NYC About-face
New York Faces Lasting Economic Toll Even as Pandemic Passes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/business/economy/new-york-city-economy-coronavirus.html
It will take a while for victims to get over the royal disdain for health of the people of NYC by DeBlasio, Cuomo and Trump who repeatedly dismissed and understated the threat of Covid pandemic, using pretty much the same PR pitches now being made for a comeback.
None of the current pack of promoters want to talk about the horror faced by and were crippled by and died from misjudgment and outright deception and lies of political leaders under sway of their financial backers, some of whom made a killing from pandemic opportunism, subsidies, tax forgiveness, easy approval of projects of all sorts which fattened wallets of a fortunate few at the cost of a great many unfortunates.
Will NYC return to anything different than before when disparities of benefits were "normal," or will it take advantage of lessons learned from the thousands of privileged escapees who fled danger while the millions remained entrapped by long-standing policies to dispense favors to the well-connected, low-taxed reaping double-dippings by exploiting the badly-handcuffed to high-taxed low paying jobs and limited health and social services.
We'll see if club-house, private dealmaking nostalgia for the good old days to be re-instituted or there will be a public rejection of the rigged casino always wins mentality, say for the new mayor, governor, president, congress, or the usual hundred-member gang gets the boot by the kick of millions cheering the downfall, and deaths, of being taken for granted.