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September 9, 2020 at 3:10 PM in reply to: o/t The Great Reset — COVID-19 and the riots part of a larger plan? #819590September 6, 2020 at 10:05 AM in reply to: Interesting COVID numbers article – Pigg thoughts ? #819553
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ParticipantWe never had a hard lockdown in the US … even in NYC in March-May, there were no travel restrictions to speak of, parks were open, many stores were open, de-facto outdoor dining and bars existed.
Sweden didn’t have it right. South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan had it right … “soft” lockdowns combined with contact-tracing via apps, zealous testing programs, widespread mask use, etc. I don’t get why so many people are getting their titties in a bind about mask use here in the USA — it’s the socially least costly way of controlling viral spread.
ParticipantCoronita – what don’t you get? One may want to be independent of having to work as soon as possible, not when they’re 60 or 70, with bad knees and health problems. Did very well with COVID and will likely do even better in the future … airline, transport, and travel stocks are still beat to fucking hell and will likely pop when a vaccine is announced. Property in urban areas that I like will also likely take a fucking in the next year. Estate sales, coming riiiight up. I like condos, but they’re out of fashion for now since you can’t socially distance as easily.
ParticipantSee, I don’t dream of being a better person. I want to spend my life in a 1-bedroom apartment that I can sublet in summer and go backpacking. I lack aspirations. I’m like The Stranger … the world is just a moving diorama for me.
ParticipantWell, take housing advice from someone like that if you don’t want to spend the next 20 years with a ball and chain around your leg 😀
ParticipantIn other news, water is wet.
End of the month is always move in/move out time. Pre-COVID, there were always a couple moving trucks on my block at the end of the month — also, it was the best time to pick up “used furniture,” if you know what I mean.
Participant^^^
That assumes that the same people stay in a city forever, which isn’t the case. Historically, young people moved in, oldies who wanted to settle and become breeders moved out.
ParticipantOne thing that doesn’t make sense — pre-pandemic, people were living in SF by choice and often reverse commuting 2 hr to the South Bay. They were in SF because they wanted to be in SF, even though they could have found more space/cheaper housing closer to work. Once most of SF is reopened, won’t people still be attracted to the same things that made them want to live in SF, whether they WFH full-time or go to the office a few days per week?
Participant2 * $very_tiny_number is still a very tiny number
ParticipantThat’s basically sligtly more than a monthly payment. $500 per $100k of mortgage. If they can’t afford it, they shouldn’t be buying. It’s literally $3000 on a $600,000 house. One time payment. Would any of you pass up a good deal because it cost $603k instead of $600k?
ParticipantThe protests are a necessary and moral response to decades of over-policing and mass incarceration. If anything, they need to expand to encompass justice reform. Reduce sentences, abolish life without parole (default parole in 10-20 years unless the inmate is someone like Manson and a parole board votes affirmatively to keep them jailed). Abolish laws against victimless crimes, or at least deprioritize their enforcement.
This shows where the priorities of many Americans are — they like their authoritarianism and are happy to pay good money to not be reminded of how screwed up our system is. The violence at the protests is a real issue, but I’d argue that it was being deliberately provoked. When the random mercenary types left Portland, things calmed down a few notches.
ParticipantThere was talk of a state tax hike on unrealized capital gains, but no one is in a rush to pass it.
NYC is likely to return to some state of normalcy faster than the rest of the US, partially because we were hit so hard in the first place:
Also bodes well for a vaccine:
I’d argue that if NYC loses say 5-10% of population, it may be a good thing … the city has been a victim of its own success to some extent recently, basically until COVId. Sky-high housing prices, housing shortages, horrible traffic, useful businesses, the arts, music, etc being pushed out by “flagship” stores or high-end stores with maybe one customer per hour.
ParticipantGot it, makes a lot of sense in that instance.
Participanthey spent months with their 1 year old only being able to watch the traffic go by out the window, not leaving the apartment.
Out of curiosity, why did they do that? No US city had a lockdown that prohibited going outside to that extent.
ParticipantThe McD’s in question is about 5-10 min walk from Herald Square — cross town blocks are longer. Article is from 2015. Place is basically smack (hah!) in between Penn Station and the Port Authority terminal. It’s been crackhead central ever since I remember it.
BTW – look carefully at the “boarded up” Macy’s. I think you’re seeing what you want to see … looks like a light brown/gold display case behind a window. The dark color doesn’t occupy the entire window frame.
Same video on Youtube — it’s over two months old (early June) and the nutjobs at ZeroHedge are billing it as hot news. LOL! More proof that the real fake news comes from the right wing or perhaps it’s all about presentation…
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