NYC Four Letters Virus
How 700 Epidemiologists Are Living Now, and What They Think Is Next
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/upshot/epidemiologists-virus-survey-.html
Busy sidewalks and streets and construction sites on Manhattan's Upper West Side may indicate why there's a surge in virus cases.
Forget expecting social distancing, properly worn face masks (if any), respect for other's health needs, giving way to rushing moms and toddlers, sidestepping idling teens, zigzagging through building barriers and outdoor eateries and packed spewing vehicles heading out of town, across town, downtown, awaiting a hire call.
In this melee hardly different from days before Covid, pellmell hell rules over angelic gov warnings of stay home, wear PPE, keep 6 feet away, get in long queues to be tested, spit your own and dump into mail box barely making it past the thin anti-bomb slot.
Unpublishable epithets are aimed at Fauci, at Trump, at Cuomo, at DeBlasio, at Giuliani, at the Mets (baseball, museum, opera), at anybody daring to tame a ferociously maddened herd deprived of the necessary sedation of not giving a four-letter epithet.
Still the wandering wildebeests are serenaded by screaming ambulances, fire trucks, squad cars, air horns, bike squeeks, suburban-dreaming MDs honking madly to get on West Side Highway to bucolic spreads across and beyond the Hudson.
Water sampling stanchions measure the purity of underground supply, but there are none that sample the homicidal air floating head high throughout the city, only clue to the terrorism are quaint messages on LinkNYC spy kiosks to wear a mask, when best to shop, make free calls, all A-OK.