No events permitted in NYC except BLM protest marches

[_ajax18]

So going to work isn't that important but breaking windows, agitating with police, blocking interstates supply trains, and getting that white supremacist Abraham Lincoln's statue torn down is. How long will this Covidiocy last? How would I know? I'm a doctor, not a politician.

Apparently politifact has determined objectively that large groups of black people gathered to vandalize and raise hell doesn't spread Covid like going to the US Open or a professional football game. Perhaps the Covid virus really is racist. You can't argue with politifact snopes since they're the unbiased source of the truth.



Bill de BlasioPublished 19 hours ago

NYC Black Lives Matter marches can continue despite large-event ban, de Blasio says
The mayor said the demonstrators’ calls for social justice were too important to stop

New York Post

Mayor Bill de Blasio is permitting Black Lives Matter protesters to continue marching through city streets while canceling all large events through September.

Speaking on CNN Thursday night, de Blasio said the demonstrators’ calls for social justice were too important to stop after more than a month of demonstrations have not led to an outbreak of coronavirus cases.

“This is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the kinds of gatherings we’re used to, the parades, the fairs — we just can’t have that while we’re focusing on health right now,” de Blasio told host Wolf Blitzer.
CORONAVIRUS LEADS NYC'S DE BLASIO TO CANCEL ALL LARGE EVENTS THROUGH SEPTEMBER

The exception came as New York’s rate of infections has remained consistent through the civil unrest over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.

A late-June study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found no evidence that coronavirus cases jumped in 315 cities in the weeks after the first protests. Researchers determined that protests may have been offset by an increase in social distancing among those who decided not to march.

Researchers reasoned the protests may have been offset by an increase in social distancing among those who decided not to march.
The City Hall shutdown will include big parades like the West Indian American Day Carnival in Brooklyn Labor Day weekend, the Dominican Day Parade in midtown Manhattan and the San Gennaro festival in Little Italy.


The de Blasio administration will also deny all permits for events in parks it believes will “unreasonably diminish public use” as well as street fairs and events stretching larger than one block or for gatherings that require a sound system.

[_Gunnar]

The fact remains that New York has done a much better job of flattening the pandemic curve than almost any other city or state in the country, so they can actually afford to open up more and loosen restrictions. The fact also remains that black lives really do matter, and what was done to George Lloyd and too many other black victims of selective targeting and unequal treatment of blacks by racist cops is absolutely indefensible, and ought to be protested in the strongest possible terms short of physical violence, looting and vandalism, especially against innocent people and businesses that had nothing to do with the injustices and atrocities committed. The deplorable fact that there are always a few opportunistic criminals ready and willing to take advantage of any kind of lawful protest and unrest does not diminish the justice of the cause for which honest protesters are demonstrating.

[_ajax18]

More than likely most New Yorkers have already been exposed already.

[_Icarus]

More than likely most New Yorkers have already been exposed already.

Based on what evidence?

[_Some Schmo]

Covidiocy... Trump Derangement Syndrome... A threat to America...

Strange how the right is so good at unintentionally describing themselves. It goes on and on.

[_Some Schmo]

Awesome.

[_Icarus]

More than likely most New Yorkers have already been exposed already.

Fewer than 800 tests came back positive in New York out of more than 73,000.

Not even five percent of the state has been exposed.

[_EAllusion]

There are serological estimates of New York that are a google away. It is not "most people" or any where near that. Herd immunity is in the neighborhood of 3 quarters of the population depending on how contagious the disease is. Epidemiology is math, guys.

[_ajax18]

Awesome.

It's the Bolshevik revolution in the US. Instead of everything named "bourgh" being change to Leningrad or Stalingrad, everything will be renamed Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson Boulevard, and Al Sharpton Boulevard. Abraham Lincoln will be eliminated from the history books unless it is to point out that he's a white supremacist. I can't help but think my ancestors are chuckling at that in the spirit world. Another 200 years and Obama will be remembered as a white supremacist.

[_ajax18]

There are serological estimates of New York that are a google away. It is not "most people" or any where near that. Herd immunity is in the neighborhood of 3 quarters of the population depending on how contagious the disease is. Epidemiology is math, guys.

Are the ICUs over capacity in Florida? When are we going to see the massive increase of young healthy people on disability due to Covid? More positive tests do not necessarily mean more deaths.