West Village, NYC, on May 2nd 2020

The weather is awesome in the Northeast today.

Telephoto lenses make people look much closer together than they really are.

I thought the West Village was supposed to be gay?

R1 and???? Your point? Doesn’t change that there is a Pandemic.

R3 it hasn’t been gay in over 10 years. Welcome to GENTRIFICATION. Doesn’t only erase black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

"If I get the corona, I get the corona"

Just as stupid now as it was then.

R4, my point is it’s beautiful out. So go out and enjoy it. Or stay inside and bitch about those going out and enjoying it.

Either way, whatever floats your boat.

OP is clearly a deplorable! Stop feeding it!

The Deplorables are the ones going outside and not obeying Social Distancing laws r8. You make no sense. OP is saying stay inside.

There are more gays in Hells Kitchen, UWS, and the Heights these days, and believe it or not.....The Bronx! Get me my smelling salts.

Gays are scattered. There are hardly “gay areas” anymore. Straight white transplants erase them.

Clearly cabin fever is a real thing and they are tacitly, and perhaps foolishly, accepting a degree of risk. Did it excite you to add an anti-White narrative?

America is collectively over it. I know there's MANY people who are still being cautious and taking it seriously, but as a collective, Americans were never cut out for long-term restrictions, especially now that we've been inside for seven weeks and it's getting nice out.

They may as well open the country back up. The weather is finally decent and no one is going to obey shelter at home orders anymore.

Ok... let me get this straight.

Deplorables wanna go outside and end this, and you all tear them apart on here daily for it and shit on them for it and not following the rules (see the threads on Georgia, Florida or Huntington Beach), but now that NYC is doing it suddenly you’re defending this and suddenly no longer see an issue with it? Really????

Please R9! I’m not defending anyone. Just saying, OPs writing reeks of deplorable

R15, a clutch of Karens is responsible for most of the threads complaining about places opening and people protesting stay-at-home orders.

They are not the ones going out.

To be clear, R15, I personally wasn't defending it at all. Just giving my take on the collective psyche of Americans.

And show me proof these people are anything other than stunningly stupid or deplorable! You know nothing about any of them! Fuck off!

So then you understand the deplorables you all shit on too, as they’re no worse than these morons.

It's the West Village, R19.

This is why everyone who's anyone wants to live in NYC -- right, OP?

There’s not even any proof this picture was taken today... that time stamp at the top could be photoshopped.

Not that some people in New York aren’t breaking the rules, but still this thread reeks of a troll.

This is real. Go outside. You see white people EVERYWHERE.

It is like that in many places in the world as well. People aren't sticking to protocols and things are being opened up due to economic concerns. People with pre-existing conditions will suffer. And as infection rates increase again we will be back to square one. I have diabetes and an autoimmune disorder and am over 50. I am looking into home jobs and expect to be in the minority trying to maintain the social distancing as long as possible.

Georgia began reopening and their numbers skyrocketed within 24 hours. They had another 600+ cases yesterday and over 20 deaths.

Georgia is about to get Cuomo’d

[quote]Not everyone wants to live in a rat infested, overpriced, overpopulated cesspool filled with nothing but wannabes.

Aha. The real reason OP decided to post today, to continue this rant!

That's the piers. I don't believe the date.

[quote]There’s not even any proof this picture was taken today...

Actually, there is proof it was not taken today. Not one person in the photo has a tattoo, and there are enough shirtless and sleeveless shirt-wearing people that simple statistics would demand that we see at least one tattoo. In the West Village, Manhattan, 2020.

The photo is Legit and was posted by Shaun King yesterday. He wrote to the Mayor etc. about this.

Provide a link R33. I will go back to Daily News and look for the story as King writes for them.

[quote] look at who the main miscreants are. The ones always acting holier than thou about everyone else and speaking about the importance of rules and obeying laws etc. ...

How would one know that from a random photo take with a telephoto lens?

It was yesterday at the Christopher St Pier

R35 they’re white. So they have to defend the white people not following guidelines. At least they feel they need to.

If it were a group of black people the reactions on here would be VERY DIFFERENT

Shaun’s post about it.

Is this what New Yorkers do? They just go outside and sit their asses on the park?

Surely there is a coast line in somewhere they can go... Californians just drive to the coastline if they want some tanning.

These people probably think the virus won't get them. Or that a day in the sun is worth dying.

By the way, I can't believe some of you are actually shocked that people are engaging in such dangerous behavior. Really? On a forum where gay men brag about unprotected sex with complete strangers despite the risk of contracting HIV? This recklessness is not new. Just a different kind of stupid.

I have now seen a video clearly taken very recently, probably yesterday, because some people are wearing masks. Of the piers. A lot of people. It's unclear if at least some social distancing is going on because of how it is shot or how many are wearing masks. But it is disturbing. The photo still seems fake. There may be one mask there but although yesterday was warm it was not warm enough for that degree of undress. Secondly the Daily News did not report it. Finally Sean King is a known liar.

Yes. If it’s whites people it’s automatically fake. Yes.

R38 they aren’t NYers. They’re transplants

Was in Port Jefferson Village on the Long Island Sound yesterday & saw more people on the street, sitting in fron5 if she’s _ on planters than on a normal summer day. Most were wearing masks, though.

PEOPLE ARE WEARING MASKS IN THE PHOTO? WHY ARE FOOLS QUESTIONING IF THIS IS RECENT?

nice try Sveta

R43 because it’s white people. They can’t dare allow white people look bad and like hypocrites, after all, they are the ones always going on and on about following rules and listening to authorities.

They are even claiming it’s photoshopped 🙄🙄🙄

Bug chasers.

"This is America. No one tells ME what to do. My unvacxed kids need fresh air, and there's not enough air in my backyard. Therefore, we need to go to a place that will provide an interesting backdrop for my social media content. (On my instagram and facebook, I've squeezed all I can out of being at home.)

I'm an American. I will go wherever I want. Whenever I want. To the park. Shopping. Except for the office. I'm afraid that if I have to go back into the office, I will get sick. I demand to work from home from here on out. I don't think it will be safe to EVER return to the office.

I've examined the photo on King's Instagram page where you can expand it. I now see several people with masks which indicates it was probably yesterday. I revise my view, it is not a fake date. Very very disturbing. Of course most of them are young. Yes, and most are white. Where are they coming from fown there? NYU is closed.

Stop you’re fucking pearl clutching already — it’s gorgeous out and you’re not their mother. If you’re afraid of your own shadow and want to stay the f home, stay home! Stop being a nagging Karen.

And not just you BTW but a million threads like this already, not to mention the news which has taken on the role of leading NAG.

White people continue to destroy NYC.

Christopher Street Pier, 4:48 EST today - photo taken by The Daily Beast's Lachlan Cartwright.

These people are PATHETIC.

How much do you wanna bet not one of those whites is born and raised here???

[bold] Yet Another One From The Everyone Hates Us Negroes Troll

Harpo, look at dis! Dey sho is dumb. We builded this a city too.

The OP picture was proven proven false. There are gay pride flags on the poles. Don’t you gay people know that gay pride is in June, not May?

Sheeesh

R56 it was not proven false. That area has gay flags up 🙄🙄🙄

I'm at a park in Queens today, and I'm surrounded by transplants from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russia, China, etc. A lot of them aren't practicing social distancing or wearing masks either. but since they're not the hated white transplants from Ohio, I guess they don't count?

R27 It isn't possible for their numbers to "skyrocket overnight," the virus has a one to two week incubation period. People getting sick now were exposed the week after Easter.

Upon further study, this photograph reeks of fakery. There are a few people, in the background, with what appear to be masks; however, as I pointed out, the woman in the center right (wearing the black tank) has weird shading across the mask, which should be more uniform as the brim of the cap she's wearing is neither bent nor misshapen; the shadow appears to be caused by a source that does not correspond with the position of the sun as shown in shadows elsewhere (for instance, as compared and contrasted with the guy further to the right and closer to the camera, with the dog in his lap and sitting next to the guy in a bright red shirt; the shadow on his face is uniform and corresponds with others); . Further, note that all of the masks that appear in the photo are in the background, difficult to see clearly and easily photoshopped in. Finally, there are few clues in the photo that may reveal the date the photo was taken, like street signs and advertisements (and ubiquitous pride flags).

As opposed to the photo at R51, where I can see (at least) three guys with tattoos, a more diverse mixture of people, and more men with facial hair. But, alas, few masks, although the park isn't nearly as crowded and thus the people appear to be further apart.

If the photos are real, a pox on them all. And the deplorables wonder why governors like Newsom have to close the beaches.

It's not a recent picture. I live in the West Village and I walked around on both Saturday and Sunday. Most people are wearing masks.

R60 get over it. It’s real. I know it kills you to have to admit whites are hypocrites and liars and fake, but here we are.

From the twitterverse:

I didn’t expect the West Village Gays to align with the Michigan Nazis, the Florida Beach Bros, and the Orange County Anti-Vaxxers, but these are strange times.

White gays are the worst people. Twitter has been turning on them recently.

It's a lot more interesting that people who should theoretically be happily obeying the corona rules obviously don't give a shit. Vote of no confidence.

Here comes the sun king

Here comes the sun king

Everybody's laughing

Everybody's happy

Here comes the sun king.

Quando para mucho mi amore de felice corazón

Mundo paparazzi mi amore chicka ferdy parasol

Cuesto obrigado tanta mucho que canite carousel

[quote]miscreants ... holier than thou ... hypocrites

New Yorkers

PS - it’s been cold, raining & windy for months in NYC. This was the first warm sunny day of the year. People were getting suicidal.

8 months of cold rainy misery, topped with a stay-in your-fucking-house order for 7 weeks.

NYC weather is terrible.

[quote]8 months of cold rainy misery, topped with a stay-in your-fucking-house order for 7 weeks.

That must have been horrible.

NYC is a shithole.

And TikTokers have also been posting about NYC not social distancing

Let all the rich white people get sick for being so arrogant and stupid.

R72 Ma says if youz put a knife unda da bed it cutz da pain n two.

Fuck you, Boris. Go choke on Trump's asshole.

This virus is killing people. I wish we could turn back the clock and ask someone who died of this thing yesterday if they thought it a good idea that we should just get on with it and carry on like normal. Better yet, ask someone today in an ICU who will be intubated in about an hour whether we're ready to open things up because we're tired of sitting on our couches. Go ahead asshole, ask them because they have nobody there and probably aren't doing much - except trying to breathe.

Has anyone else discovered the importance of using mouthwash before putting on a mask?

They won’t be too happy when they catch the corona. They’re not black so no outrage

R75: spearmint gum!

I was at a NYC pier on the Hudson yesterday and today. There were people with masks and people without. There were shirtless people -- more of them today since it was warmer. Some were maintaining proper physical distance but many were not.

R74 if you want to stay home until the vaccine go right ahead. Otherwise, yes we have to learn to live with it and with “people dying”

The only point of staying at home was to slow the spread so the hospitals didn’t get overwhelmed. We did more than our part — and 30 million Americans lost their jobs — to make that happen. Great. Now we have lives to start reliving and bills to pay.

Probably fewer people will be wearing masks in extreme hot weather too. Doesn't make them any less of an asshole though.

And it doesn't matter how many people you kill doing it, right R79?

The death toll was recently predicted to max out at 50-60,000 people. We are likely to pass 70,000 tomorrow. Now the President says he hopes it remains under 100,000. A lot of businesses who opened when the governors allowed them are realizing they can't operate because people are still staying away. It costs more to open a business and have a fraction of prior income than it is to stay closed.

I think there will be a public reckoning when the death toll hits a high number. Everyone will be scared. I hope it doesn't surpass 200,000 before we get there.

Central Park

[quote] if you want to stay home until the vaccine go right ahead. Otherwise, yes we have to learn to live with it and with “people dying”

No, what people should be doing is staying home and practicing social distancing until the virus runs it's course enough so that the numbers aren't constantly rising every day!

[quote]Now we have lives to start reliving and bills to pay.

People like you don't care if it's someone else's friend or grandmother. You probably wouldn't even care if it was your own. This virus can strike anyone from the oldest of the old to the youngest of the young and that includes you as well. "Eh? Just another dead body! Step over it!"

There's a serious lack of social responsibility/selfishness in the United States and this virus is going to teach everyone a couple of harsh lessons.

We're all connected whether we like it or not and what we do can affect other people.

And the United States isn't special or gifted enough to overcome something so quickly that other countries are still struggling with.

R84 when do you think the virus will run its course? I was thinking things would get better by September, but I'm probably naive. Especially if we are talking about NYC.

Shut up you stupid cunts it’s over the economy is done. Stay inside. The stock market will completely crash as soon as the Billionaires and Hedge Funds unload as much as possible onto individual investors and small firms. Then riots and martial law and King Trump sets for a totalitarian ruling class and we’ll all be their slaves.

Why should healthy people in NY who are not in high risk groups have to stay inside to pacify some prissy Karens who’d rather stay inside and force the rest of us to do so as part of some weird power trip?

You can't keep a millennial queen away from his opportunity to get a tan, so he can look FAAAAAABULOUS on Fire Island this summer.

R86 that’s what I would love to know. OF COURSE responsible measures should be put in place and it shouldn’t be a light switch. But Ohio is so far doing a great shop and taking a sensible approach to reopening, which we should all be doing instead of staying fucking hysterical (and of course the hysterical ones can stay the fuck home until there are zero cases in 5 years, but stop nagging the rest of us).

Those are largely not white gay men in OP's photo. The Village is not gay any nor are the piers. It's not 1978. Those are young people, many straigy, from God knows where. This is terrible behavior. It is not race related and the trolls are race batters, as is Sean King. Central Park looks like more social distancing going on.

^baiters

Also the police need to take some action down at the piers, the space, unlike Central Park, is too small for appropriate social distancing. Or the City needs to bar entrance there.

My god you deplorables are reaching! Your president’s policies killed almost 100,000 in a month.

R93 is a Boris trying to stir up shit. Drink your vodka, Boris.

This thread illustrates perfectly the hypocrisy of the DL. If that photo had been labeled "Klyde Warren Park, Dallas. Today, May 2, 2020", the comments here would be more along the lines of:

"Adios, Texas. I've waited a long, long, time to watch you all finish yourselves off."

"Texans are very proud of their free-dumb and their wide open spaces, of which they have many, mostly between their ears."

"That's fine. let THEM be the guinea pigs."

"Leave Texas alone ... God knows it needs weedin' out."

But since it's NYC, we get:

"It’s beautiful out. So go out and enjoy it."

"Clearly cabin fever is a real thing and they are tacitly, and perhaps foolishly, accepting a degree of risk."

"Stop you’re fucking pearl clutching already — it’s gorgeous out and you’re not their mother."

"Why should healthy people in NY who are not in high risk groups have to stay inside to pacify some prissy Karens"

New Yorkers are as much Deplorables as any Deplorable who ever deplored in Deploraville, Mississippi. And hypocrites on top of it.

I wish we had an “applause” button, r95.

That picture of what was happening in the West Village today would not have been tolerated for five minutes here on the beaches of San Diego.

R97, that’s bc Newsom > Cuomo

Good for you, r95, for calling out Datalounge on its hypocrisy. I've been coming to this site since 2004 and I love you cunts, but you ARE cunts.

California is going to have riots and people are starting to ignore Newsom.

[quote]Has anyone else discovered the importance of using mouthwash before putting on a mask?

Wintergreen Altoids. Best breath mints ever, they make your breath smell delicious.

Well, given the angle from which that picture was taken and the crowds, how exactly did he position himself to snap that picture and NOT violate social distancing himself, I wonder.

At least we can all rest comfortably knowing that we'll see a spike up in new infections from people engaging in reckless behavior.

Too bad for the at risk people and the medical workers who will needlessly become sick from treating these idiots.

But, as we've cheered so many times, Darwin shall prevail.

R95 THANK YOU. I said upthread how if this were about Florida, Ohio, Georgia etc. even Huntington Beach, they would be ripping those people to shreds and wishing death on them for their stupidity, but because it is in NYC suddenly this is all ok.

Following the rules: The beach in San Diego today with the mayor at the microphone. Listen:

The middle class should go back to fucking work in the USA, not just the poors and "essentials". This has obviously turned into a holiday for healthy, childless middle-class types. They aren't going to die from Covid-19. Sheesh!

The middle class is on vacation with pay while the deplorables keep the supply chain running, the factories going, and the trucks trucking.

We are dispensable.

[Quote] The middle class is on vacation with pay while the deplorables keep the supply chain running, the factories going, and the trucks trucking. We are dispensable.

AND YOU KEEP ON VOTING AGAINST YOUR BEST INTERESTS, FUCKTARDS!

[Bold] THAT IS WHY YOU'RE DISPENSABLE! DUMB ASSES!!!!! DUUUUUUUUH !!!!!!! WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

R107, I can’t identify anyone who cares about the working class. I can identify lots who talk about it though, and they can too.

But thank God for the working class. People like us would be well and truly fucked if people like us had to work like the deplorables are now.

I might care if this thread wasn’t started by a deplorable to create division.

I used to live in West Village - a long time ago. This doesn't look like any park in the West Village.

And yes, where is the proof this was yesterday?

This reeks of trolling.

I wasn't at the piers today but I was in the Village and Soho today and yesterday, and I can tell you that nearly everyone under 35 (and there were a lot of them) was not wearing a mask. Including the joggers. And at least 70% of the pedestrians and joggers did not give me six feet of room on the sidewalk or crosswalk. At one corner there was a group of 10+ people laughing and having a good time (without masks) and taking up the entire corner.

I'm tempted to start taking photos of these assholes and posting them on twitter or some other social media. We're not out of the woods yet and they are acting like there is no pandemic.

I haven’t seen that many young people looking at & talking to each other for a decade. Breaking quarantine has made them put down their phones for 5 minutes.

You are trolling, r108.

Calm down, Karen. It’s true. We just don’t like that it’s true.

West Village hasn't been a gayborhood in decades r3.

r108/r114 you're still trolling and worse you're unoriginal. Well done, loser.

You’ll be fine, r116. Just calm down a bit and take some deep breaths. And think for yourself. Just once. It won’t kill you.

Doesn’t surprise me. People are wearing thin - even ones who have 4BR houses with yards as well as those living in 300 sq ft studio apartments in NYC. We have done a good job at minimizing hospital overwhelm. NYC hospitalizations and deaths - the most reliable stats - are way down.

I think we should still be officially closed - but if people need to get out, I’m fine with that. They are risking their own exposure. Most of them are young. I’m 53 and am probably at risk, I’ll stay home and remain cautious longer. I don’t hate these people. We need to slowly loosen the valve and this is one small step in that process - outside.

R111 That’s because most white people think they are invincible and that bad things don’t affect them.

Still more unoriginal banter r108/r117? Are you in Mensa?

I saw that behavior too R111. I was walking along the Hudson from W57th down to 23rd street and back. I was with a friend and we were both wearing masks (she had gloves too). I hate wearing the mask as most people do but am doing it, why can't they? Is it too much to ask? I also took an antibody test today. I'm curious to see the results in a few days.

"Crowds flocked to Domino Park in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood on Saturday afternoon as the temperature rose into the 70s"

No masks. No social distancing in the WORLD'S hardest hit city.

But keep pointing fingers at Texans et al.

[quote] Doesn’t surprise me. People are wearing thin - even ones who have 4BR houses with yards as well as those living in 300 sq ft studio apartments in NYC. We have done a good job at minimizing hospital overwhelm. NYC hospitalizations and deaths - the most reliable stats - are way down.

I agree. I’m an NP and was suicidal on Friday. I hadn’t been outside in weeks. I couldn’t garden - it’s too cold & the ground is wet. I can’t paint, stain, clean mildew or mow the lawn - it’s raining, it has rained every day (or night) for months where I am. I said to my husband “We’re driving to your office an hour and a half away on Saturday. You will pick up your mail. I will see something besides walls.”

Turned out to be a glorious day. It lifted my spirits. I saw young people on the streets in masks enjoying the sun. It made me feel so good to see them. I’ve missed people. I went to a supermarket that wasn’t wiped out by an influx of summer home owners fleeing city in March. It was a marvel to see all the vegetables.

I got a sunflower plant I ordered. It’s small. It’s supposed to spread 3 ft by 4 ft. If I could plant it, maybe it would reach that height & width. But it’s turning cold & rainy again. There’s no way that sunflower is going to get the size before the end of summer.

R118 and r123 speak sense. Thank you.

People cannot be locked up forever. Doing so simply delays the inevitable. Let it proceed. Let people be free.

I don't have a problem with people going outside (I was out too). I have a problem with people not wearing masks or social distancing. And many were not this weekend.

I really want to go to a garden center.

Everyone falls for telephoto lens produced crowding. People have zero visual literacy along with their shitty information literacy.

Nothing says " Hypocrisy" as does this thread's reaction from New York posters. But, who would expect anything different?

Milennials, of course

Wait. R124 r125 r123 are the same person/people all over the threads about other states going in about how stupid they are for being outside. But now suddenly they are all for it????

Actions speaklouder than words on social media.

Whilst people hashtagged the hell out of sappy sayings like we're all in this together, the reality was most people thought the lockdown response has been over the top.

OH DEAR!!! And a lot of these people are probably on Grindr trying to hookup as well!! We must stop them from defying social distancing and hooking up!

[quote] I used to live in West Village - a long time ago. This doesn't look like any park in the West Village. And yes, where is the proof this was yesterday?

FWIW, both Channel 4 and Channel 7 had cameras there and reported on it on last night’s news.

The photos are not fake.

It’s actually not an apples to apples comparison as much as you all would like to think. People in New York have been stuck in their tiny apartments for 2 months, finally got a beautiful weekend and took advantage of it for their sanity (while the majority were social distancing and following the rules). Most of the Texans etc (who live in big ass houses with yards anyway) are just trying to make a political statement about their “liberty.” There is a difference so the different reaction is not “hypocritical,” as rousing as that sounds.

With all due respect, R135, you're full of shit. Even if they just wanted to get out of their shoebox apartments, they still could take precautions such as wearing masks, gloves, etc. But they didn't because they didn't want to be bothered.

But keep making excuses for those saintly New Yorkers who never do anything wrong.

Correct r136.

The problem is not that people want to be outside. It is that they are in close contact with other people and not wearing masks.

R136 we all realized that was a bullshit picture and just about everyone I saw yesterday was wearing a mask.

Some of the old yentas act kvetchy about the whole thing but generally I think we’re good about following the rules, yes.

Oh, I see. It's a FAKE picture. Nothing like that would ever happen in NYC, the most perfect city in the world with them most well-behaved citizens that always follow the rules!

Uh-huh. I totally believe you. Honest.

Totally fake!

See this is the new insanity of Trump America. Liberal or Deplorable “if I wasn’t there it didn’t it happen!”

If you take a good look, most of those photos actually do show social distancing.

R140 every shot has some telephoto lensing and in some it's extreme. You people have no visual literacy.

telephoto lens

telephoto

So do the ones from other places like Texas, Georgia, Florida, etc. But that's still not enough to keep the New Yorkers here from condemning them all to a terrible death. THEY ALL DESERVE TO DIE BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN RED STATES!!!!!

This one has less telephoto lens. Though it's still telephoto. You can see its not catastrophic. Though there are some groups where there a few too many people sitting close. All the groups are reasonably spaced from each other.

No, R141, it's the insanity of some delusional New York DL posters, who are very similar to their native son, Donald Trump. They pass responsibility to someone else ( tourists, transplants), ridicule every place that is not where they are, and constantly seek approval in order to make them feel better about themselves. Can't you just fucking admit that some of your citizens, inhabitants of the most affected city in the entire world, have no regard for anyone else, and have made your self-congratulating ridicule of every other city where people have violated safety precautions seem foolish? Christ, no wonder you produce Donald Trumps by the thousands. Take your lumps on this one, because you deserve it. Any attempt at rationalization makes you look like complete asses.

The excuses I see from transplants... wow. You can’t make this up.

Telephoto lenses don't erase masks. Xennial said that "just about everyone" he saw yesterday was wearing a mask. That isn't borne out in these photos.

I personally don’t like laying on the ground on a blanket. The ground is lumpy and you can feel it through the blanket, also the closer you get to the grass the more humid it feels and also the dusty/pollony smell. And it takes a few days for the grass to really dry out after a rain so sitting there eventually you’ll get a wet ass unless it’s been dry for the last few days.

This is all “LOOK AT ME!” at its best.

Many of the "mobbed" beach photos were also telephoto. They are deliberately dramatic for media to get hits because OUTRAGE!!!!

R100, Newsom has been telling people to ignore immigration laws for years. Why is he surprised now that people are ignoring stay-at-home orders?

Here I come!

[quote] Newsom has been telling people to ignore immigration laws for years. Why is he surprised now that people are ignoring stay-at-home orders?

Sure, Vlad

Fact: most of the young kids in these pics will not die from Covid but they will spread it to those who will die due to old age and complications. Therefore they are being very selfish but how do you ever prove who spread what when it’s a free for all?

go fuck yourself and your right-wing propaganda, r153

R148 you have a few people here and there not wearing masks (No one said we’re perfect) but you don’t have people threatening store owners, gvt officials, over local mask wearing laws. That’s the difference between here and Oklahoma.

And Ohio.

People Are Misusing the Six Foot Rule to Continue Their Normal Routines

People are over-interpreting the directive to stay “six feet apart” as permission to do everything they’d normally do, so long as they keep a six-foot bubble of space around them at all times.

The CDC guidelines for preventing getting sick are extremely clear about staying home as much as possible. In New York, the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, the coronavirus-prevention tagline is literally just, “Stay home to stop the spread of coronavirus,” not “Stay home, unless you really want to see your friend or go on a godforsaken Tinder date, in which case play with fire and dance very close to the six-feet-apart limit, and maybe go in for a hug if you feel it.”

The CDC and most local governments also now recommend wearing a non-medical mask and maintaining a distance of at least six feet when in public, a directive some people seem to have misunderstood as an “either/or” situation. Just like wearing a mask out in public doesn’t replace social distancing, going out of your way to see friends, even from a “safe” distance, doesn’t replace the foremost advice to stay home as much as possible. Some combination of misinterpretation and flat-out ignorance of these guidelines, which are only meant to keep you and others healthy, is what led to reported overcrowding in public parks all last weekend.

I'm wondering if 50% or more of very social young people picked this up January-March. I bet you'd find 50% with antibodies if you could test. Certainly NY residents, and urban colleges on both coasts. I think it raged through European colleges from Dec-March making little dent in their health. They probably spread it around during their early, if even noticed, infections.

I live in nyc and saw so many people not wearing masks and not social distancing over the weekend. It’s every age group, every race, every gender (ok, I didn’t see any obvious trans out and about). Basically, all of these people are saying “my comfort is more important than your safety.”

Cuomo is usually great, but his philosophy that we should shame those not wearing masks instead of fining them is just stupid. Everyone outside without a mask should get a $500 fine and a 10-pack of masks so they don’t do it again.

R162 a ten pack of masks? From where? I can’t find any N95 masks. Those cloth things are as useful as a glass hammer.

You must be mistaken, R162. That couldn't possibly have been the case in New York City. Everyone there wears a mask and keeps a 6-foot distance from other people. And that's if they even leave their shoebox apartments at all. Because the rules say don't leave home unless you absolutely have to. And New Yorkers are notorious for following all the rules. You must have been in Louisville, or Tulsa, or Birmingham. It's like the wild west there. No one, and I mean not a single person, follows the rules there. That's why they all deserve to die a horrible death.

"Americans were never cut out for long-term restrictions, especially now that we've been inside for seven weeks and it's getting nice out."

Well, they had better develop frustration tolerance and grow the fuck up, because they're in for a long haul.

Carnival Cruise lines is starting to sail again in August.

I was one of those in Central Park over the weekend. The photos are a bit misleading. Yes, there were a lot of people, but the only ones close together were either families, couples, or close friends. In other words, people who would be congregating together in private anyway. Strangers all kept apart. Most people walking to and from the park wore masks, but once in the park, sitting down (separated), the masks came off.

Anyone who gets on a cruise this year needs to have their head examined.

R167 your story keeps changing.

[quote]But that's still not enough to keep the New Yorkers here from condemning them all to a terrible death.

It's not all NYers. Most don't give a flying fuck.

From what, R169? This is the first post of "my story" on this thread.

New Yorkers aren't getting shit for not wearing masks or social distancing as much as for the " holier than thou" attitude that many of you took over what was happening in other cities, even though you have ( by far) the highest rate of infection in the world). " They're from a red state, they should just die." But who's dying? New Yorkers. So, on a nice day, when you are doing what is being done around the country in going outside and perhaps violating social distancing, we get," Oh it's a media telephoto lens to make us look bad. But the people from red states are stupid and deserve to die for doing the same thing that we are doing." You deserve the shit that you are getting. Take it and move on.

R135 That was hilarious. It was like Archie Bunker ranting about Chinamen.

Is xennial the off-brand YMF?

Pictures are credited in local NYC news media as being taken on third of May.

Also NYC Is no different than elsewhere in nation atm; there are scores of nosey busybodies whose life work is monitoring and informing upon those breaking social distancing rules.

Such persons have become the latest incarnation of the old biddy or man peeking through the curtains taking down everything they see, and or calling local LE to report.

[quote] there are scores of nosey busybodies whose life work is monitoring and informing

My minions!

Yes, the Coronavirus has unleashed the Karens in full force.

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Many NYC residents, especially inhabitants of Manhattan live in rather close quarters.

Average studio size at 550 square feet, and one-bedrooms begin at 750; even there you have many units that are somewhat smaller. Add to this a good number of persons share their households with one or more persons. None of this normally matters because people are out a good part of the day (work, school, etc..). Forcing people to remain indoors in close confines for long periods all but assures murder is bound to happen. People just begin getting on each others nerves.

Anyone who has lived in NYC can tell you that first nice days of spring you see everyone hitting parks, beaches or any other public space outdoors. In fact same could be said pretty much of all large urban areas from Paris, France to Paris, Texas.

New York is the only city in which there is a large population living in apartments. Please remember that.

R181

Wrong.

Paris, London, and many other European cities have large numbers of inhabitants living in apartments/multi-family housing. Ditto for Boston, SF and many other American urban areas.

In fact cities are often defined by high density living which is achieved by multi-family housing in many forms. They can be in two-six story rental buildings, co-ops, condos or whatever, but they are all still apartments.

I think r181 meant American cities.

Mayor de Blasio announced yesterday that there will be severe restrictions on the amount of people allowed on the Christopher Street Pier, the pier next to it, and a pier or park in Brooklyn, i can't remember which. NYPD will be there to enforce.

Yeah - it’s funny that the cops can enforce the ban of street kids hanging out but not the entitled millenials. I miss the old piers that nobody cared about. You could stroll and watch the sunset by yourself without dozens of joggers and entitled people packed in around you.

Looking at pictures above it truly is a shame at how ugly some of those new buildings along West Street. Here was a golden chance to create something like Riverside Drive, but mostly nothing but glass boxes and towers. Same thing with most of new buildings along High Line some of which offer Hudson River views.

[quote]Looking at pictures above it truly is a shame at how ugly some of those new buildings along West Street.

Jokes on them. These people are paying millions of dollars for a view of the West Side Highway. At one point, Daniel Radcliffe had a place in one of those buildings. Why would anyone live there? They are tacky.

The last block before West Side Highway is not landmarked. For a long time, developers could build any crap they wanted with minimal height restrictions. I have to say, the Meier towers were well done. Stuff since then has been mediocre at best. But better than the 70s and 80s crap in some of the Village.

R187

Daniel Radcliffe has properties all over West and Greenwich Village along with other areas of city IIRC. Did he actually live in West Street area, or was it just another of his investment properites?

Have to hand it to the lad, he knows how to make his money in other ways than acting. He's following Sting and a few other Brits who've settled in NYC and are playing the RE game rather well.