“If you like Trump you must be rich, racist and stupid.”
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Says the Biden Democrat driving an Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. Base price for this “poor man’s” car starts in the neighborhood of $85,000 and surpasses the $100,000 with the option packages and assorted fees.
And I am a Hispanic driving a truck that can legally vote and next year will be able to legally buy alcohol. But I am the evil rich one. I can basically pay off what’s left of our mortgage and and have plenty left for renovations with what that asshole paid to have a crappy Italian car to drive him/her to the Smoothie drive-thru.
They took off in a hurry — but these New Yorkers are on the express line back to the city.
When the pandemic hit in March, Zachary Thacher packed his suitcases and joined the record-breaking exodus of city folk leaving town.
“I was feeling cooped up and thought I wanted to have a more rural life that was more in tune with nature,” said Thacher, who gave up his one-bedroom apartment in the West Village in April. “I thought I wouldn’t come back.”
Turns out, not all New Yorkers are cut out for country living.
“I was definitely not in farm-shape when I got there,” said Thacher, who volunteered at a friend’s organic farm for four and a half months.
And so after testing out life in Massachusetts, Vermont and Beacon, N.Y., Thacher settled on, well, Brooklyn.
That guy looks like he gets tired ordering a cup of coffee.
On June 1, [Maureen Cross] signed a lease on a much bigger three-bedroom flat in Burlington, Vt., where she moved with her two Siberian huskies.
She was living in a tiny one-bedroom apartment.
“After two weeks I was like, ‘Is this all there is? Where is everybody?’ ”
She was so acclimated to living in a phone booth that a normal size apartment felt cavernous.
“I moved back right in time for the Met reopening,” said Cross. “When I walked into the room with the Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko paintings, my cells fell back into place.”
That is the most arrogantly New York thing I have ever heard.
Earlier this year, Jenn, who works for a radio station and declined to give her last name, moved out of her apartment on West 87th Street with her husband and two daughters, ages 4 and 8.
“When June came, I lost my mind and agreed to buy a pool that came with a home in Albany,” said the 44-year-old, half-jokingly.
The former Upper West Sider said she “misses everything” about the city, but agreed to stay put considering her husband loves the ‘burbs and her kids are “thriving.”
You mean that children thrive when they are allowed to grow up the way humans are supposed to and not crushed under the weight of a billion tons of oppressive concrete jungle that blots out the son and creates stagnant pools of smog to breathe?
Who but a New Yorker would be surprised by that?
Noelle, a 32-year-old commercial real estate developer, recently decamped to Whitefish, Mont., with her partner and their two young children.
Thankfully, they still have the keys to their Gramercy place.
“I miss talking to the doormen in the morning when I walk my dog,” said Noelle, who declined to give her last name for privacy reasons.
You know what the best part of owning my own home is? Not getting permission from someone to enter or exit my home.
“I miss going outside and being able to talk to people.”
Bullshit, New Yorkers don’t talk to strangers. They occasionally scream profanity at them but I’ve never met a New Yorker have a conversation with a stranger on the street. I have seen that in the Midwest. I assume what she means is that she’s tired of the friendly locals in Montana talking to her and she wants to go back to where if she’s outside, people avoid making eye contact.
While hiking, swimming and sledding are nice, she said they don’t hold a candle to visiting the Central Park Zoo with the kids or date night at Casa Mono, one of her favorite neighborhood restaurants.
Even her toddler can’t wait to return to his cosmopolitan routine.
Said Noelle: “My son looked at me one day and said, ‘Mommy, I miss sushi.’ ”
There are in fact three Sushi restaurants in Whitefish. Noelle here has shut herself into her place in Montana and not left it to see what is around. Why not drive down to Yellowstone or Big Sky National Park. She could see bison roaming free, not cooped up behind bars. Except that as a New Yorker, she feels more comfortable in a tiny cage surrounded by artificial nature and than in the wide and open air.
New York City is a human zoo, and like zoo animals raised in captivity, they have no idea how to thrive in the wild if they are released.
It really is time to build a giant wall around Manhattan Island and turn it into a maximum-security penitentiary like out of a John Carpenter movie.
New Yorkers will probably thanks us for it by making them feel more comfortable, like wrapping them up in a security blanket.
The U.K. Labour Party has suspended its former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, after a watchdog report found that the party failed to properly take action against allegations of anti-Semitism during his time in charge.
The state of play: The U.K.’s Equality and Human Rights Commission found that Labour was “responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination” linked to anti-Semitism, per the BBC.
Its report found “a culture within the party which, at best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it.” It also found that Corbyn’s office had “politically interfered” on 23 separate occasions regarding the anti-Semitism complaints.
Good, the UK Parliament is finally addressing the Progressive Jew-hatred elephant in the room.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) urged U.K. voters to head to the polls to vote for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Thursday’s general election.
“The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives. The only way we change is with a massive surge of *new* voters at the polls. U.K., Vote!”
Oh yeah, and this too:
But if you are an AOC fan, don’t worry, the US media will never hold her to account for this. If a Republican was ever caught endorsing a candidate that was suspended over Antisemitism, it would be a national scandal. She’s a young, pretty, popular Democrat, so she’s in the clear to continue to support Jew-haters.
Gatherings that include more than 3 households are prohibited. This includes everyone present, including hosts and guests. Remember, the smaller the number of people, the safer. you truly have no concept of Southern, Italian and Latino families, do you? At least take three households just to cook the meal and another two to do efficient beer runs.
The host should collect names of all attendees and contact information in case contact tracing is needed later. We usually have the fights after the meal, not when Uncle Pedro decides to re-enact his time as Pinochet’s enforcer as you walk in.
Gatherings that occur outdoors are significantly safer than indoor gatherings. All gatherings must be held outside. Attendees may go inside to use restrooms as long as the restrooms are frequently sanitized. So if we live in a building, we cram the balcony and even pee over the railing if necessary because I doubt mom is going to be disinfecting the bathroom every half an hour.
For any gatherings permitted under this guidance, the space must be large enough so that everyone at a gathering can maintain at least a 6-foot physical distance from others (not including their own household) at all times. Well, no shit you need to hold it outside with all them distances. We would have to rent a frigging stadium!
Everyone at a gathering should frequently wash their hands with soap and water, or use hand sanitizer if soap and water are not available. A place to wash hands or hand sanitizer must be available for participants to use. Raise your unwashed hand if you foresee mayor arguments outside the bathroom and the kids running all over the house and squirting each other with purloined bottles of Purell.
Gatherings should be two hours or less. The longer the duration, the risk of transmission increases. Really? It takes two hours just to set the table and another hour to gather people from all over and sitting them down before grandma goes atomic and stabs the turkey with a rusty machete.
And my favorite:
Instrumental music is allowed as long as the musicians maintain at least 6-foot physical distancing. Musicians must be from one of the three households. Playing of wind instruments (any instrument played by the mouth, such as a trumpet or clarinet) is strongly discouraged. I have the solution for that: Put a face mask in the bell of the wind instrument and problem solved! Covid Mute!
Michael Bay decided to do a dystopian action movie based on COVID.
It is called Songbird and the trailer just dropped.
Didn’t I just write a post yesterday containing this:
I’m expecting news from the future to be:
“October 2023, to prevent a COVID 12th wave, the government has ordered a Stage 6 lockdown. No one will be allowed to leave their home for any reason. The government has contracted with Amazon Prime to provide drone delivery of food and necessity rations to all Americans. In other news, Jeff Bezos is the first person to become a trillionaire.”
For my next trick, I’m predicting lottery numbers.
The part where one of the characters showed a wristband and says “I’m immune.”
Hooray, government-mandated badges, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those before.
After what it calls an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, Boston University said this week it will start requiring that students show online badges in certain locations on campus indicating they tested negative for the viral respiratory infection.
After completing daily health screenings online, students, staff and faculty will receive an email confirmation with a green “cleared” badge that they must show to be allowed to enter dining halls, the George Sherman Union and several other public spaces at the university, the school said in a statement Wednesday.
You must wear your badge to go and get food. Read that sentence again.
“We hope this will be a reminder to everyone of the importance of daily symptom attestation and testing for keeping our campus safe,” the statement said.
You can imagine that exact phrase being blasted over a loudspeaker by some dictatorial government stooge in a dystopian sci-fi movie.
Boston University is just enforcing what Dr. Fauci came up with back in April.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed Friday the federal government is considering issuing Americans certificates of immunity from the coronavirus, as the Trump administration works to better identify those who have been infected and restart the U.S. economy in the coming weeks.
Ya, dis is good. Der immune uber-menschen should have more freedoms.
Then the armed health police come to this girl’s apartment and battering ram down the door looking for someone with a fever.
More than 70 people have been arrested in Melbourne, Australia, for flouting the state’s stay-at-home orders to attend an anti-lockdown protest.
About 250 people went to the illegal protest – the second one this weekend.
Protests are non-essential.
Melbourne just came out of 111 days of lockdown. Don’t worry. Someone will get the virus and they will lock down all over again. Their quarantine procedures actually exacerbated the problem.
Victoria’s second wave is almost entirely linked to the hotel quarantine program.
What has now been established with a high degree of confidence is that, in May, coronavirus spread from two hotels – Rydges on Swanston and the Stamford Plaza. As Prof Ben Howden of the institute explained, of the 1,837 cases of local transmission sequenced since 8 May, 99.8% came from just three “transmission networks”, with no evidence of any other clusters. One network was from Rydges and two from Stamford.
About 90% of cases in the state since May originated at Rydges and 10% from Stamford, both hotels used to quarantine people arriving in Melbourne from overseas.
Cramming several sick people into a hotel created a hotspot, which got had a leak, and that spread the infection. No matter what you do, you can’t lock down an end to an airborne pandemic. It delays transmission, but it won’t stop it.
Now here is the really scary part of this article.
Australia’s mandatory 14-day quarantine for returning overseas travellers is credited as a key reason why the country’s coronavirus response has been internationally impressive. A meeting of the national cabinet on 27 March decided on hotel quarantine with the states and territories to implement it “with the support of the Australian Defence Force and the Australian Border Force where necessary”, as senior counsel assisting Tony Neal QC summarised it.
Victoria controversially used private security guards to secure those quarantined, and this will be picked apart by the inquiry next week to determine whether it made any difference to the second outbreak or if other factors were as important.
So when it spikes again, Australia will be tempted to roll out the army to assist with the lockdown.
Do you want proof? How about this insane headline?
After months of lockdown, the country eventually removed its restrictions due to no cases being reported. The country then experienced over 100 days without COVID-19. Life in New Zealand went back to normal. People ate at restaurants, went to rugby games, and caught up with friends, said Timothy Fadgen, associate director of the New Zealand Public Policy Institute.
Two days after the 100-day milestone, however, four new cases of coronavirus emerged in Auckland. By the end of that week, Ardern announced a second round of lockdown for the city.
Give them another 100 days and they will lockdown again.
Europe is jumping into a second Lockdown with both feet.
Germany and France both announced new four-week national lockdowns on Wednesday night. They followed the Czech Republic and Ireland, which put country-wide restrictions in place earlier this month. Spain and the United Kingdom could be next.
Under the new rules, people will only be allowed to leave their homes to go to work or school, for a medical appointment, to care for a relative, to do essential shopping and to exercise. Non-essential businesses, restaurants and bars will be closed. Like in the spring, they will need a certificate to venture outside.
Holy fucking shit!
The only thing fictitious in the movie is a 50% mortality rate in an airborne virus.
Permanent lockdowns, immunity certificates, travel restrictions, martial law, law enforcement raids looking for sick people, public quarantine centers that turn into vectors for infection, human interaction only by internet contact…
All of that is real and most of that in the last couple of months.
At this rate, by the time this movie hits theaters in 2021, you are going to need your proof of immunity to your local Lockdown Director to get your paperwork signed so that you can have a government-approved non-essential activity pass to see it.
