Thoughts in the Age of Covid-19
If you have lived in the city for under
5 years and have decided to leave New York for a non-legit reason (“I
wanted a yard to play in”) you forfeit your apartment and it will
be given at a fraction of the cost to an essential worker or true New
Yorker who could use it. You do not get to come to the city and use
it as your little playground and then leave when the going gets tough
and leave the rest of us to die. This also goes for the rich who
retreated to their country homes. You want to ride out the crisis in
your beachfront property that's fine. Now give up your NYC showing
off how rich and cool you are apartment to someone who actually
deserves it. If anything an upside to this crisis will be rents
finally trend downward and make the City a little more livable for
the rest of us.
If you are not wearing a mask outside I
get to punch you in your dumb fucking face with a disposable glove.
If you are wearing a mask but it isn't covering your nose and mouth
(dangling off your chin) outside I get to punch you in your dumb
fucking face twice with a different disposable glove.
As predicted the break out TV. stars of
quarantine are: Jimmy Fallon's children. They are hilarious and I
will gladly watch them disrupt every monologue and comedy bit Jimmy
attempts.
The closest I will ever come to being
an astronaut is when I sneeze in my mask and just have to let it sit
there and bask in the grossness. I think of Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin and ponder how they dealt with this annoyance and how in this
moment we are all one in the same.
Walking around with my mask after
brushing my teeth and gargling mouthwash results in a very pleasant
and long walk. Walking around with my mask without doing these things
results in a stroll around the block before passing out.
After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
fire, the community rallied and formed a committee on public safety which
turned into political reforms and laws and regulations getting
passed. We need the same after this disaster and cannot return to
pre-pandemic ways. A universal basic income and universal healthcare
seem like a good place to start. A focus on preventative measures
instead of reactionary measures also would be nice. Who knows perhaps
a push to pay workers more than they would make on unemployment would
be nice.
Maybe just maybe enough of these elusive “suburban white
women” and “fierce independents” will finally realize that
maybe the best way to help get back to a new normal quicker will be
to not give Donald Trump a 2nd term.
Things I was looking forward to that
Coronavirus ruined: Gerrit Cole leading the Yankees to World Series
28, seeing Bob Dylan for the 31st time, and performing my
beloved Tour Noir NYC for tourists and New Yorkers alike.
