| Calls today: | 4 |
| Files: | 12,171 |
| Messages: | 5,317,887 |