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Bloody hell - I just found out that the gym that I was a member of and frequented up until roughly 2013, collapsed. The ENTIRE BUILDING COLLAPSED.
My mind is blown.
How did I find out? ( Read more... )
Time for picture.
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Crazy Company
Well, at today's staff meeting, boss got all emotional and decided to thank the ten of us for basically doing our job and standing up to the "herculean" task at hand for the last four months. ( this was the highlight, it goes downhill from there )
New York vs. the Corona Virus...and the idiotic President
The New York Governor continues to try to bully the President of the United States into wearing a frigging mask in public for the sake of the nation. He's given up on getting any money or support from him. If he could just get the dumb bastard to put on a mask. (I think I'm in love with my Governor. This is so weird.)
( National Politics )
Anyhow, back to New York. If you can visualize four or five traumatized groups of kids huddled together after a major storm, who have managed to survive said storm by the skin of their teeth and are in major debt - while outside another storm threatens engulf them and possibly even worse than the previous one - that's New York, New Jersey, and Connetitcut. It's kind of like that scene from "Night of the Living Dead" - where the surviving humans are all huddled in a shack together terrified to go outside? I mean at least Europe is able to enforce it's international boundaries to some extent.
Governor: If people want to come to NY, they can. We have two storms threatening. One is the people from other states. Try as we might, we can't keep them out. We can't keep the illegal immigrants out, how can we keep people from other states out? The other problem is people aren't wearing masks and socially distancing enough in NYC and elsewhere. If you don't, we're dead. We'll go back to the mountain. Want me to bring out the mountain again? Because I will. The President needs to wear a mask and mandate that everyone does and enforce it!
My super doesn't. His wife and child do. He does not. I'd like to smack him. (I don't like him very much, I like his wife. But he's an asshole. Getting him to do anything - is pulling teeth. I hate to ask him. I ask her - and she makes him do it. ) He also can't speak English, Russian yes, English, not so much, while she can, which is part of the problem. (They are Polish. I live in a community that is basically the United Nations.)
I don't like conflict - otherwise I'd tell strangers and the super to wear masks. Instead, I do what Chris Rock does - I give them a nasty look. LOL!
(And since my eyes are barely visible - something tells me that it isn't that effective.)
Poor New York. It won it's fight against the virus, and figured it out. It's even tested 4 million of its citizens, roughly a fifth of its overall population, more people per capita than anyone else. If it were up to our Governor - every citizen of the state, and anyone visiting the state would be tested on a daily basis. (New York is test happy. It is obsessed with testing and contact tracing.)
Anyhow, because they can't control what is happening in NYC, the indoor dining and bars are being post-poned until maybe Phase 4.
Mother: Is it true that Broadway isn't opening until 2021?
ME: Yep. Forget Broadway, they are having troubles figuring out how to open department stores, malls, restaurants, and bars. (I'm not sure about the museums.)
Half the press conference was about opening up malls and whether it was fair to make them put in expensive hepa filters. Actually UV light works really well - the MTA has been using that.
This is killing our economy.
The other half of the press conference was the Governor basically lecturing the NY Press and the public by extension on why the $1 Billion dollar reduction in Police spending isn't going to work and what they should be doing and should be discussing.( Read more... )
Thank you, Governor. I don't care what other people think or say, You earned my vote ten times over. If you are an activist in any way - I strongly recommend you watch this video. I really want to find a transcript of this.
This made my day!
Ah, New York. I love you. You crazy state with such people in it.
I leave you with another picture..this time of a beautiful bronze sculpted door on the front of a mausoleum.
My mind is blown.
How did I find out? ( Read more... )
Time for picture.
( Read more... )
Crazy Company
Well, at today's staff meeting, boss got all emotional and decided to thank the ten of us for basically doing our job and standing up to the "herculean" task at hand for the last four months. ( this was the highlight, it goes downhill from there )
New York vs. the Corona Virus...and the idiotic President
The New York Governor continues to try to bully the President of the United States into wearing a frigging mask in public for the sake of the nation. He's given up on getting any money or support from him. If he could just get the dumb bastard to put on a mask. (I think I'm in love with my Governor. This is so weird.)
( National Politics )
Anyhow, back to New York. If you can visualize four or five traumatized groups of kids huddled together after a major storm, who have managed to survive said storm by the skin of their teeth and are in major debt - while outside another storm threatens engulf them and possibly even worse than the previous one - that's New York, New Jersey, and Connetitcut. It's kind of like that scene from "Night of the Living Dead" - where the surviving humans are all huddled in a shack together terrified to go outside? I mean at least Europe is able to enforce it's international boundaries to some extent.
Governor: If people want to come to NY, they can. We have two storms threatening. One is the people from other states. Try as we might, we can't keep them out. We can't keep the illegal immigrants out, how can we keep people from other states out? The other problem is people aren't wearing masks and socially distancing enough in NYC and elsewhere. If you don't, we're dead. We'll go back to the mountain. Want me to bring out the mountain again? Because I will. The President needs to wear a mask and mandate that everyone does and enforce it!
My super doesn't. His wife and child do. He does not. I'd like to smack him. (I don't like him very much, I like his wife. But he's an asshole. Getting him to do anything - is pulling teeth. I hate to ask him. I ask her - and she makes him do it. ) He also can't speak English, Russian yes, English, not so much, while she can, which is part of the problem. (They are Polish. I live in a community that is basically the United Nations.)
I don't like conflict - otherwise I'd tell strangers and the super to wear masks. Instead, I do what Chris Rock does - I give them a nasty look. LOL!
(And since my eyes are barely visible - something tells me that it isn't that effective.)
Poor New York. It won it's fight against the virus, and figured it out. It's even tested 4 million of its citizens, roughly a fifth of its overall population, more people per capita than anyone else. If it were up to our Governor - every citizen of the state, and anyone visiting the state would be tested on a daily basis. (New York is test happy. It is obsessed with testing and contact tracing.)
Anyhow, because they can't control what is happening in NYC, the indoor dining and bars are being post-poned until maybe Phase 4.
Mother: Is it true that Broadway isn't opening until 2021?
ME: Yep. Forget Broadway, they are having troubles figuring out how to open department stores, malls, restaurants, and bars. (I'm not sure about the museums.)
Half the press conference was about opening up malls and whether it was fair to make them put in expensive hepa filters. Actually UV light works really well - the MTA has been using that.
This is killing our economy.
The other half of the press conference was the Governor basically lecturing the NY Press and the public by extension on why the $1 Billion dollar reduction in Police spending isn't going to work and what they should be doing and should be discussing.( Read more... )
Thank you, Governor. I don't care what other people think or say, You earned my vote ten times over. If you are an activist in any way - I strongly recommend you watch this video. I really want to find a transcript of this.
This made my day!
Ah, New York. I love you. You crazy state with such people in it.
I leave you with another picture..this time of a beautiful bronze sculpted door on the front of a mausoleum.